Day 1: A Shoppers Paradise!

I just returned to the hostel after a long day of just walking around Singapore. I hit Little India and Orchard Rd. Wow...Singapore truly is a shoppers heaven! Lucky thing it was my first day or else I would have spent more $$. But since I have two weeks to go I exercised self control.

It is a unique feeling being in such a diverse Asian culture after living in Japan (homogeneous society). I catch myself doing Japanesey things, such as giving little bows when people are polite to me and saying 'sumimasen' and 'hai' instead of just saying excuse me or yes in English.

Cindy, who lived in Singapore for two years, gave me some advice on places to see and food to eat. So today I went to one mall specific (out of many) and went to the food court. Food is soo cheap and diverse! For S$4 (about $3 Cdn maybe) I got this wicked chicken curry, noodle dish. It was so delicious and filling and such a great price!! Another neat thing abut the food courts are that people with little carts walk around selling sides for your meal so you don't have to more then one stall and stand in more then one line. There was a drink cart, rice cart and Indian side cart. soo smart!

There are Christmas decorations, sales in the malls, carols playing and gift wrapping but its hot and im walking around in a skirt! WEIRD! It didn't feel like xmas in Japan but this doesn't 'really feel like it either. Interesting feeling that's for sure.

well my time is up for using the internet. I have to decide how to get to Malaysia tomorrow. My options are a cheap bus that should get me there in time but might take longer then anticipated which will make me miss my flight or pay a lot more for a taxi. I am leaning towards the taxi but it is like S$35 more which hurts my daily budget. MMmmmm.,...