Well the press conference for tonight got cancelled :( so thats a bummer. Never mind.
I caught a hop on,hop off bus and went around the city, did a little shopping, looking around for some good laptop deals.
Singapore is really little so it doesnt take very long to see everything. its smaller than Otago, but 4 million people live here!! If you think of Dunedin's shopping centre and multiply it by at least 300 then you have Singapore shopping. These people love shopping and they love food!!! Shops are open till late every day, some malls are open 24 hours. These people are crazy, and its not like the shops are quieter in the middle of the night when people are supposed to be in bed, but in fact they are busier.
When i was here last time i tried many differnt foods, the people living here are mostly a mix of Malay, Chinese and Indian, but of course there are other asian's here as well. My favourite food here is Indian Prata and Teh Tarek. Prata is like a tough pancake with many differnet fillings like egg,or cheese of chocolate or anything you like, and Teh Tarek is tea, that they make a special way, by heating it and pouring it from up high to cool it down a bit and put air in it. Its quite sweet and tastes good!!!
Sat Jan 21
Ive been watching Singaporean television at the Hotel that im staying at. The Gallery Hotel, where i painted one of the rooms, they were kind enough to let me stay here for free!! I walked along the river to a Funan mall, it has lots of electronics etc.
I bought a laptop today, a very nice, enthusiastic Chinese man made a very convincing sale!! He copied his favourite song onto for me, 'Drop it like it Hot' by snoop dogg, and he did a funny song and dance for me, if you can imagine a middle aged chinese man singing and dancing to black rap with funny English you can imagine it was quite amusing!!!
I went to a hotel bar to watch a football game with Hasan, a guy i met from CYX, him and his friends are football crazy, they support Arsenal, but sadly they lost that night....
Sun Jan 22
Today i met Eugene and Huong for lunch, it was good to catch up with them, they are cool. Eugene is a Singaporean Chinese guy, we were partners in the CYX finals. Huong is Vietnamese, she is studying in Singapore, such a cutey!! (thats her and I in opp. photo)I couldnt really catch up with anyone else they were all working very hard at school!!! Design and architecture students work very hard here, puts us to shame really.
I went out with Hasan and his friends to a seafood villiage for dinner. We drove across the border into Johor Baru, Malaysia to eat some food and then drove back again.
It was quite a differnt country from Singapore, there are no slums in Singapore... road conditions aren't brilliant there, Singapore has the lowest crime rate in the world...The seafood villiage was a new experience i tried some things i had never tried before!!!
And now i have a Malaysian stamp in my passport :)
Mon Jan 23
Today i had to check out of the hotel, so i slept on Hasan's couch, because he lives right by the airport. He lives in a condominum villiage. i watched myself on the Arts Channel for the Chronicles of the CYX. It was like reality tv, showing us working on the rooms during the competition, so that was fun :)
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