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Singapore-It's CHRISTMAS!!!

The flight from KK to JB, was probably the best flight I have ever taken in my life. The turbulance was violent, shaking you around all over the place. The best bit came when 2 Chinese girls screamed like, well girls, when the plane dropped by a few feet, enough to make you stomach part company with you for a few nano seconds. Ceartinly livened up the hole trip up.

I got into the air port at around 11pm. I was expecting to have to spend the night in the air port. The LP makes it sound as if the border is only open between 6am and 11pm. But, there was a bus, the last one of the day, that would take you across the border. The border went past in a bit of a blur, tierdness was setting in and I didn't see the causeway going from Malaysia to Singapore, somwhere in between the Customs posts, which seemed to appear out of the mist and dissapear again. They seem to like intresting signs out here on the Singapore customs gate it said, 'Beware of the Swingy Flapper.' On the top of a mall in town there was a sign saying' Nobody likes an Ugly butt. Please place your cigarette butts in the bins provided.'

I got off the bus at the train station I was told to get to the other side of the Island. But when I got there the last train of the day had all ready been and gone. Luckily there was an ATM as I didn't have any Singapore $s, I flagged down a cab, for a very expensive cab fare. I got to the Backpackers at 2am, and fell into bed.

It dosen't seem to have stopped raining since I have been here. Its either damp, raining or pouring, and always humid. It is the monsoon time of the year, but it would be nice to see the sun whilst I am here, may be its good trainning for when I get home.

It seems to be a shoppers paradise here. Like the Nanjing Shopping Street in Shanghi, Orchard Road is the same over here, full of expensive designer outlets and huge shopping malls. As well as that, there are posh hotels everywhere. I went to the worlds biggest water fountain in Suntec City. I think the one in Lake Geneve was bigger, but they did have a lazer light show, that bounced off the spray from the fountain. It was a pretty pour effort, none of the lights and lazers matched the music. Lots of improvement needed there. On some of the designer out lets some genius decided to design the front of the shop with huge plate glass windows, floor to ceiling. So clear and smudge free that they had to stick a very tacky signs saying 'Beware. Glass Window.' I mean, you pay somebody thousands of dollars to come up with a design thats floored on all levels. Why not hang a nice bunch of flowers off it, or a wavy pattern.

There must be some scam here with mobile phones. Everybody that I have seen has got 2. May be its cheaper to recieve calls with one company and make calls with the other.

The public transport system here is very effceint, clean and well run, everything runs like clock work, all digital displays telling you how many minuets till the next train. Advertising is all on LCD screens in side the trains and on the tunnel walls them selves. There are signs every where telling you don't do this and don't do that, and signs that you will be fined left, right and center. With all of this about, it makes for a very clean and safe city. It expensive here, and finsing food cheap enough to meet the back packer budget, is a little challenging. Its deffinielty a place to visit at the start of a long trip, and not at the end of one.

Through out all of the shopping malls there are Christmas trees and music playing every where. The last 3 days in Singapore has left me in a very Christmasy mood, and its still over a month away.

Today is my last day in Asia this year, I fly home to Europe tonight.

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