I'm in Singapore

So what do you do when you turn 33? Well if you're me you jump on a plane and head to Singapore for the weekend. This is a win-win situation on a number of levels -- I get to use the Virgin Clubhouse at Heathrow for the first time, I earn a bundle of airmiles, I get to have a weekend of tasty food and I do bit of shopping.

The 'Clubhouse' experience was very cool -- I had about 4 glasses of champagne and a rather tasty 'Clubhouse' burger. My flight over to Singapore was uneventful but as long as ever. The earlier champagne consumption came back to haunt me a bit as I had a bit of a hangover type headache going on (well it wasn't just the champagne, I think the Tiger beer and red wine might have also had a hand in it).

We arrived early in to Changi airport and I was in a cab and on my way to the Pan Pacific hotel in no time at all. I checked in to the hotel and wondered why there were loads of tall, athletic girls in the lobby. It turns out there is a badminton tournamont going on and a few of the teams are staying in my hotel -- bonus!

I showered and then hit the 'mean' streets/shopping malls of Singapore. My credit card hasn't had too much of a battering yet, but it's only a matter of time! I was very restrained on the food front -- I had a curry puff and a popiah for lunch/afternoon snacks. I was saving myself for Satays later!!

The satays were good, but probably not the best I've ever had from Lau Pa Sat. Also I was sat pretty close to one of the stalls so had to put up with barbecue smoke wafting in my direction and some atrocious Malay radio station. Nevermind, the jug of Tiger still went down pretty well!

After Satays it was the, almost traditional, sweaty walk to Brewerkz for a couple of refreshing beers. I also had the added 'pleasure' of watching a couple of EPL games -- shame one of them was West Ham v. Bolton. Brewerkz was still 'buzzing' after the earlier derby match (and I'm not talking about Bedok v. Kallang). Far too many United fans. It'll be interesting to see how amny people are out supporting Chelsea or Arsenal tonight.