This is my last night in Singapore. I’ve been here for 2 months and I want to come back here again as soon as I can. However, there is only one thing I could do without and leave behind, it’s the humidity! I’m constantly sweating no matter where I am. You’d think after two months that I’d get used to being constantly wet, but I’m not.
Yesterday, I pulled out my trainers, which I haven’t worn since I arrived in Singapore because I was told I wouldn’t be able to enter in all the 5 star hotels with sandals. But, I was given incorrect information, because it turned out that there were a lot of sandal wearers in the hotels I visited. See I like to have drinks in the posh hotel bars, even though they’re expensive, I prefer the crowds that hang around the better hotels. Even though my Singapore boutique hotel had a nice bar, I still wanted to check out other bars and meet new people.
I met a guy who lived in Singapore all his life and I spent a few hours listening to him tell my all about Singapore. He told me about how Singapore requires everyone to do at least 2 years in the National Service. I thought this was sad, I mean, I couldn’t imagine being forced to spend 2 years being told what to do. This made me really appreciated living in the United Kingdom. After my few hour education on Singapore, we went to watch England get knocked out from the World Cup because of a few penalties. That really sucked. But, what I could tell from the crowd is that most people in Singapore like England’s Football, because it used to be a British colony.
I figured out that I must give off some kind of vibe that makes taxi’s not want to stop for me. I can actually get a taxi to pull up to me, but then once they take a look at me, they pull off. It finally took me to ask someone to flag a taxi for me, I half expected the taxi to take off again before I got into the back seat. I really don’t know what was going on there, weird. I had him take me back to my hotel, tomorrow I need to catch a flight to Perth at 6am! I guess now I have two things I can leave behind in Singapore, my second one is taxi’s!