Thailand #3 - Singapore and Kata house

First up, I shipped the pool tourney at the Swedish sports bar! Get in! Won every game in my group, then beat a tough Danish dude in an epic (semi-drunk) final. Ship the baht! Epic 6-way game of killer later too with some great gambling rules, will definitely be playing that back home! Guys that own the bar are complete legends. Night got a bit hazy after that, we hit up some bars and ended up heading back with some ladies... I thought Craig did the same, but when I woke up I noticed this message on my laptop...

Craig says:
r u actually grinding?
Craig says:
thats what i thought
Craig says:
good
Craig says:
anyways
Craig says:
dude.. i know... im a dick
Craig says:
i went to patong tonight
Craig says:
got in at 7am and just got back from a run/swim
Craig says:
anyways need some sleepys so get brekky without me
Craig says:
will call u/msn u when im about
Craig says:
:D
Craig says:
oh yeh, make sure im awake by 1.30.. ill explain later x

The full story was after we split around 3am (all completely wasted) was that he met up with some random old bloke and they drove out to Patong and ate a bunch of Oysters, lol wtf? Anyways, they got back real late and Craig decided it was a good plan to go swim some lengths in the sea while drunk. Surprisingly the plan worked out in his favour as he ended up meeting a real nice girl from Singapore that was co-incidentally headed there at the same time as us!

Singapore
We headed to Singapore to check it out and also to visa run. Without a proper Thai tourist or work visa you need to go out of the country then back in every 30 days. Still deciding where to go next month, probably do Malaysia or Cambodia. The morning of the flight we managed to sleep in, rush packing, then got a Tuk Tuk to the airport, which turned out to be like 1 hour away. The driver did an awesome job of completely flooring it the whole way, weaving in and out of traffic and doing a bunch of crazy undercutting shit, was pretty insane. After 5 mins I decided it best to look out the back instead of where he was driving, much less stressful :)

Arrived way behind schedule to the airport, but thankful to be alive after the TukTuk ride. There were massive queues out front and we thought we were fucked for sure, but went up to ask where our airline's gate was and they ended up opening a new door right in front of us. We skipped a 45min queue that would have missed us the flight! We checked in, then went and ate breakfast at BK completely forgetting that we still had to go through passport control :S Long story short, there was a massive queue, we ended up queue jumping a bunch, and sprinted though to the terminal to make the flight 5 mins before they closed the doors!

First impressions of Singapore were that it's VERY quiet! On the tube people even when it was busy and a lot of people were chatting they still talk really quietly so there's not much noise or hustle/bustle at all, a little strange but very calming compared to Thailand. There weren't many white people in Singapore at all, unlike Thailand where there are a lot of European tourists. The island was made up of mainly chinese/singaporeans, some Thais and some Indians. Each of which were pretty different, the chinese were very quiet and passive, the Thai's were a little louder and more forward and the Indians were very starey and kind of rude most of the time really.

Singapore women
The girls in Singapore are probably the most beautiful I've seen anywhere in the world. Walking through the streets we were constantly stunned by drop dead gorgeous girls. I can't stress how amazing it was, I'd never seen anything like it there were just SO many absolutely stunning women. They all have such gorgeous tight bodies, soft skin and fantastic hair and dress sense. On top of that they're very quiet and bashful but often playful and very affectionate. Soooo cute. At the start of the trip I didn't have that much of a thing for asian girls but now I do for sure!! I'd compare some of them to girls like Eva Longaria, really slim/petite with perfect skin and asian, obviously. Even when ageing through 30s the girls are still drop dead gorgeous. Anyways...

First night
On the night we arrived we went out to a couple of bars then a Valentines party at a club called Howl At The Moon on the awesome Orchid Road with Craig's US/Singaporean friend Michelle and some of her cousins. Place was pretty cool, was a duelling pianos bar kind of like the one in Vegas where u could request music, hearing The Proclaimers - 500 Miles in Singapore was pretty awesome ;D The price of the drinks in Singapore is completely insane, a shot of Sambuca was 15$SD, roughly £7 and a bottle of Tiger was like £6. Singapore is insanely expensive to drink in (shot Sambuca £7, bottle of Tiger £6), this was unfortunate for us as we ended up getting busto'ing our Singapore Dollars getting completely trashed and dancing around like monkeys. But good times had by all... drinking, dancing and chatting up of ladies!

Next day
...we mainly chilled out I think. Hit up a great food hall for lunch. Loads of different types of foods to pick from, all looked amazing, tonnes of fresh fruit. Kind of seemed like a dinner hall, lots of different people dining together a big long tables, nice atmosphere. Dim Sum ftw. Had some ice-cream sandwiches later too, different flavours of ice cream wrapped in kind of sweet bread... pretty awesome.

We then went for a look around the city and a few beers in the evening. Harbourside is stunning, we had a few beers by the water there, very romantic :P Then we ended up walking to the Singapore Flyer, a big wheel similar to the London Eye... it's biggest/tallest observation wheel in the world. We went on that and looked over the city and night, pretty beautiful, although I was shitting myself half of the way through! Things lasted 30 fucking minutes too, I was sweating more in there than I was outside in the heat!!

Last day
Andy and I took the MRT to Singapore Zoo. It was forecast to rain heavily but we figured it probably wouldn't be too bad. As soon as we arrive and massive thunder/lightening storm and torrential rain begins lol. Decided to go for it anyways rocking baller $3 poncho's and braving the storm to check out the animals and get completely soaked. Was still a lot of fun, unfortunately we didn't get to ride any elephants as that was shut off due to the weather though... doh! But we got a bunch of cool photos.

Oh yea, Singapore pics here.

Headed out later with Michelle to see a few places. First up a great eating place with loads of cool Asian foods which we sampled. Girl cracked us open fresh coconuts and drank from them with a straw, awesome. Noodles, BBQ'd satay skewers, and some ridiculously awesome deserts that I can't remember the name of. One involved toast and this amazing coconut custard, legendary. After that we headed to Clarke Quay and hit up Medic bar which was really cool, all done out like a hospital. You can order shots on a drip! Tables all have real wheelchairs for seats, lighting is all operating theater style and hospital bed style couches.

Kata house
Headed back to Phuket in the morning and moved into our new house in Kata. We freaking love it here for sure. Place has a huge living area with a great big wrap around couch and big table which is great for grinding/beerpong. We have 4 different balconies, 2 private rooftop areas, a shared pool outdoor jacuzzi and everything has an awesome view looking down over the town of Kata, beach and out to the Indian ocean. The big rooftop area is our favourite place for sure, rigged some power and tables out there so we can work on the laptops in the evening which is awesome. Definately need to pick up a BBQ for the rooftop. I've got the huge master suite at the moment, it's got a massive balcony, big en-suite with a jacuzzi. From anywhere in the suite can see out to the ocean, it's insane. Definately the sickest house I've ever stayed in.

A few house pics at the end of the album here.

We got long term bike rentals sorted out which is wicked. So I've got a motorbike for the next couple of months, pretty sweet Honda with only 1k miles on the clock, I think we got good deals on the price too working out at close to £3/day. So that's taken us up to today, where I'm sitting having a few beers and writing this out before bed. Things are a lot more settled now for sure, and we're planning on putting a lot of hard work in over the next few weeks, running a little behind schedule for my goals for the month so it's graft time.

Loving the new fast internet here, got The Wire season2 on download and kicking off coaching tomorrow with an early morning session with Brian.

Shot of the view...
All the best.