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During my first week in Shanghai back in 2004, I was buying ice cream everyday,sometimes 2 or 3 times a day too. They don’t sell red bean ice cream, ‘zong zi’ ice cream, green tea ice cream, green peas ice cream,etc in Mauritius. Of course, the more ‘normal’ ice creams are also sold in China but I love trying all the different kinds of ice cream. Eventually (and for obvious reasons), I cut down my ice cream intake to one or two per week but I still love ice cream.
Now that I’m in Singapore, I have to try the local ice cream! hehe. When I was at Orchard road with Desmond,Ah ting, their aunt and little Jack, I saw many ice cream sellers. It’s a bit difficult not to notice them.

People queuing up to buy ice cream.

The different flavors available. People can choose waffle biscuit or even sliced bread. I’m not sure if the cones are also available. Everyone seems to be buying the waffle biscuits so I opted for that one too. I wonder what it’s like to have ice cream between 2 slices of bread.

The seller is preparing my ice cream. He took a long bar of ice cream, cut a piece from it and then put that piece between two waffle biscuits.

I chose yam ice cream. I love it. It looks simple but tastes so good. I’d like to try the sweet corn or durian ice cream next.

The next attraction we visited was Images of Singapore where we learned a lot about the different cultures in Singapore. It’s a pity that we don’t have something like this in Mauritius.

‘Welcome’ in four languages.

Adrian,Lisa’s little cousin sure had lots of fun posing for the camera.

me and Lisa on a carriage.

Don’t feel like writing about the rest of the photos right now. It’s nearly dinner time. I really love the food here but Desmond keeps telling me to control myself and not eat too much. *Snif snif*
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Sentosa,which apparently means peace and tranquillity in Malay, is a popular island resort in Singapore. Lisa took her relatives there the other day and I tagged along too. I had a quick look at the price list and it seems to be quite costly to go to all the attractions at Sentosa. We took a package which enables us to choose 3 attractions from the Experience category and 1 from the Adventure category. More information there. We chose The Merlion, Images of Singapore, Butterfly Park and Insect Kingdom and Sentosa 4D Magix. The package costs SGD 33.90 per adult instead of SGD52. We added an extra SGD5 to get one more attraction from the Adventure category and opted for the Luge & Skyride.

At Sentosa
Our first stop was The Merlion.

This half-lion, half-fish creature is called The Merlion.

Singapura means lion city in Malay.

Pic taken in the ‘jaws’ of the Merlion.

Everyone got a coin at the exit of the theater(where I forgot my camera pouch ) and we are supposed to insert the coin into the Merlion’s mouth to get a mystery gift card that we take to the counter to redeem a free gift.

Taking a break.

The luge.

Me and Lisa.
We all had to wear helmets for the luge ride which was like carting.

I have reached Singapore since a few days now and I’m loving the weather here. It’s not as hot as Shanghai and I feel like I can tan without getting sunburnt. I’m already a bit tanned by now. I am staying at Hillview with Lisa, a Mauritian friend who was studying at NUS and who is now working in Singapore. I haven’t seen her since 2004. We were both in the majorette team back in secondary & high school. She’s like a little sister to me. Staying at her place reminds me of the times when I used to go and stay over at her house back in Mauritius.
Lisa is at work right now and I am currently at Desmond’s place to upload some of the photos and blog a bit.
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I didn’t take a direct flight from Shanghai to Singapore. I went to Guangzhou first and then took Tigerair from there. Due to the rain, the plane was delayed by 2 hours.
I took a ‘Hot meal of the day’ and it was surprisingly good. A little tip: Pay in SGD. When paid in RMB, the prices were ridiculously higher. (On Tigerair, people have to pay for the meals and drinks because they weren’t included in the plane ticket. )

A typo mistake.

Yummy chicken egg noodles. My first time having a meal on the plane when it hasn’t taken off. We were all bored and hungry and the stewardess had to start serving food and drinks.

Doodles. We were bored.

Our handphones and the handphone chains that we bought at the airport. Desmond’s phone is the gold one, mine is the white one. I wanted to buy the red Olympic mascot handphone chain but it was sold out.

-_- Desmond did that. The one standing is his.

View of Malaysia from the plane.

Photo of Pulao Tekong,an island off the north-eastern coast of Singapore. If I remember correctly, Desmond said that it is a military training area.

View of Singapore from the plane. Desmond helped me snap this photo and then the plane was landing already.

This is the first photo that I took in Singapore.

I’m posting this photo because I just went to see The Dark Knight yesterday at Westmall.

I have been to only a couple of places in Singapore so far but what I can say for sure is that I love the food here. More photos soon. I went to Sentosa and Chinatown already. I’ll go to the zoo and the night safari this weekend. I have to check online about interesting places to visit here. I need to do some shopping too. I didn’t bring much luggage. Too bad I missed the July sales.