Big thanks to everyone who chimed in with suggestions on things to see and do in Singapore. I’ve been highlighting stuff in my guide these past two days (I bought the one from the Insight Guides collection, a series I’ve been buying for a few years now — I’m a very visual person, and I have a hard time getting excited when I use the Rough Guide or Lonely Planet ones). Man, I am going to be in serious danger of gaining a lot of weight, even if I’m only there for two days. Everything I’ve highlighted pretty much revolves around food — I cannot wait to check out the hawker centers!
Another thing that’s nice is that our hotel was upgraded to a nicer one, and our flight leaves a few hours earlier on Saturday. It’s all because Yuko got angry at the travel agency person we were dealing with, because he made some mistakes (same as usual, when writing my full name, Jean-Sebastien Snow, even though I went through every letter, giving examples), and did not really apologize. I guess if you get visibly upset, they’ll try to smooth things over by upgrading with stuff, which is certainly great for us.
And as far as photography goes, I’m so glad to be using Flickr now. I’ve always had a hard time in the past with putting pics I take during my travels on this site, since this blog is rather specific about what it covers, and I didn’t feel like they belonged here (so I’d try to limit what I posted). But now, I’ll just use Flickr to share my Singapore pics. I’m seriously thinking about upgrading to a pro account.
Category: Personal
whee! i live in singapore!
glad you’re visiting, though i think 2 days is a little short. i do hope you take spicy food though, most of the delicious food here is spicy!
i think you should give the zoo/night safari tourist places a miss, and instead go explore interesting places like bugis, clarke quay etc.
just a word of caution though, alcohol and cigarettes are taxed very heavily in singapore.
p.s. i happen to have extra gmail invites, so if you need any tell me ya? since you were the one that gave me my account in the first place.
Hi Jean,
I think you should go and have a Sling as its your first time there, its also an excuse to go and soak in the old world atmosphere at Raffles …. make sure you have a browse through Etro too.
Daniel
Thanks. Got back today, and I’ll do a write-up tomorrow probably (still feeling pretty tired). Had a great time, but maybe ate too much…