Coming up next: Go Goa !

The Singapore Series which I started in my travel blog , Shalini's travelogue will end in a week's time(I have been regularly updating it for the last couple of days). Up next is my experiences in Goa .I visited Goa as a part of my college tour with friends. We stayed at Goa for 3-days and it was so much fun. It's already 2 weeks from teh time I returned and I'm still in the Goa hangover, that's the amount of fun we had..

Watch this space to read about my experiences in Goa.

Wordless Wednesday # 9

Sunset at the Sentosa Island (Singapore)

My experiences in the lion city - Singapore # 1

The city of Singapore is a gastronomic delight, a shopoholics heaven, a perfectonists dream come true, a land of multilingual people and diverse culture.

I spent a weeks time in this lion city and at the end of my trip I'm truly enthralled with the way the city works, its people and what it has to offer to its tourists.

I reached Singapore on the 5th of Jan and returned on 12th Jan.

While planning for the trip a lot of my blog friends, people I know had all told me that there would be lot of stuffs to shop for and you will be confused but I was always wondering that its all going to be the same stuff... clothes, gadgets, house hold items et all . But the minute I entered any shop , I was so dazed with the amount of varities they have in each thing be it the shop houses , malls or the Singapore's very own Mustafa.

I have planed to divide my Singapore experience into 7 parts initially where in I will be writing about my each days experience and later on if there is something exclusive to share that would follow the 7th post :)

I started from Chennai on the 5th of Jan (Saturday) by Jet Airways. Thou' it was mentioned that our flight was a Boeing737 we got the new A330. This is how the business class looks

We opted for the economy one, it wasn't bad either .. A few views from the flight

The in-flight entertainment


View of the Chennai city from the flight


View of couple of islands before nearing Singapore

View of the Singapore harbour

Sky View of the Singapore city

We reached Changi airport at around 5:45 pm on 5th Jan and it took us about an hours time for immigration, baggage collection et all before we were out.

In the entrance of Changi airport arrival hall . The airport looks so huge , it is a mall in itself . Changi airport has got three terminals the last one terminal 3 was inaugrated jus' a few days back on 9th Jan 2008.

We checked in at hotel SHA Villa (Will make a separate post about it later)

After an hours rest, it was around 8 pm, we headed to Little India for dinner and had masala dosa( the one in pic)

After which we headed to Singapore's very own Mustafa shopping centre. This place here is a 24 hour shopping mall . It is actually didvide into 2 different malls . The serangoon plaza closes by 11pm and the Mustafa centre is open 24/7 isn't that awesome . So, every night we were here atleast 5 nights and believe me we haven't finished seeing the whole store.. Its so huge . Thou' its divided into 2 plazas , both of them are equally huge and incomparable...

Got back to the room at around 1am .. Thats how my first day went by :) It is very short compared to the other days as we hardly had half a day time to explore...

More to come.. I haven't started writing in my travelogue yet might take a couple of days I guess :)

I am back :)

Hey all I am back and very glad to be back home and to my blog space . Like you all wished, I had a wonderful trip. Apart from the stuffs I shopped for I carried back home lots of wonderful memories which I am to share with all of you in my coming posts.

The things I missed during my trip were my home,my boy friend and last but surely not the least Blogging :). It happens rite.. Anyways Im doing fine now except for one thing that I have to leave home soon to join hostel ( I feel really heavy in my heart when I think about this one thing). Anyways I will be coming back home for the weekends as my college is about couple of hours travel from home.

We also have a festival coming up in a couple of days, its a harvest festival called pongal about which I will be blogging soon too.

So, loads and loads of stuff to share with you all

About Singapore, moving to hostel, Pongal(the harvest festival) and a lot of memes and awards I reacieved from blogger friends as a token of love abd lastly my paid posts . I know im doing a handful of paid posts every now and then , I jus' hope you all done mind those in between my regular posts or(me making some extra money :p). I don know of those ads are useful to you but will try my best to post relevant ads in my blog space .

Now, that Im back to my regular day to day blogging check out this space for posts regularly and also my new blog space Shalini's travelogue.

Thank you for dropping by my blog even when I was away and rendering your continuous support. I truly appreciate it! Thank you! :)

Last few hours in Singapore

It has been a wonderful trip , lot of memories im carrying back home. I jus' hope I will be able to come back here sometime in the later.. Mt flight will be leaving Singapore in about 4 hours. So, will be back to my ususal blogging by tomorrow evening. Hope all of you are doing great

Cheers!

Vegetarian food in Singapore , shopping , Sentosa

Singapore is known for its diverse cusine , with Singaporeans all time favourite hobby being eating . I'm sure most of my readers from Singapore, those of you who have been there earlier would be able to help me around with my queries

After a lot of googling and reading about Singapore , there are a few things I would like to know more about..

Me being a vegitarian (don' mind egg and milk based stuff in my food)I would like to know if there are any particu;ar local cusine falling under the veg. category which I should try out during my visit to Singapore.

I heard Simlim square is a favourite place to buy electronic goods, but also read some rave reviews saying they might cheat you with the price or give you low quality products . Do you suggest anything ? Any thing I should beware off?

Lastly, I would like to know what is the average time one could spend in Sentosa, as of now we have planned to drop by from morning till night. Is staying in the place recommended to have more fun?

Singapore, here I come......

My parents and I are planning to visit Singapore sometime around the 1st or 2nd week of January 2008. Since this is going to be my first trip to Singapore ( or anywhere out of India for that matter) ..I'm really excited . We will be there around for about 5 days I guess. So, I would like to request all my blogger friends from Singapore and others who have knowledge about the place to suggest places for sight seeing , shopping, dining and also good hotels for accomodation . The usual ones as well as the off beat places which are usually not mentioned in the guide books or websites.. I would also like to read if you have had some wonderful experience or about any general tips about visiting Singapore..

Looking forward for your responses :)