The lil treasures of Singapore

I'll halt my writings on Kinabalu and Sarawak, (just because I'm too lazy).

I need need to write this down now. My initial thoughts and impressions of my new home, Singapore (an F.O.B.'s Point of View) cos I don't know how much longer I will be a FOB. So I really want to know what I thought when I was a FOB in Singapore, if I happen to read this post years later.

First thing first, factual things about me and Singapore.

Where do I live? My uncle's house in Pasir Ris. I live in their 1/2 storey of their 2 and 1/2 storey (like my house)

My temporary room and doggie and his new ezylink friend.

Where do I go to School? 

-SIM. No not SIM city or NUS or NTU or SMU rather Singapore Institute of Management.

-What the...?? Its the largest PRIVATE University in Singapore.

Note : I didn't drop out of my course at HELP Uni to come to Singapore, still am will always be a UOL external student....Swt

Where is school? 

-Minimum : 1 hour 30 minutes from Pasir Ris, school is@Clementi.

Do I plan to move? 

-Yes, 12th of Oct, this Sun.

Move Where? 

-Pandan Valley Condo@Ulu Pandan Road@Clementi near Holland V

-FIRST ever Freehold Condo Development Project in Singapore (1979)

-Built by DBS

How far is it from school? 

-5 minutes (6 intranetwork bus stops)

How much am I paying? 

-A lot

Do I get my own room? 

-nope, not even sharing, TRIPLE sharing...and I'm paying? ALOT.

-but i get laundry&ironing services and occasional cleaning services.

How do I get to school(currently)? 

1)BUS (Uncle's House to EW1@PasirRis)

2)MRT (EW1@PasirRis to EW23@Clementi)

3)BUS (EW23@Clementi to SIMHQ@ClementiRoad)

SBS BUS52 to Uni

Mangrove Swarm@Pasir Ris Park@Sunset

Sabah Adventure : Days 9,10

Oh gosh, finally I'm almost at the end of my Sabah Adventure posts, but there's still Sarawak! urgghh and i promised myself to pen it all down in a 'real' diary (pen and paper) then i decided to settle for blog posts...... ok penny....one step at a time.....

Once we came back to KK, we finally went to Little Italy to eat! You know being in Sabah and all at first I thought it was stupid to go eat at some Italian Joint...but OMG, the food here is amazing, really good Pasta here......They have like so many types to choose from not like here (fettucine? spaggheti?) Over there there's everything! you can mix match as you like. I swear at least 10 different choices of pasta for every pasta flavour.... btw, it was packed...we had to wait to be seated, in KK. @ Little Italy, KK

Day 9 and 10 were lazy days. It was a Monday and a Tuesday (22nd and 23rd July 2008).
For the whole of Monday, we decided to go to one of the 5 TARP islands, so we told Vince our plans on Sunday night. He got us arranged for Monday with Borneo Beach Bums (God, I love that name!).
They operate from ShangRiLa@TanjungAru, talk about 1st class service (thanks vince!)
He sent us out there early morn in his trusty white pick-up, as usual he's downing his malt and taking in grass all day, again that same old "marijuana" record of his playing over and over again on his radio.

We decided on Pulau Mamutik, and was transfered in by a highspeed boat. (life jackets on of-course)We got snorkels from Vince, and rented fins on the island. Only one restaurant on the island, despite the monopoly, prices weren't bad at all. I got an indo-mee with egg for lunch@RM3.




























No worries about losing your things on this island, no one cares or will take anything, go swim freely in the sea, leave your things all over the beach, completely safe! (amazing place)

The waters were pretty choppy cos a storm was seeming to set in, surprisingly, the storm never came, just that the waters remained choppy and the sky looked like it was ready to engulf us. Snorkeling here was almost as good as diving (although diving is of course better) but u can see where I'm coming from, it was good despite the fact that everything is still a NEMO. Pretty good muck diving here. Shallow warm blue waters, rather high density of corals and small schools of fishes, sea-urchins (urggh) and some other weird sea creatures which I can't seem to place.

The shore-line at Mamutik is pretty much shallow all the way to a couple of meters out then suddenly there is this sudden increase in depth (a cliff in the water). But don't worry, buoys are generally placed to mark shallow and deep waters.

We swam for hours in the sea with our snorkels and fins (no life-jacket). At first, I felt like I would drown anytime (choppy waters) but later on you get so caught up with the fishes and what not, you forget about drowning and be mesmerised by its beauty.

Lazy, to be continued...