Time for the next post! Although I had a minor delay of 2 hours the trip from Amsterdam to Singapore was surprisingly good! Food on board was filling at most, but luckily I had Singapore to look forward to.
Of course the reunion with Marlies was very happy ('masaya' as we would say in tagalog), it's really good to see her again! Now let's see if we can stick together for the coming 4,5 months :)
Singapore was great! I didn't really know what to expect from it. I knew that it would be clean, cosmopolitan-like, very organized and that the food would be good (all true), but I knew little of the people, which, by the way, is still the case. Four days is just not enough! Some things stuck out though. The food, oh the food!! Good food is never far, looking in any direction a food court or hawker center is always near, if not follow your nose. Unfortunately (fortunately??) the capacity of my stomach is finite. If it were up to me I would have sampled everything Singapore offers, but four days is just not enough! China Town and the Muslim Quarter were very.... well, Chinese and muslim, but the most surprising of all ethnic groups were the Indians in Little India! The people and district were just teeming with life and energy!
All groups seemed to live very well next to each other, they all visit the different areas, but they do seem to stay with their ethnic group, none the less we didn't see any tension between any of them! A song from Louis Armstrong comes to mind. Why, oh why can't we all live like this?
Here is where you can find us, the receptionist is a transvestite, she (he?) keeps a lot a fish, the paintings and murials make its very homely (very 'gezellig' in Dutch), in 2 days will take the plane to Kuching.
One last thing before signing off. I had a lot of replies on a non-functioning comment box. It seems fixed, here is the deal: Click on either the title of the post or on 'comments', write your comment and comment as either Anonymous or with your name. Dutch and English are both welcome.
Malaysia will follow. Thanks for reading!! Byebye!
What's the weather like? Here it's above 0 finally :) Chico
ReplyDeleteSingapore, clean? Well, they say you get fined for dropping gum on the sidewalk.
ReplyDeleteFood really seems to be available in many places. Maybe inexpensive too, especially in the hawker center. I would have wanted to taste their tahoe recipes.
I like how your story is composed with an accompanying explanation or picture when you highlight the word.
Regards to Marlies.
So nice to read your story! As you were a fan of my blog, I can't stay behind for yours. Never read anything about Singapore so your inside look was very welcome.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy! Can't wait to read more. (I liked to special effect moving pictures... or was that me?)
Hi Chun! Good to hear you are (both) having good time! enjoy and say hi to Marlies..
ReplyDeletergds from rainy Holland
Hi Chun,
ReplyDeleteYou did it. Weg voordat ik je nog een hele goede reis en een fantastische tijd kon toewensen. Afijn, het eerste is je gelukt. Met de tweede ben je goed op weg. Geniet ervan.
groet,
Else
hallo chung, superleuk om je blog te lezen en by the way I had no idea your English is this great, impressive!!! Ik zou vanaf nu gewoon als freelance journalist reisverslagen gaan schrijven en verkopen aan een newschannel en lekker blijven reizen toch? Ik blijf je blog gewoon lekker volgen en voor nu take care!! lucienne
ReplyDeleteHi Chung en Marlies!
ReplyDeleteErg leuk om jullie blogs te lezen... krijg ook weer de reiskriebels, maar dat moet helaas even wachten: Fred en ik krijgen een kleine! Food looks good... in your pictures... sounds like a good county for me... reisze en geniet!
Greetz,
Frederique