Good Friday

View of the swimming pool from our hotel room. 

This morning I awoke at 8am and went for a run to the Botanical Gardens. It was hot and sunny. When I returned 28 minutes later I was blathered. Boy was it hot! Sue said I looked ill! Sue was on the treadmill in the air conditioned gym. I played around with the bike, machines and weights and then we went for a swim in the pool. We stayed at the pool until lunch when we returned to the room.

In the afternoon we went to ‘Little India’ and the Mustafa Centre. It was very busy on route. I could see Singapore being gridlocked in the next 5 years. The road infrastructure is very good but there are just too many people. When we were out last night Sue said that it was just like they had released people from a football match.

It was even busier inside the shopping centre. At least it was cool inside. We managed to buy some gifts but you couldn’t shop in peace due to the crowds. We returned to the hotel to put away our shopping and jumped into another taxi and went to the Tanglin mall area. I attempted to seek out the Internet place I used when we were last here in 2001. The place was really unrecognisable. The pace of change here in Singapore is staggering. Buildings are going up everywhere, all of them high rise. No bungalows here.

We walked up into Orchard Road. I just couldn’t find the Internet place. I gave up, the area was a big shopping city. Expensive too.

We found a quiet resturant and had a good meal, wine and a couple of beers.

No more walking around tonight so we returned to the hotel

~ by blackgoth on April 6, 2007.