Two Days in Singapore - Day 2

Day 2 was a lot less hectic than Day 1.

As I didn't take my passport when buying the laptop, we went back to the Funan Digitalife Mall to get our GST refund.

Kim then decided that she MUST have a two-faced watch. (?)

OK, a watch with the time where you are on one face and the time somewhere else on the other. Yes, I know you can only be in one place at a time - must be a chick thing.

More advice was needed so we wandered over to a tourist information booth and ran into a real night area. Bars, cafes, clubs, etc. right on the water:



Most of the places were closed but this place looks like it rocks when the sun goes down. Pity we won't be here to find out.

Got directed to Chinatown. (Strange label, that, for a country that is dominated by the Chinese.)

No cigar in the People's Park Centre but struck gold in the People's Park Complex.

A bit of haggling later and here it is!



We just hung around for the rest of the day - courtesy of a very late checkout by the nice people at Hotel Asia - hit the Newton Circus Hawker Center again and buggered off to the airport for another awful long-haul flight.

Impressions of Singapore...

Hot & wet. As the man said; good, if you're with a woman - not so good if you're in the jungle.

Very hospitable place. Almost everyone speaks English (not that that is a pre-requisite for hospitality but it makes my life easier), everyone is friendly and people go out of there way to welcome you.

Clean - a little over clean, if you ask me. Yes it's sterile but at least you're not picking your way through garbage. As for the chewing-gum thing; you can buy gum and you can chew gum, but you can't sell gum. Just like a 'war-on-drugs' apologist, they are going for the dealers, not the users.

Tourists are very well catered for. The public transport works (which is a LOT more than you can say for Sydney), the places you want to visit are easily accessible and very reasonably priced.

I wouldn't want to live here (Actually, that's not true. I could live here for a few months.) but it's definitely worth a visit. You probably need at least a week to really see the place and then you can use it as a sane base for the region (fast links to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand & Brunei).