The First Week and Weekend.....

My first week was hectic to say the least. Landing on the Monday night, then having to be at work at 8 am the next morning, all because JD was in town.....

On Thursday I was told I was no longer in the Hyatt Hotel, much to my relief, as I had a condo.
The condos are the 'C' shaped building with the swimming pool at the bottom left, the Hyatt the crescent shaped building on the right.

I moved in on the Saturday. This meant my first, of many, shopping trips to Ikea in Singapore. It was then onto Orchard Road, the Oxford Street of Singapore as Hadley and Matt, the two I was with, wanted to look around the Apple store.

After coffee at Starbucks we went to the Night Safari. This was wonderful. They drive you around on an electric open bus, so you can see all the animals from a safe distance, but not through fences. They use ditches, hidden fences, and good old electric fences to keep the animals from eating you, and each other. All the enclosures have low level light which is as bright as a full moon, so the animals are not disturbed by it. It is definitely worth a visit.

Sunday involved being woken at 9 am by kids in the pool, you get used to it, NOT, followed by an interesting trip to Giant, the local supermarket. I am sure every Malaysian woman in the place peered into my trolley to see what a white man eats. Actually there was not too much food in the trolley. I bought essentials like, washing powder, floor cleaner, loo rolls and beer. There was one comment from the mother of a young boy who insisted in helping unload my trolley. "All this for one man?" How she knew I wasn't out here with Catherine and the kids I don't know. May be it was the beer and no sherry!