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Singapore and Malaysia

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    12. november 2018
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    Arrived in Singapore

    12. november 2018, Singapore ⛅ 26 °C

    Made it to Singapore after a 12 hour flight from Heathrow. I actually managed to sleep on the plane for about four hours and binge watched Netflix, not things I do very often.

    Went for a quick stroll around the area when I arrived and had some food. I kinda like it here, just need to plan tomorrow before bed...Læs mere

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    Asian Civilisations Museum

    13. november 2018, Singapore ⛅ 26 °C

    Visited this museum and thought it was really interesting. It had loads of Chinese ceramics that were found in a shipwreck, then talked about how trade impacted on the goods that we being produced. It also has stuff on the impact of religions arriving in regions and being integrated, also locals creating things for that religion even though they don't believe in it. It was really interesting to see and read about.

    Highlights though, for the wrong reasons... awful drawing of a bird on the Chinese ceramic bowl middle left (middle right is how it's done), upside down skull cup on top of three smaller skulls, and Groot.    Læs mere

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    Merlion

    13. november 2018, Singapore 🌧 29 °C

    So apparently the Merlion, a symbol of Singapore, was made up by someone on the tourist board. They made it into a fountain and it is ranked in Japan as one of the top three 'major disappointments of the world'.

    A Singapore must-see!

    Had a decent view over the water to the Marina Bay Sands crazy hotel at least.    Læs mere

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    Chinatown

    14. november 2018, Singapore ⛅ 28 °C

    So today was less busy and had less main sights and more wandering and exploring.

    Visited Chinatown, it was a bit early it seems, only 11am. I think most of them were still sleeping.

    Did get to visit a pretty cool Buddhist temple, the Buddha tooth relic temple no less. His tooth must have been in there somewhere. It was big and looked cool.
    Seems that for a small donation of £50 I could also get someone to do all the praying to my guardian deity for me too. Wonder how much it costs for full enlightenment...    Læs mere

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    Shopping!

    14. november 2018, Singapore ⛅ 30 °C

    Everyone knows how much I love shopping. Singapore had a crazy amount of malls, so I had to visit some. Went to ION orchard on orchard road, almost bought some clothes too.

    I did eat here at least, walked past a place that had katsu curry on the menu. Had to go in, it was called monster curry. The plate was huge, way bigger than my head... possibly bigger than my stomach, so I'm not sure how it was supposed to fit. I didn't finish it anyway.

    There was also some Disney stuff around on orchard road, and I bumped into a Salvador Dali sculpture, homage to Newton.    Læs mere

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    Pokémon in the rain

    15. november 2018, Singapore ⛅ 24 °C

    Today I was planning on waking around and seeing a few different things along with playing some Pokémon Go. Unfortunately it was raining and pretty heavy at times. So I only played so much, but managed to catch some legendary Pokémon, won't mean much to most people but people in Singapore are still cool enough to still play!

    Went to Fort Canning park, there were so many poké stops, unfortunately the top seemed to be closed. So I kept walking, saw a cockerel, more Disney things and almost bought a chicken katsu sandwich... until I realised what it came with... what's wrong with people.

    Off to Malaysia this evening.    Læs mere

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    Blue Mansion

    16. november 2018, Malaysia ⛅ 30 °C

    Started the day in George town visiting the blue mansion. It was an impressive building and was interesting to see the combination of Chinese and Western styles.

    The guide was really interesting though, she was one of the owners and not only talked about the house but also the politics of getting UNESCO listed, the eduction system in Malaysia being biased against not Malaysians, it was very interesting.

    I would really like to live somewhere where I could have a big open house with courtyards. I also feel if Alex got to choose a colour for a house, she might choose blue.    Læs mere

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    George Town walking

    16. november 2018, Malaysia ⛅ 30 °C

    Visited another mansion, this dude was also Mafia though. He had mirror's on both sides of the room so he could see anyone coming around the corner. Also had an interesting double bed so he could sleep next to his wife... but not too close obv.

    Visited some old Chinese clan jetties, houses on stilts in the water. Also saw some Street art.    Læs mere

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    Jetty, hill, and karaoke

    17. november 2018, Malaysia 🌧 28 °C

    Today was a fun day, it started slowly with some more waking around town seeing more street art and visiting some different jetties. It was very hot and the sun was out which is good weather for me.

    I then headed up Penang hill and bumped into the awesome Nguyen and Rob. We walked around the top for a bit, not what I expected at all, couldn't really get to the top and there were so many tourist traps up there. Eventually found a canopy walk through the jungle which was cool.

    Then meet up with the guys again in a bar for mocktails and karaoke... I'm not sure I've done karaoke before, and I'm sure we let the rest of the bar down, but we sang. Kelly Clarkson would have been proud of our efforts.    Læs mere

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    Malacca

    20. november 2018, Malaysia ⛅ 25 °C

    There seems to be at least two ways of spelling this place, but I'm here anyway.

    Took a flight down from Penang this morning and explored the place today. There's not loads here, but whereas Penang had British colonial buildings, Melaka has red Dutch colonial buildings.

    They also seem to have gone all out on tourism, lots of tourist trap places and a museum for everything! I could choose from history and ethnography, submarine museum, toy museum, democratic government museum, royal Malaysian customs department museum, prison museum, train station museum, chitty museum (hopefully not a misspelling), and of course the house of museums. You get the picture. Anyway, I went for the museum that looked like a boat!    Læs mere

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    Back to Singapore

    21. november 2018, Singapore ⛅ 23 °C

    Took a four and a half hour bus journey to Singapore today. It wasn't too bad, it was comfortable and was far from full. The decor inside was best described as... green.

    Have an awesome room, with a window this time. It's a loft room which has the bed upstairs with everything else downstairs. I like it.

    Did some Christmas shopping, got to see the Christmas lights in the dark, had a Nandos, then played more Pokémon Go. Ended the day near the pool, watching the lightning.    Læs mere

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    Singapore Zoo

    22. november 2018, Singapore 🌧 29 °C

    Today is my last full day (I fly home tomorrow at 23:55). I spent it at Singapore zoo and then the night Safari.

    It's a pretty good zoo, I mean there are zoos in the UK, but I mainly wanted to be here for the night Safari anyway. The white Tigers were good and they had like a million baboons.Læs mere

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    Night Safari

    22. november 2018, Singapore 🌧 27 °C

    So the night Safari is great in allowing people to see the nocturnal animals actually awake rather than seeing them sleeping in a normal zoo. It's also great for blurry pictures of animals and it's probably a mosquitos dream.

    It was really good, the trails were quiet too, I was waking around on my own for a lot of it. It was cool seeing the animals awake and playing.

    I've attached my blurry pictures... the blurry sloth bear really wanted to eat me.    Læs mere

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