Singapore Sling

Singapore was fighting me back. I a way anyway. I lost my precious cap I had bought from Australia, and I forgot my shampoo at Jukkas place. All in all it was a nice experience, though I was paranoid I might do something illegal (such as littering) to receive a beating punishment from Singapore government. Even though the ultimate cleanliness and skyscrapers made an effect on me. One was able to go through all the city in shopping malls to avoid the sun beams. The town was quiet enough and people very helpful. The public transportation was like a clock, very good and efficient.




Gill Divers were very helpful and they sold me a nice new Suunto D4. I am proud and I do not take it off even to shower, well, it is a diving computer after all, with a clock and some nice other additions. We´ll see now how it will work in real business.

I can honestly say that I love Singapore Airport! If I was to spend a night at the airport, this would be my choice. One little nice detail was a Post On Wheels-- a small car rolling around the terminal area at times to collect mail and to sell envelopes and postcards for the late sending.

Ah, and yes. We did not find durian ice cream, so I still have to find a way to taste the fruit. But we did have a Chinese breakfast and sushi for early dinner. And the Singapore Sling was totally overpriced in Raffles Long Bar.

Things will find their way to work out

That was the sentence I agreed on today when leaving my massage therapist. After getting back home I decided to take a look on the flights to Singapore, and there it was; the greatest price between Helsinki and Singapore!

As I continued snooping around a bit, I did find it a bit cheaper from the airline pages itself. Air France 581€. Bargain. I would say. I usually keep on tracking the search engines such as ebookers, Area, e-ticket, Travellink and Kaleva Travel. Kilroy Travels is good as well when it comes to "local" ones. eDreams has been very helpful, but it has a certain difficulty factor if one wants to book also from the same pages (you need to fax your passport copy to the agency, and no one answers the phone if you want to ask something). So, after seeing all the prices I try another go on the airline websites to check if the price (normally is, but not always) is better for me. This time I got lucky with Air France.

Now I only need my flights from Singapore to Kota Kinanbalu.
I decided to fly through Singapore because of the

a) the location
b) good/cheap/frequent flight connections to Borneo
c) friends that I can see and get a sofa place by bringing them some Finnish delicacies such as rye bread and mustard. I also promised to make my salmon soup with dill.

Hunting for flights can be hard, but today I am very happy about myself. Form Singapore on I will travel with either Air Asia, Jetstar Asia (a sister company to Australian Jetstar) Silk Air or Malaysia Airlines. Then the next leg of the race will be Kota Kinanbalu--> Semporna, bus or plane, but that I still need to think.

Oh, yes, the "due date" is Monday May 3rd 2010. I guess the German-Chinese fortune cookie was not totally wrong when giving me this information last autumn: "Dont be afraid to take that big step".