Published on May 4, 2006 in Singapore

I’m finally starting to feel settled down! Let me explain.

After New Zealand Ben headed back to L.A. while W and I carried on to Singapore. My flight was routed through KL, so I sat in the airport chatting for a few hours on some open WAP (it belonged to some airline too, oops). I arrived in Singapore quite late at night, and W (who arrived earlier than I did) met me at the airport. We judged the price of a taxi vs. taxi shuttle down, and jumped into the shuttle.

The shuttle ride was quite interesting. As some of you whom have read my entries know, I have had a wonderful time in Singapore. This trip started out slightly different. The taxi bus driver kept suggesting really nice hotels to stay at. Sorry driver, I have been traveling for almost two months, and am pretty darn broke. Then “less expensive” hotels. Well, what he did realize is that while he was speaking Taiwanese to whoever he was calling, somebody else in the bus could understand him. W validated my thoughts that he was less than good — the hotels would say “oh oh, $35 total” then he would say “I have a nice hotel for you to stay at for $50.” We already had a list of hostels to go stay at, so just didn’t need his help.

Upon arrival we looked and looked for a hostel, but they were all closed! Indeed it was almost 1:00am, but you would think! We took a quick taxi ride over to the hostel I stayed at before, checked in at like 1:30am, and quickly fell asleep.

When we woke up I was soooooooooo excited. Curry time! For those of you that don’t know this about me, I literally have a fetish for curry. And there is a place in Singapore where I will always eat curry — it is so inexpensive, and so yum. I can taste it now. We at there like 6 times the few days we were in Singapore.

Overall this trip to Singapore was decent, despite the rough start. We wandered around Little India, went over to Sentago (a holiday island next to Singapore, which has a super cool light show), and visited my cousin, whom I’ve never really met before. Lot’s of walking, lot’s of curry, and a pretty good time.