Singapore Day 1

I´m at the Perth airport waiting for my flight to Sydney and I´ve got finally time to do the first real postings to my blog. Unfortunately free wireless internet connection isn´t provided here and since I don´t feel like paying I´m typing this with Word and I´ll copypaste it to my blog and post online as soon as possible.

I had a great weekend in Singapore with my friend Silja! She´s doing an exchange at the National University of Singapore (NUS) this spring and has been there since mid January. You can read more about Singapore, and living and studying there, at her blog (There´s a good story of our weekend - in Finnish)

Anyways, first I flew from Helsinki to London Heathrow and did a short stop over there before continuing to Singapore. I actually managed to get through the 12-hour long flight without serious symptoms of boredom. I arrived in Singapore at around 18 and took a cap to my hotel, which was located in Chinatown. My room was barely big enough to fit a bed in there but it was equipped with a heat conditioner – which was the most important thing considering it was +30C and really humid!

After a quick shower I met Silja and we went to the NUS campus to watch a performance organized by different national societies of international students. They had all kinds of routines – traditional costumes, dances, martial arts, songs, singing… My absolute favourite were the Chinese whose routine was a skillfull combination of jazz dance and martial arts with weapons such as sticks and swords. The local people are so tiny - short and skinny – and they look a lot younger than they actually are. And the girls are really pretty!

After the performance I was planning on being too tired to do anything else but some local and international students persuaded us to go clubbing with them. It was definitely worth it! The club was one of the coolest I´ve ever been to. It was a big and new complex of 6 different parts. We spent most of the time at a Latin club and at a nice patio outside of it. We also ate some pratas (Indian food that reminds pancakes with either sweet or sour filling) at a nearby restaurant. After 3am Silja and I decided it was time to head home, while the others stayed still at the club. I hear clubs are open till 5-6am in Singapore.