Singapore - A Day

Saturday - 18/Sep/2010

The day started pretty much with Vineet waking me from slumber. I was made to rush, for I was told I was in the nick of breakfast timings. The breakfast was filling with my due share of potatoes, toasts, beans, cakes and juices as they found way to my belly. At 0900 we hit the road on bus 11. The walk along the Singapore river was charming, yet, was not as full of life as the previous evening. We walked on Havelock Road and hit Chinatown. Early we were at 1000, but as per Vinny baba a right time to start out to see a city. I disagreed.

Entered seven eleven and like most of others this too was run by Indian/Chinese origin staff. Got our hands on a calling card and submitted status report back to pavilion. Sitting on a roadside bench we lazed, we yawned, admired colorful dragons as chinamen opened up. A decent time they took, so  a cup of coffee at Mukdona (McDonald's) was followed closely by Chinatown luk-c luk-c.

Wanderers that we were, we decide to walk to Marina Bay Sands and Vinny baba having lost our trustworthy map, we were nowhere in no time. Deciding not to take risk of previous evening (where we kept on making circles around the same block), we took a taxi. Marina Bay Sands impresses with its architecture, a ship structure housing the casino resting on top of 3 hotel towers. It inspired its due share of gasps and awes, not to mention the huge expanse of its shopping mall. All the walking in sunny weather by this time had taken its toll, as we took the less adventurous option and hopped into a taxi to our hotel.

Two hours of sleep, one hour of talk and we were again walking to AudioHub in Novotel. Check up on electronics and bargains, a crepe to eat, back on road an onto the path alongside river. Get hold of a table at a decent riverside Italian joint and have a nice fix of ITALIAN dinner, washed down with Tiger. Walk, walk, walk, cross the bridge, back enter hotel, elevator, room, room key, enter room, throw around stuff, take shower, hit the sack and call it a day.

The day called Day 1.