Visit of Singapore.. again :p
Last weekend my sister's boyfriend came to Singapore to visit me. As it was Chinese New Year, and both didn't have plans for the long 4 day weekends, we agreed to meet and spend CNY in hot Singapore.
The weekend was quite nice, although he might think I tried to make him drink too much
He arrived Friday 12 around 9-ish. The bus trip seemed to go quite well, as t was this kind of luxury-but-still-cheap buses that do the link between KL and Singapore several times a day. Besides the trouble to find each other (first I was waiting at one bus station, but the bus driver decided to go straight to the departure bus station due to some delay, then once at the other bus station it was over-crowded by people trying to get out of Singapore), we went to New Asia Bar (bar in the 74th floor of the Swisshotel building, breath taking night view of Singapore) and had several drinks. Seemed more happening than usual, even if it was full of expats. as we both had busy week, we went back home around 1am and took a cab back home.
Saturday was spent visiting the city (ChinaTown, BoatKey, Clarque Quay and the huge Margaritas in Cafe Iguana, Raffles, small boat trip up to the esplanade,) and the CNY night was spent out in the city. For the last part Izzy joined us (very good friend of mine, always interesting conversations and event when I meet her): bottle of wine in the Wine connection near Double O, then we went to Stereolab, as she had managed to put herself and 2 guests in the VIP list. Interesting night spent dancing on good vibes and some (too many?) jugs of Vodka something. Dennis (my sis's bf) left around 4am, Izzy and I stayed a bit longer and enjoyed some drinks at her place. Later, I went back home and had a good shower.
Once home (noon Sun), I accidentally woke up Dennis (sleeping in my room), so we decided to continue the visit and chillout in Sentosa, the artificial beach of Singapore. Not such good choice: once in VivoCity, where we have to take the monorail to reach the island, we found out that it was the opening day of the Casino over there, hence the 2-3h queue to get there. In order to avoid the queue, we decided to get a cab to there, even if it was 2 times more expensive than the monorail tickets (time is money anyway right?). Finally in the island, we settle down near Cafe del Mar, where Izzy joined us after a while. Before leaving we had some drinks in one of the beach bars over there, as we couldnt resist the good music.
After managing to get out of the island (yet another queue), we had some food in Food Republic, Vivocity, before leaving for the night safari.
Night Safari was ok, although not as exiting for me as the previous times (I've to reckon that after doing it several times it has lost a bit of the magic). Once finished, we took the bus back home and went to bed early, for the first time of the weekend.
Monday was spent walking around the city too: all the way from Somerset to the Botanic Garden (in order to see Orchard road). It was my first time to the botanic garden, and was surprised how nice it was; very calm, the plants are very beautiful and colorful, and the Orchid garden was amazing. Spotted a very promising restaurant where I will prob invite some girl at some point. The "Cool house" was very nice also, kind of amazing that they manage to create such a micro-climat inside the garden (must cost a fortune...).
After the botanic garden, we headed home to get a well deserved shower and prepare for the night outing: a friend of mine, Vani, invited us to her flat among other friends to have some drinks and watch a movie.
The night went well, even if the movie was quite weird. It was nice to meet her again after so long time (I meet her randomly in a friend's farewell party, but have been meeting her several times since then).
The day after we didn't do much, we went to Bugis, the fountain of wealth in Suntec city. We headed to the bus station later only to find out that his bus had been cancelled and he had to take the one 2h later. After some drinks (coffee and thé, no more alcohol for the weekend! ), he left Singapore. Hopefully with good memories!
I'm sorry, there will be no photos: I've either lost or forgotten my compact camera in my last Europe trip. Anyway, the camera was all broken and the photos were all blur, so I guess I'll buy one soon
I'll update this post if I manage to get Dennis's pics somehow :p
The blog is back!
Hi everyone!
After 1 year and a half of inactivity, change of hosting service, I've put the blog back online.
As you can see, there is nothing much inside anymore: I've lost the backups of the site when I cancelled my previous hosting service.
This blog will allow to stay connected somehow with my friends and family, as I'm living quite far away from them, and the time difference makes phone calls difficult.
In order to be more motivated to write entries, I'll only write in English (English and French previously). I reckon I stopped blogging last time because it was very time and brain consuming to write the entries two times.
There is going to be a lot of changes in the blog style soon, as fast as I can find a suitable minimalistic theme and the logos I used to have in the previous blog.
I'll post another blog entry once all the changes are done!