So we went to “Little India” for exploration and lunch yesterday – and ate at this place called the Bannana Leaf Apollo that my parents friends have been raving about for like 30 years – so we went. And we ate so much that wee thought we were going to pass out. You eat of Bannana leaves there… which was cool. And we ate Fish Head Curry – well pete ordered it – but i ate it cause i was brave and also cause the waiter was cute and was cracking up at the poor little girl tourist that was scared of the fish head…. BIG fish head…. floating in the curry. And he comes over and digs into the head of the fish and serves me some on my plate….. AAAHHHH. So i didnt want to be rude…. and so i ate it. And it was really good. It was all really good. And we made a mess. And it was awesome.
Me eating Fish Head:
Us – after we ate too much awesome Indian food:
Little India in general was dirty messy and smelly. I loved it.
We headed over to the Singapore Night Safari Zoo. Which we had heard copious amounts of good things about it…. yeh….
This is us – young sweet innocent and NAIVE – BEFORE the zoo experience began:
IT WAS LAME.
so very lame.
This is us AFTER the zoo “experience”… What do we think of the Singapore Zoo???:
The whole point is supposed to be that the animals are awake because of the whole noctural thing – BUT THEY WERE ASLEEP. So there we are wandering around in the dark… with a bunch of other stupid tourists… looking at animals… who are all sleeping because THEY ARE NOT AS STOOPID AS US!!! and it was just lame ok? Anyway pete is telling you about that now…. so i’ll leave it at this – LAME!!!
Today we are heading over to Chinatown again after we do the botantical gardens… and tonight we start our tour – meet the group and all that jazz. Heading into Malaysia in the morning – so no more mobile phone until further notice kiddies!!!
take care of each other!!!
- sam
… I know the Laundry thing doesnt really seem like the kind of thing you would bother mentioning. But here is the thing. We rang the laundry guy before we went – and not knowing pete the poor guy accidently mentioned that our laudry had to weigh under 4 kgs. SO PETER goes about constructing a set of weights – Macguiver Style – in our room. It took an hour. But a coat hanger, two water bottles, 2 carabeenas and a ziplock bag later he was in business… I took photos… because what else was i gunna do… oh and there were mathimatical equations and muttering drawn all over our maps…. gosh! 
Driving out to the place we were staying at took about an hour from the airport. The lanscape changed from built up city to small rundown shacks built on stilts in the river… and eventually we did actually see sections of forest. Intemittedly, between large chunks of red earth and bulldozers. They (the bulldozers, and cranes) were every where. I asked the taxi driver about it (i like to hassle them alot – capitive audience you know 
) and he says : ” 30 years ago there was nothing here but monkeys in the trees – now look at the place. Look what we have done.” Apparently the Borneo government is ashamed of having “nothing” there and so are building and building in an attempt to… have something… i would have rather seen the monkeys in the trees than the half built hyper mall…. My whole life i have heard about deforestation this, logging that blah blah blah. But it never fully sank in until that taxi driver spelt it out… In my lifetime he has seen his country change that much… and so then i spend a hour watching bulldozers in the foreground and forest in the background and it really hit me….
Heaps of cool stuff to see and play with. They had a hallway tiled with lights that send out waves of colour when you walked. There was a virtual fish pond that you could swish the water around in, a cool table interface to something like Google Earth – you tilted the table to pan around and spun the table (it was round) to zoom in and out.
