So for this holiday's vacay I decided to go to Singapore, land of the merlion and no chewing gums.
I departed from Kajang, Malaysia at 12pm by KTM(train, duhh!). I was actually suppose to depart at 10pm but then the ticket dude told me that the train was going to be 2 HOURS LATE!
So yeah, we got on the effing-late train and arrived in Singapore around 9.45am. Then we had to do the whole immigration thing. It was fast and easy. Loved it.
Then we continued the journey to the Tanjung Pagar station. After that, of course, we began walking around the city taking in all the sights.
The city reminded me a lot of Melbourne. The buildings, the streets and even the atmosphere was all kind of Melbourne-y.
I also went to Little India and had lunch (thosaii and mango lassi, so GOOD!).
Then I went to Chinatown and bought a few souveniers for myself :P
Oh yeah, to get around the city is really easy. All you have to do is buy a Singapore Tourist Pass ($18, $8 for the card and $10 refundable deposit), it'll come with a SMRT route map and a few offers and packages for travellers. When you've gotten your STP, just hop on a station and stop wherever you want and most places of interest in that area is in walking distance to you. Neat! (Why the eff am I using the word 'neat'?! Weird..)
Ooh, I also went to the Harbourfront and Merlion Park (the place where the huge merlion, head of a lion and body of a mermaid statue thing is..it was alot smaller than I expected it to be. Dissapointed a bit.)
So anyways, Ellie and I decided to just hang out at Merlion Park and soak in the sights while drinking our Coffee Bean ice-blendeds but then we realized that it was already 9.30pm and our train back to Malaysia leaves at 10pm!
So we had to rush like mad, like those contestants on the Amazing Race to get to the station in time but when we got there the ticket dude told us that the train had already left! And we were 5 minutes early! Way to go KTM, you pick the best times to actually be on time! F#$% *@f !
Of course, I had a major panic attack ! How the effing hell was I supposed to get back to my homeland now?!
We then decided to see if there would still be any busses left that were heading towards Malaysia at that time of night and, luckily, there was!
So yeah, we had to run like mad again to a bus stand and get a bus to go to the Johor Bahru Bus Depo. From there, we switched to another bus that would get us to Johor Bahru. Immigration procedures when you take the bus is so lame/tiring!
First when you get to the Singapore Immigration place you have to get off the bus and line up at the counters and you do not get off the bus at a proper stand or anything. You get off the bus in the middle of the road and run towards the building all the while praying that a motorcycle won't jump out of nowhere and crash into you!
Then inside they check your passports. You then get out of the building and search for the bus that you hopped out of. Get into it back again. The bus then takes you over the sea and you stop at the Malaysian Immigration (I think) place. Here, again, you get off the bus and get your passport checked. (The officer who checked my passport was so hot, he could have been a freakin model instead of working there. When he checked my passport he sort of looked at me weirdly and I was like "What?!" but then Ellie told me that his name was the same as my DAD'S! Weird but whateve, he's hot.The officer, not my dad.)
Ah, then as we were waiting for the bus that we came here on, to pass the checks I saw it pass by us heading towards the gates, AWAY from us at a considerable speed!
WHAT THE &^%$ ? YOU CANNOT LEAVE ME HERE!
So yeah, I had another panic attack. Is there another bus that I can take? What if there isn't? Am I stranded in this land of no chewing gums? What am I gonna do now?!
Turns out I can take a different bus, so long as the busses are from the same company.
THANK YOU GOD!
After we got on a different bus, it took us to Larkin. From Larkin we bought tickets to KL. The journey to KL took about 4 hours, pretty fast I must say.
I woke up at around 4.30am to the sounds of people getting off the bus. But this wasn't Puduraya(the place I wanted to arrive at). This was Bukit Jalil. As I was just about to doze off again the driver shouts out "This is the last stop. The bus WON'T be going to Puduraya until the 15th of October. Everyone get off."
WHAT?! YOU TELL ME THIS NOW?!
So, we had to get off the bus. I then called my dad to let him know i will not be arriving at Puduraya but that at that moment I had my ass parked on a chair in Bukit Jalil.
Thankfully, he said he'd pick us up from there. At that moment I could practically hear angels singing in the background.
When we got home, I showered then slept for the whole day. It was wonderful.
