Monday, January 18, 2010

Singalingapore Weekend :)

Singapore is a micro state and its the smallest nation in SE Asia, its only a bit bigger than Vatican City. It was part of Malaysia until 1965 but it is now a nation of its own, but it imports all of its water and resources, making it an interesting nation. A large expat community of bankers etc and a highly transit stop-over point for those traveling to Australia/New Zealand etc. English is the first language and then Chinese... Now for the fun stuff:

A list about the fun that was enjoyed by Colie, Jenny, and Pom in Singapore:

1. Constant joking about how GUM is illegal there, its illegal to buy/sell/spit it on the ground, $1000 sing dollar fines!

2. SHOPPING! Singapore, unlike Bangkok (which is by far a SHOPPING MECCA in its own right, full of AMAZING hand made pieces copied from designers from all over and sold for 100th of the price) BUT Singapore has EVERY store you've seen anywhere in the world! So our favorite was this store called Cotton on... forever 21 type prices but much better quality and minus the trashy clothes just super cute clothes all made from, you guessed it cotton! We literally walked through the city by walking in and out of underground malls, malls through the metros, malls above the ground and malls that connect other malls!

3. Clean, small easy to navigate and well, Colie and I decided it is the Tampa of south east Asia, similar in the sense of size, water, and how much of the little lux type bars/clubs are on cute little newer looking strips on the water.

4. Night clubs, Zuke, pretty famous and many others stay open during all hours and produce hours of entertainment for you and your friends with dancing and people watching of course.
Colie and I found a Hooters in Singapore, how random, we've never seen one anywhere else in S.E. Asia so we had
to pose with the girls...

We also ate amazing chili crab, which are huge crabs served with this amazing chili sauce that isn't all that spicy but super delicious and it contains some egg, a red chili sauce and AMAZINGNESS, us girls decided that chili crab was pretty much the worst possible food you could ever eat on a date considering you need to wear an apron to eat it:)

We had a great weekend in Singapore and it was another unforgettable birthday weekend for me! Colie and I were so glad that Pom came, as she had lived in Sing for 2 years about 6 years ago... Here are a few more photos, enjoy!


By the river and in the background the
fountain of Merlin a half mermaid/lion

Out with 2 blondies and Pom Pom (she often calls
us the blondies, instead of our names)

Yummmmmm... Chili Crab and free wine :)

xoxo,
Jenny and Nichole



More to come:
*End of an era well a decade AKA new years etc. in BALI
*Back to BKK and BKK Bday nonsense :)
*AND SOOOON the introduction of CHRISTY to BKK (one of our 6-pack of bff's for UCF)







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