It’s all about whom you know

It a world so far disconnected by technology, it is exactly this that can shed new light into your day and of course your future. I have been in Singapore for just over 2 months now and absolutely love. Part in hand, due to my willingness to explore, but also in my ability to communicate, even this blog as part of those mediums. My roommate Andrew knew people from Bangkok, who in turn knew people here. The results, free dinner a few nights a week for models. Check mark I will take that.

Friday morning I returned from KL to Singapore. A flash in the pan experience of a very interesting city, that has left me very intrigued for future visits, shall any arise. KL obviously didn’t want me to leave on schedule though and decided to delay my flight by 2 hours. I took part of this time to blog, although I found it very distracting and as a few have noted one particular post lacked grammar quite substanstially. My bad guys, forgive me. Zora’s was left in a bit of a bind as she had to be in town by a certain time to wrap up a group project. And to top everything the SIM card from KL had messed up her blackberry. Perfect situation, right? Nothing you can do about it but smile and take it as it comes. 

In my time at the airport, I also bought a pack of double mint gum, something I didn’t really recognize I missed. When you always have access to gum, you don’t think twice about popping a piece, following a meal when out. In Singapore, you suck on a mint, I don’t like mints, therefore the problem arises.  I also tried to purchase a bottle of duty free Johnnie Walker double black, turns out this can’t be purchased when doing the KL to SG trip.

I was very exhausted from 2 days in KL and was happy to finally get home. Straight to bed for a quick nap. The pollution in KL had also caused my chest to tighten up a bit and a cough to develop. Thankfully that is all taken care of now.  

Andrew and Leah woke up me at 8:30, through a connection we were invited to Le Noir for dinner and drinks. At even the remote possibility of getting sick, alcohol consumption is severely limited by me and I allow myself to get maximal sleep. The things you learn when you suffer from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia for the past 15 years. I stayed out until about midnight, had brown rice and grilled fish with a salsa. I was plenty satisfied with the meal and had a good time. As a matter of fact I met Kim Bassinger. Well I could have sworn it was her, she was just a model from Holland. 

Saturday night was another similar situation. Bernie invited myself and some friends out to another bar where she knew the DJ. See the more you know the better. Now if I was drinking this would have been a bonus, but might be sick = tone it down, so 2 bottles of complimentary vodka didn’t really mean much to me today. I had a blast with everyone there, just a fun group of friends hanging out. I was also invited to a bar with another buddy Andrew and Fay (his friend that I was supposed to meet up with in KL), these situations become tough, part of me wants to go out and meet new people, and part of you says go back into comfort zone. No regrets though fun either way. 

I have also started relaxing a little bit when out. Sometimes I can be a little too serious, now I have just started being plain silly. Example below. Remember I am not just being silly.

They tell a tale of a beautiful bar in the sky

As I mentioned I would be out of town for a few days, well here I am, sitting waiting in the airport for an extra 2 hours because of a delayed flight. I thought I might fill you in on the past 2 days of adventure. I realize I haven’t written about Monday or Tuesday yet, but they weren’t incredibly busy. A new girl moved into the room new door from Australia. I think she has is quite homesick and as a result can be quite negative. My goal of course is to help her feel comfortable and enjoy the experience. Tuesday night, I went bowling with some friends I met on Internations.

Wednesday became the start of this adventure though.  In the morning I hit the gym, packed, and went to a hawker with Leah. It was nice and cheap and I had 2 vegetable servings, 1 meat and as usual lots of rice. 

Upon getting back to the apartment I grabbed my bags and hopped onto the train/bus heading to Zora’s. Barbara and google maps has been great for helping me find places, even down to telling me which how many stops are remaining. After meeting up getting all of our tickets printed off we took a cab to the airport. A good thing we did, as I would have gone to the wrong terminal. As we had bought heavily discounted tickets, we needed to go to the budget terminal. It was not nearly as nice as the other one, reminded me of the Winnipeg airport.

Tiger! They must love tigers here as not only is that the most popular beer, but it was the airline we flew to KL on. I was rather surprised the number of Canadians that don’t know where or of KL. Kuala Lumpur is the largest city in Malaysia. It’s also a bustling financial area and the home of Petronas Towers. Petronas towers you ask? Ever seen the movie Entrapment? They also carried the tallest building in the world record from 98-04. And are presently the world’s tallest twin towers.

Thanks to Agoda, we booked a 5 star hotel right in the middle of downtown. It was certainly a nice hotel, the lobby was incredible. But some things felt less than the ultimate in luxury, like the TV we had in our basement 10 years ago kind of thing. Either way, the room was nice. We arrived around 9 pm to the hotel after taking a bus, train and then cab. All said and done it was about 20 RM. That is the equivalent of just over 6 CAD.

Upon the advice of the beautiful Kat, a friend from university we headed to skybar. This is an incredible bar at the top of Trader’s Hotel looking directly at Petronas Towers. The view was breathtaking and the drinks were raved about. In my completely honest opinion the drinks were crap. Between the two of us we sampled 5 of their cocktails. Each and every one of them was too sweet. There was no balance to the cocktail. One the foam was the drink, and had a terrible mouth feel. The food was delicious however. We had garlicky meatballs, cold smoked salmon and tortillas with guacamole. The guacamole was interesting as it has a slight pickled flavour to it.

After all this we headed back to the hotel to call it a night.