Day 1 Singapore Trip April 6-9, 2012

I just got back from a trip to Singapore with my bestie since junior high, Ayu. There, we were accompanied by Dora, Ayu’s friend who lives in Singapore. We didn’t get promo flight tickets ‘cause we just booked a week earlier. Long story short, we managed to get tickets in a quite affordable price (for a long weekend, so to speak), back and forth.

We departed from Soetta at 9.20 am, and arrived at 12.10 am (Singapore time). Next, we headed straight to Wink Hostel in Chinatown. It was a small-spaced hostel –HangOut was a lot better— but it was clean and quite nice. The shower room was similar to the ones we usually use in swimming pools and the toilets are always clean. After putting our luggages in our bunkbed-lockers, we went to Funan Digital Mall in seach of Ayu’s laptop. We got the chance to try on an egg tart in a small cake shop called Tong Heng, as recommended by a travel website in Chinatown. I also tried the curry chicken pie. Yummo!

This dude really shocked me! He was fooling around by taking part in our picture :p

Funan Digital Mall resembles a lot to our Ratu Plaza. After checking out some stores, Ayu finally got herself two laptop series to opt from. Starving, we had a late lunch at KFC. Their fried chicken’s ok, but the cheese fries was awesome! It’s fries with loads of melted cheese on top and daun bawang on top. Love at first bite. It didn’t even bother me to complain, knowing their chili sauce tastes like sweet n sour-Bangkok-sauce.

After meeting Dora, Ayu settled the payment and we went back to the hostel to drop the laptop. We strolled along Chinatown and took loads of pictures around the peranakan-cultured buildings with colorful windows. Amongst the crowded lane, we paid a visit to Tintin Shop. It was a-ma-zing! Reminded a lot of sweet savory childhood. Oh, and we also went to a fortune teller. He told me that I should stop eating, at least an hour before going to bed, to avoid any problem in my intenstine. “You have good luck and fortune. And smart…very smart,” he said. I asked about love life, then he said, “You’re blocking love from coming to your life. Give it a try, interview those men and find which one suits best. You should get marry to a man whose birth between 6-12 (June to December), otherwise if you marry one who was born between 1-5 (January to May), he’ll boss you around. I’ll give you beauty and no man can resist you.” Then, without me asking, he told me that I should stick to a career: “teaching”. “You complain sometimes about work…you should choose a teaching job that enables you to travel, because you’re a traveler. You will go to Sulawesi, and many places…then you will be happy. Or you can open your own business in printing, photocopy, invitation, name cards…you will be rich.” Whoa, didn’t see that coming. Hahahah…   

After that, all three of us went to Bugis street. I just found out that the shopping place is a 3-storeyed building. 1^st floor was packed like crazy. Dora had to go early, so we parted at Bugis after no luck in finding a spot for dinner. Ayu and I went to the 2^nd and 3^rd floor. I got a cute blue cropped top and a blue striped-ribbon ring for Ayu. I also bought Prisal (my niece) the cropped top she’s been wanting to have. Before we went back to Wink, we served ourselves a decent dinner a full set of Kaya Toast at Toast Box, Bugis Junction – yes, toast…for dinner – which included toast with sarikaya jam & butter (oh Lord, it tasted heavenly…), half-boiled egg, and a cup of hot Teh Tarik (milk-tea). The signature Singaporean dish wrapped up our first day in Singapore.