In Singapore safe and sound
From Indonesia, a nation of 17,508 islands, to Singapore
I spent two nights in Jakarta, the the capital and largest city of Indonesia where I met so many amazing young Indonesian people. They are just so friendly. This makes me feel Jakarta a home, at least much more than Delhi. Even just a day I left this city, I feel that I miss all the people I met, the food I ate, the atmophere I felt and the culture I experienced. The lenght of my stay is actually short, but the trip itself is just a beginning of the beginnings.
Around Asia in ten days, the way that Phileas Fogg did it around the world in eighty days.
Like many other travelers to Singapore, I really like the hospitality at Changi Singapore airport, at least a little more than Heathrow of London. It is not only about people working and running business in the airport, also the facilities that make passengers easier. I’ve got to be able to check my email on the go, make free local phone call. That’s cool! Probably this is the lifestyle of people in the real developed small country, where most brilliant people from around the globe live and work for the sake of modern living — the digital era.
During my short stay, I had a chance to visit Sim Lim Square, where most locals manage to sell big-brand electronic products. A half day is not half for me to do my window-shopping. Actually I was there to look for a MacBook for myself. This time, I decided not to get it. Wait again, for me. For quite a while that I have been looking at IBM ThinkPad, Toshiba Tecra, Lifebook of Fujitsu, but could not really find one that I like most. I’ll keep a closer look at MacBook, one that powers by Intel. If not next year, I believe I will be able to get one in less than two years. People in this small city is, as told by a friend whom offers me the apartment room to stay, about food and shopping after having high pace of day-long work. As cosmopolitans from different countries enjoy life, there is no exception of having food from their home countries. That’s what make small island a unique place. I myself was introduced to Burmese food, which I have never tried at all even though I live in Cambodia, a neighboring coutry of this isolated country.
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