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Jurassic park (Ok actually the Night Safari)

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On Thursday night I decided to do the Night Safari.  Though I had heard good reviews, I was indifferent, thinking it was literally going to be the river safari but with different animals and at night time.  It sort of was, but it was pretty cool, and TERRIFYING. (sorry not many photos of animals here, my camera only takes good night shots of things that remain still, when taken from a tripod, so I only have imaged of blurred things) I arrived about half an hour before it opened, so sat and had dinner before going in.  We were entertained by topless men breathing fire - so I was happy. When you enter you have several options.  At the beginning there is the tram stop, which gives you a 40 minute tour of zoo and I assumed would be pretty pants and lazy.  Given that the queue for this was going nowhere fast, I asked a member of staff if I could walk round it instead, as they have several different walking trails, and they looked surprised but said yes and pointed me in the directi

A leisurely Sunday

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I went to bed late on Saturday.  I went for a buffet all you can eat BBQ dinner with my colleague, which was quite nice - got loads of gossip, had one of the best steaks I have ever eaten, and it all went onto my colleague's bill, so good all round.  Then I skyped my mum and Tim and then just ended up faffing about and didn't go to bed till midnight.  I put my room to 'no service', turned off my alarm and had a lovely long lie in, waking up just in time for breakfast before they stopped it. I then headed to the pool (I am on to book 3 of sword of truth series) and put a good dent in the book. I chilled out till about 1.30 when I realised I had been really lazy and ought to get off my lazy butt and go do something.  I thought I would be cultural, so jumped into a taxi and went to the National Singapore Museum.  Which was awful.  Maybe it was just me being a ditz, but the only exhibition I could see was one about how TV came to Singapore, and featured lots of costumes

Well that was emotional

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Just got in from watching Hunger Games: Catching Fire.  What an emotional roller coaster that was!! It's a good job I was sat at the back on my own because I cried all the way through (what can I say, I'm an emotional person) The seat of solitude Not as good as the book but still good nonetheless.  I left the cinema feeling emotionally drained. mmmmm Liam or Chris which to choose They missed out a few bits and the beginning was really sped up - I found this with the first movie too, I was actually quite bored until the hunger games began, whereas the book I was drawn in from the start.  My problem with the first film is I was very shallow and really wanted Gale to be the one she ends up with because he's so hot (I could stare at him all day, why Miley dumped him I'll never know - just look at his gorgeous face to the left) and Peter isn't good looking and is a bit of a sap.  I don't think the movie really shows him off in the best light either, in th

Regret

I won't go into detail but lets just say I regret the garlic overdose the night before. Went to the pub quiz last night - everyone in the usual team was busy so I took my colleagues along and their partners.  It was good "team building" actually, we had a good time. We were 3rd until the fourth round where we failed miserably on the movies section, and a lot of the teams had chosen to play the joker on the round. We ended up 15th which wasn't too great - we knew we were losing so we went for it on the wipeout round which in hindsight was probably not a good idea.  I do love a good pub quiz. Carried out my 3rd interview yesterday too - the lady was a firecracker and I think perfect for the role, only issue is she can't start until January.  Need to make a decision soon.

I'm safe from Dracula tonight

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I finished on time today and rushed to get the bus as it was tipping it down.  Luckily it was only drizzling by the time I got to the MRT station the other end, so I walked a leisurely pace home with my colleague.  I think because of the leisurely pace I was walking at, I had a lot of energy still so managed to do an hour in the gym.  I am onto the next Sword of Truth book and managed to prop up my tablet on the treadmill so I had something to do whilst running - it worked a treat! Anyway - after the gym I showered and headed into Clarke Quay for dinner as I haven't properly explored it yet.  After wandering round the restaurants I settled on this place Mad For Garlic .  I would say 90% of the menu contained garlic, including the drinks and the desserts....  I refrained from a garlic drink and instead opted for a 'kitty', a red wine and ginger ale concoction which was delicious and tasted a bit of sangria. I will certainly be trying to recreate it at home.  Fo

The best weekend

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Apologies for the delayed post, I was having technology issues.  My laptop refused to connect to the internet yesterday and kept freezing every 5 mins.  (My camera also decided to break, as did my BlackBerry - argh) Annoyingly yesterday I used a cash machine to withdraw $150, and the machine never actually gave me any cash, but took the money off of my balance.  I called the number on the ATM but they couldn't do anything and told me to call my bank, which I did, and I then had to fill in a form and send it off, so hopefully I'll get my money back! My rocking Friday night in was semi planned, because I knew Saturday was going to be quite tiring. I had planned to meet up with Paul (from the family I had gone to dinner and quiz with) who was going to come with me to Pulua Ubin, a little island off the coast of Changi, near the airport.  The guidebooks all say this is a must do, because it's meant to be what Singapore was like before they decided to urbanise it and build