Room with a view.

So here we are in Singapore.  An uneventful trip except for Heather's baggage not making it.  Must've got tired. 7 hours 50 mins is 2 hours too long for any flight you're not unconscious on.

Started well with some short soup and dumplings at the airport, a beer and a wine also and half a sedative so I did'n't freak out in the air.  Freak out mitigation worked, so did the extra wine and cheese.  Scoot's not a bad airline, get the yellow seats and if you can upgrade to scootbiz at checkin, it's cheaper than online.  Surprisingly business and yellow seat class weren't that full!  I mean I've only been here 24 hrs and Singapore looks quite awesome, present photo excepted.

So Heather rang the travel insurance people and they said she can spend up to $500 on essential items, clothes included.  Being christmas time we went shopping, it was a chore up until she discovered a sale to end all sales, then it was a frenzy.  So I left and am currently writing this, with the new dongle I bought to charge the bluetooth keyboard that if even we had all our luggage someone had forgotten to bring.  Bought too tshirts for $20 also and yeah, I'm wearing jeans, it isn't that hot yet.

Missed my friend Ms Jane who thought today was yesterday and after 4 hours waiting at the venue we were to catch up in, pulled the pin.  What sort of commitment is that I ask you? :)

We're supposed to go and see some artificial trees later but I'm expecting someone to arrive back with plastic bags brimming with bargains and a need for sleep,  and no actual bag to pack them in for the next leg of the journey in 8 hours time.

The other thing i noticed about Singapore while watching traffic at breakfast, is that lanes are designated by the lane markers.  Let me explain, here, if you're not driving ON the broken white lines you're not in a lane, and this is quite simply genius.  It's like being on rails, no room for error.

Oh, and taxi drivers don't understand english enough to know the landmark you are talking about until you demonstrate that you know the address also, then they repeat it back to you exactly as you said it and not in the broken english they had before and take you straight to it.  No idea what happens if you didn't know the address but I'm sure it would be expensive.

Looking forward to seeing these weirdass trees.