Monday, January 24, 2011

5,4,3,2,1 Thunderbirds are go (almost)

OK, I'm still in Singapore but my new hub arrived (5 days late) and i managed to Zombify it with the other one, after a test ride all seems good but my paranoid mind is working over drive, i guess we'll see tomorrow.

Singapore isn't the greatest place to be for two weeks on a tight budget, as its the most expensive place i'm going to be till Europe i did my damnedest not to spend all of my travel fund here, i succeeded but still spent about an eighth of it. I didn't do a whole lot with my time here as everything cost money, typical day would go as follows;
Get out of bed around 9am take advantage of the free breakfast and chat to some fellow hostelers,
11ish brush my teeth and wait for the postman,
when the postman failed to arrive go get some lunch and walk round the shops (just window shopping of course),
return to the hostel sleep, use the internet then go about looking for evening dinner,
back to the hostel, watch a movie off the laptop and sleep and repeat the next day.

However occasionally i did make friends until they left me, first there was Joe from England, she showed me the fountain of wealth (the worlds biggest fountain)  and went up to the top of the casino which has a huge boat dropped on top of it!!! Joe left me and Rayann and Lois came along and we went to the night safari together to see what its like for wild animals to live in a prison at night!! (i'm not much of a zoo fan but it got me out of the hostel). Once i was abandoned by them Alex a German guy showed up, we had dinner together and went to the beach but missed each other theeeeeen Keith a fellow cyclist turned up and after initially driving me insane by non-stop talking about bikes, cars and cameras turned out to be pretty sound. Alex left (bit of a pattern here) and James an Irish guy showed up who turned to be my hero as the first thing he said to Keith was ' I love cameras.' James left but a mass attack of bed bugs took his place, then it was Keiths turn to leave but he was replaced with a brand new hub so tomorrow is my turn to leave all be two weeks later than planned. I hope the bicycle gods are good to me from now after a bit of a iffy start, though i think my legs will suffer having not cycled for almost a month!!!

1 comment:

  1. GOOD LUCK WITH THINGS MATE ME AND LOZ R BEHIND U ALL THE WAY!!!

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