Farewell Singapore

Well, today is the last day in Singapore. Tomorrow we fly to Jogja.
Sorry for the lack of blogging.
Thursday I had one of my (fortunately more and more rare) fatiguey days. So that was about six hours of lying motionless on the bed looking at the roof, the window or my eyelids. Very glad it only happens once a week - fortnight nowadays.
Anyway, nothing to share about that day I'm afraid!

Tari had her big farewell, end of colloquium party (I didn't go because the tickets for partners were $90). Why so expensive? Because they had booze there, and alcohol costs a lot over here. She said that her and her friend wanted a glass of white wine with dinner, they had to get two each to pour into a glass to get a small drinks worth.

Yesterday Tari had her first day off, so we decided to go shopping. There is a road, Orchard Road, along which there is just mall after mall. We headed off to a highly recommended one called Ion. It was quite a trek. (3hr round trip, but walking and going into shop the whole time.)

We saw more cows!

The sign says "cows under surveillance". So either they're worried people might steal them... or... the cows are every bit as suspiciously evil as I first suspected!

MacKenzie and/or Charlotte, make sure you get Mummy to make cow noises for you =) Mooooo!

Anyway, we had a bit of a stalker for a little while. Happens every now and then as you walk along someone starts following you. Who knows what for. Most of the time it's probably innocent, other times they start doing it when they see you take a photo of something. This guy was about as inept as they come. I stopped to "tie up my shoe" and he stopped to look at a wall. A blank wall. Another few minutes later I stopped to "look at the bus schedule" and he stopped to look at the traffic. Yup, a professional. Gave up after a while, we walked past some place that had lots of cops (with machine guns of course) guarding a big gate. I didn't take a picture.

Eventually we got the the highly recommended shopping place. It was quite impressive, but useless. The stores were right up our alley, Dolce And Gabbana, Prada, Emporio Armani, Gucci, Luis Vitton, Chanel etc. We looked aroudn a bit but then started our return trip. It was, typically, hot and muggy so we kept inside the malls most of the time. Tari had a ball in Gap and particularly Baby Gap. It wasn't particularly cheap at any of these places, so to cut a very long story short, there were no purchases.

After a walk that big my foot wasn't up to anything else (other than letting me know it didn't approve of long walks) so we pretty much bummed around the rest of the day by doing laundry, napping, reading and watching TV. (Thanks again for West Wing C&M!)

Today we decided to visit Little India during the festival of Deepavali.

Quite hard to get a photo here without being a total tourist. Very crowded here once you get into the area properly. I'll let Tari tell you about her impressions when we get back, but we didn't spend a lot of time there. Lots of really colourfully dressed women, wearing all the sorts of stuff you'd see in a bollywood movie.

Although we could have walked back to the hotel then, where would the fun in that be, we had one last mall to visit to make sure we'd exhausted all chances of finding a super bargain. On the way we saw this building which I thought belonged in Ghostbusters:

I'm not sure if you can see the statuary in the photo, but it was so out of place among the rest of the city. Sorta gothicy.

Anyway, the last mall finally had something for Tari to buy. She got some Skechers shoes for under half of what they cost back home. Was good timing, 'cos we still had a half hour walk to get back to the hotel.

One the way back we took one last picture of what we found out was Buddha on a Dragon.

This is in front of the Art Museum. It's just around the corner from the hotel. You can see the orange, I tried to get a shot without any works in it, but they're doing lots of renovations/building stuff there.

Had other stuff to say, but can't remember any of it at the moment!

Don't really know when/if we'll have internet for a while now, but I'll post again when able. We still don't know exactly what's happening when we get to Jogja. There's a chance someone will meet us at the airport, but we don't have accommodation confirmed or anything! Call it an adventure.

Thanks again for the comments and emails, miss you all!

Signing off for now!

Sim.