Last May'08 my colleagues and I (5 of us) as backpackers went to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur (KL) through Batam. It's tiring but there were a lot of memorable incidents during the trip. As soon as arrived in Singapore we planned to go directly by bus to KL, unfortunately no seat available anymore. We were so optimists that we could get the bus, unfortunately we failed to get transportation to KL on that night. To find the bus, we had walked for several hours starting from the bus ticket office in Harbour Front, Golden Mile Mall, until Lavender MRT station; even train ticket in Tanjong Pagar was also sold out too. Golden Mile Mall is the central bus ticket to KL, when searching for it, we walked to the opposite of the correct direction for almost an hour. Some Singaporean people we met could not speak English or if they could speak English they gave a wrong direction maybe because we have different dialect, so sometimes we had a miscommunication. It's a pity while our feet were getting soar and it's getting late at night. I learnt that we need to write down every destination address, so we could just show it to them.
We didn't realize that it's a long weekend (that Monday was a national holiday) either in Singapore and Malaysia, no wonder no ticket available anymore. I gave up walking, so I asked my friends to go by cab (only 4 persons maximum in a cab) to find the ticket while one of my friend and I were waiting at MRT station. Accidentally when my friend bought candy, I saw a bus ticket just right on the front of the MRT station. We didn't see it before, because we were rushing walking to the direction informed by the station officer. Finally at 21:30 we could get the bus ticket for the next night, so we had to spent a night in Singapore. No room had been reserved, but lucky that we had collected a list of apartment rental http://aryanitj.blogspot.com/2008/07/singapore-apartment-rental-list.html in Singapore, so I could call one by one to find whether there were any rooms available.
We didn't realize that it's a long weekend (that Monday was a national holiday) either in Singapore and Malaysia, no wonder no ticket available anymore. I gave up walking, so I asked my friends to go by cab (only 4 persons maximum in a cab) to find the ticket while one of my friend and I were waiting at MRT station. Accidentally when my friend bought candy, I saw a bus ticket just right on the front of the MRT station. We didn't see it before, because we were rushing walking to the direction informed by the station officer. Finally at 21:30 we could get the bus ticket for the next night, so we had to spent a night in Singapore. No room had been reserved, but lucky that we had collected a list of apartment rental http://aryanitj.blogspot.com/2008/07/singapore-apartment-rental-list.html in Singapore, so I could call one by one to find whether there were any rooms available.
I bought a local phone card to call one by one from the list. Madam Soh's apartment in Lucky Plaza was selected, she said that there were some rooms available and we could directly visited her. We met with her helpful and funny maid, Mbak Wati, from Central Java, so she could speak Javanese. We felt like at home meeting with a person from Java after getting lost in the evening :-). We need 3 rooms, unfortunately only 2 rooms available, so we must split the couple. Mbak Wati were very kind, she provided us clean rooms and some towels, although towels were not part of their service.
After taking a bath we felt fresh, but I was too tired to walk again, I took a rest while my friends walked through shining Orchard road street. I heard they stopped by Burger King to have supper then took some pictures along the Orchard road including playing around by taking funny pictures with the beautiful girl photos along the street. Not too long they had returned to the apartment, although the rooms were quite small but we could rest our feet at that night to continue the journey.
After taking a bath we felt fresh, but I was too tired to walk again, I took a rest while my friends walked through shining Orchard road street. I heard they stopped by Burger King to have supper then took some pictures along the Orchard road including playing around by taking funny pictures with the beautiful girl photos along the street. Not too long they had returned to the apartment, although the rooms were quite small but we could rest our feet at that night to continue the journey.
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Hm your friend so naughty ya
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