WHAT kind of Soup?
I figured that before I get onto the boring tourist type blog of my journey around Singapore, I would thrill you with some of the more bizarre things that I saw / did while there.
We were on our way home from Sentosa Island and we hadn’t eaten any real food since breakfast. We went to the food court in VivoCity (the biggest food court that I had ever seen. Even with all the food that was on offer, we eventually chickened out and ended up getting Burger King). Anyway, while doing the rounds of the food court, I came upon this classy establishment.
That’s right people - it says Pig’s Organ Soup. I checked out the menu to see if it would give a clue as to which organ. They list such delights as
* Pigs Liver and Kidney Soup
* Pigs Stomach Soup
* Braised Pigs Trotter
* Pigs Ball Soup as well as
* Pig’s Organ Soup.
The pictures on the menu offer no hints as to which bit of the pig is in the soup. I’ll leave that to your imagination.
This post was especially for Magnetoboldtoo who seems to appreciate these type of things. I hope it cheered you up and made you wee just a bit…..
We Apologise for the Technical Difficulties
Our hotel is really beautiful. We scored an executive suite on the executive floor - which gave us all sorts of extras including free drinks (beer, wine, juice) in the bar from 6.30am - 11pm and free spirits from 6-7pm. We also get to use the spa/gym, the pool and the lounge free of charge. None of which we have actually had anytime to enjoy or even look like getting close to. We also get free broadband in our room. 
It appears though, that our ancient dinosaur laptop doesn’t have a network port. It does have a wireless PCMCIA card which works perfectly well with our wireless broadband at home, but the system here first has to register your computer the old fashioned way by plugging the cable in. So no internet in our room. 
We have still been able to get all the photos off the camera etc, but getting them here onto the free computer in the lounge is a bit messy, so my posts have been a bit slack.
We will be returning to normal transmission shortly, in the meantime, please enjoy this pretty test pattern.
Wet Wet Wet
The weather wasn’t very kind to us today. As we left the hotel this morning, it started raining. I thought that I’d seen rain before - I did live in Queensland as a child - but this was spectacularly wet rain. We have decided that the Singaporeans must be waterproof. Here we were drenched to the skin, despite umbrellas, and they were just wandering about seemingly dry. The rain let up several hours later - sometime after lunch, but by then the damage had been done and my sandshoes were squelching with wetness and our clothes were sticking to us in all kinds of places. At least you don’t get cold when you are wet in Singapore.
After circling the block a couple of times in the pouring rain, we finally found Raffles Hotel. The man had a local Tiger Beer and I woosed out and had a Virgin Sling. It is really beautiful - but watch the hip pocket. The bill for those 2 drinks was nearly $35. But the atmosphere was good and we got to dry off a little.
Since it was still raining, we headed indoors to the shopping centres. We did manage to get most of our shopping done despite the traders and hawkers distracting us by physically dragging us into their shops to try and sell us something. After a while we developed a “don’t make eye contact” rule, but I felt so rude - they are only trying to make a buck.
In the evening, we headed down to Marina Bay to catch the Singapore Flyer. At 165m, it is 30m taller than the London Eye. This was one of the photos that I took from top, pretty isnt it? The views were pretty spectacular.
It appears that I am having problems uploading my photos to Flickr, so those of you who are waiting for the pics will have to wait a bit longer.
