Hello everybody

Im sorry it has been so long since I last wrote on this blog but I promise that I am now attempting to catch up and inform you all of what I have done and where I have been in the last month.

So I left India with a mixed feeling in my stomach - in one sense I was excited to move onto a new country and even a new continent and I truely believed that I had seen as muh of India as I could handle in one trip, but on the other hand I was nervous to get to Singapore and join what is classed as the normal back packer trail. What if I didnt like this classic way of travelling, didn't enjoy sleeping in dorm rooms with strangers and there for never having my own space .. what if the other travelers didn't like me? It was like my first day at school.

But regardless of the way I felt I figured if I can handle India I can do anything and so onto the plane I hopped. The flight didn't start well as when we arrived we found out that not only were we the last passengers to board but our names werent even on the boarding list but eventually at 10am on 17th November the wheels left the tarmac and we rose out of india to cross the Andaman sea.

Landing in Singapore was such a great experience, with a mere few ours in flight between India and our new destination the city couldn't be more different.Singapore city is like a new age version of how normal cities should be,its ridiculously clean, organized and civilized beyond anything.The first thing I noticed was how the tube from the airport into the city was clean, cool and perfectly on time - on disembarking I asked a local street seller for directions to our hostel - expecting the Indian response of a head wobble and a random arm movement which could be pointing you in 6 different directions I was pleasantly shocked when the lady kindly explained exactly where I needed to go and then politely wished me a happy trip. Another thing I noticed about Singapore is how quiet it is, I had been used to constantly beeping horns, shouting drivers and old rattling engines but here in Singapore there was nothing of the sort, the new cars made little noise and the use of a horn was seen as completely unacceptable, instead everybody stuck to their lanes politely let people cut in front where needed and in the end for little need to road rage - after India Singapore was a lullaby to my ears and so gladly welcomed in every way. We had decided to stay in Little India as it is the hub of cheap back packer hostels and we quickly arrived at the hostel we had found online, just like the city around us this hostel was easy and hassle free.Named the Inn Crowd it literally felt like we were - as we walked in I saw the common room full of back packers, chilling on bean bags, playing on the Wii, using the free internet and making them selves a cup of tea in the Kitchen.We were shown to our dorm which was clean and spacious and we soon found that it had 8 other English people in it - I haven't settled into somewhere so quickly, it felt like home immediately and due to the lovely people we met it felt like we had been accepted onto the usual backpacker trail with open arms.

Our time in Singapore wasn't spent wisely, to be honest we didn't see many tourist sites or land marks, instead me and kim wondered around the city discovering the new age architecture and enjoying the real metropolis life - and to me this seemed acceptable especially when we knew we would be coming back to Singapore in a few months to fly out to Australia.

One night we sat in the bar at our hostel, drank some beer and read through a lonely planet guide to south east asia, before long our route up to Thailand was planned and it would start the following day with a 4 bus journey to Malaka in Malaysia.

To be continued :)