Dad's Diary Far Eastern trip 1994 part 2 Leaving Colombo airport Sri Lanka. We boarded the plane bound for Singapore at 10.15 and after a long flight, landed in Singapore at 4.50 where Nic met us . His friend Robert, driving a super old Merc brought us from Changi airport through beautiful wide roads to Weyhill Close. Nic shares the house with Thomas, who works in Foreign Exchange at UOB, and Salvat who also works in UOB as a Bank Dealer. We unpacked and settled in, then Nic asked us to go with him into the town Nic took us out to Newton, where everyone was eating. We had baby octopuses crispy fried, a whole fish, with rice, vegetables in sauce. Quite an experience! Nic then took us to the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) to Orchard station and we walked around Orchard Road, where his latest project is, in the Mandarin Hotel, where he is designing the massive circular fish tank. We went into the hotel bar, where we had a drink and listened to a live band. They were playing some Tina Turner songs, with a good beat. Mainly old 70s-80s music with an energetic couple of singers. No2 band was not up to much and tried to play some Reggae. We took a taxi home, at 0130 and turned in. bWe crossed the Singapore river by the Cavenaugh bridge, had a drink at a bar and and walked around the old Colonial area, near the Padang, where whites used to play cricket. It is now used by all colours.out 01.30 and soon turned in. Friday, we were up and Nic took us to the UOB plaza. We arranged to see him later as he had some things to attend to, as he was going to spend a week with us. We crossed the Singapore river by the Cavenaugh bridge, had a drink at a bar and and walked around the old Colonial area, near the Padang, where whites used to play cricket. It is now used by all colours. we returned to the other side of the river, along the refurbished water front and had breakfast at the popular Deli France in the UOB building.and eventually re-crossed the river to walk in the Medina Park. We went into the shopping arcade as it was getting very hot, along Raffles Avenue to the Padang and back to the UOB Plaza where we met Nic again We lunched in the Chatterbox in the ground floor of the UOB, with all the usual curries,fried rice etc.in a hot pot. Nic gad some more work to finish,so we took a bus to Erskine Road and went into a large building like an indoor market hall, where hundreds of people were eating and drinking at tables - eats, drinks, stalls - very ethnic Chinese. We just had some mixed fruit drinks melons, papayas, cucumber carrott etc. After about an hour Nic returned and we took a taxi to the WTC (world Trading Centre). Up 14 floors to the cable cars and sailed high over the harbour and ships to Mount Faber where we were now in Sentosa (A playground area, being developed for future holiday experience,) Quite a massive development.with monorails, zoos, etc. Back to the WTC and caught a bus to Nic's local Queensbury shopping centre, quite small by singapore standards, with small shops - tailors, etc, where Nic go measured for two shirts and new trousers (Ready tomorrow), then taxi back to Weyhill. Washed and changed and we were off again in a taxi, this time to the world famous Raffles Hotel.(Asia's No.1 Hotel! We had a buffet in the Tiffin Roomthe walked around for a bit in the shopping area. Another bus ride back to Erskine road to Baba Louis's night club where we spent the rest of the day.