Well another one of my crazy weekends in Singapore is practically over (all in the name of getting my KrisFlyer miles balance higher). I'm sat in the airport lounge deciding when is an appropriate time to have a beer (it's just gone 10.30am).
Rather than go through some of the things I got up to I thought I'd make a couple of lists -- things I enjoyed and things I didn't.
Things that were good:
Food -- so much choice of the things I like to eat.
Weather -- it's been glorious all the time I've been here. No threat of a tropical downpour at all.
Brewerkz -- if you get there before 6pm it's a really good place to relax with a nice cold beer. After 6pm it's an expensive place to enjoy a beer.
Swimming -- it cost me a total of $3.30 to go swimming 3 times. That's about £1.65 for the use of a decent 50m pool.
Chijmes -- I hadn't been here for ages, but on this trip I went to Insomnia a couple of times for some tasty Filipino San Miguel. The complex is a haven of calm in the part of the city it's in.
Things that were not so good:
Exchange Rate -- pitiful at £1=$2.
Heat -- the weather was great, but it was also mightily warm! I was a perspiring mess come the afternoon.
Taxi Surcharges -- these make a taxi from the airport on a Saturday evening not such a bargain.
Football -- watching Spurs mess up in their quest for the Champions League whilst being surrounded by glory hunting Liverpool fans.
Luxury -- more specifically the general move 'upmarket'. I guess Marina Bay Sands is an obvious example, but things like the redevelopment of Clifford Pier in to a luxury hotel also comes to mind. They better not mess with places like Lau Pa Sat!
CNN -- there Royal wedding coverage was just too much for me to take any longer.
Still not quite time for a beer..........
