Friday, May 29, 2009

Drinking from a bloodbag--is this DisneyLand?


I'm excited to see what the last full day in Singapore will bring! Looking forward to buying shoes, dresses, and clothes...not so much the $12.50 beers. This place is very expensive! Everything is ridiculously priced....except taxi rides. We went back to Clarke Quay last evening after learning that TEENAGERS would be at Zouk NightClub....ugh! Clarke Quay was not exactly our speed either. Too many tourists, and young Asian women looking for, well, Erik types. White rich men. BLAH! We had one beer, a 10 oz Carlsberg, at a CHEESEY bar called CLINIC. The chairs were wheelchairs and the mixed drinks were served in blood bags and you sipped it through an IV. I refused to do this..but did get a quick pic to show how sick it really was!

There is no sea access from this island


I am staying at a new 6 star property, Capella Singapore. It opened less than two months ago and is absolutely amazing. I'm sitting in the lap f luxury, yet it feels like Alcatrez. And my ATL friends, I am not referring to Miggie and Smoochie's old apt.

Singapore is an island. Off off this island of Singapore is another island, Sentosa island. That is where I am. The view is of this amazing turquoise water for miles and a few Indonesian island on the far off distance. There are also oil tankers, and construction, and the LongShoreman cranes. Loos like my view as I lay on my home beach of Long Beach. There are "fake islands" off the coastline so the resort beaches are "preserved" from the erosion of waves. I cannot even walk down to teh beach that I can see from my room because itis fenced off. I am n an island, but cannot swim in the sea. Anyone else find this ironic?