{"id":1128,"date":"2007-05-07T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edunik.com\/home\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2007-05-07T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T08:00:16","slug":"travel-4-likes-and-4-hates-in-singapore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edunik.com\/home\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"[travel] 4 Likes and 4 Hates in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will be stucked in Singapore &#8217;til Friday&#8230; so a lot of time thinking about Singapore, making this list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold;\">4 LIKES <\/span><br style=\"color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Kinokuniya &amp; HMV<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&amp; Jigsaw <\/span>&#8211; Reduction of the word &#8220;shopping&#8221; for me will be looking for books and CD\/DVD. These are must-visits everytime I go to Singapore. Although not always buying (especially HMW.. considering it&#8217;s competing with Ambassador and Mangga Dua hehehe), can spend hours in these two places.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Public Transport<\/span> &#8211; Probably the best in the world. Easy to go everywhere, and very integrated between bus and MRT.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sign and Information (esp for Tourist) <\/span> &#8211; An important infrastructure. You always know where you are. Combining it with good public transport make you impossible to get lost in Singapore, even if you are a poor map-reader.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Internet Broadband<\/span> &#8211; Well, completing the good infrastructure is internet. Superfast.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold;\">4 HATES<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Claustrophobic<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and Long Queueing <\/span>&#8211; So crowded in certain area and certain time. Always lose appetite to have dinner on Saturday night because you&#8217;ll have long queuing to get food and taxi. You&#8217;ll die starving before you sit down to order &#8230; or if you you&#8217;ll get home quicker rather by walking rather than waiting at taxi stand.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hospitality<\/span> &#8211; May be this is the effect of having a good sign and information everywhere. But try to ask for direction in a mall or in the street, amazingly you&#8217;ll have difficulty. And if in Indonesia, people (especially in service role, such as security, front office, waiter) are willing to help when they don&#8217;t know, don&#8217;t expect you get the same attitude in Singapore. You&#8217;re on your own. So.. try as hard as you can to help yourself.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Singlish<\/span> &#8211; Sometime Singaporeans are speaking gibberish. And if we do not understand (please bear with our ear&#8230;), they show no interest and mercy to try to speak slower or clearer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Boredom<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Acute <\/span>&#8211; Staying more than 3 days alone in Singapore is torturing. After quickly going through the LIKE list, suddenly.. no where to go and nothing to do. Looking at the newspaper, TVs there&#8217;s no crazy news, hot gossip, or silly comments like in Indonesia&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will be stucked in Singapore &#8217;til Friday&#8230; so a lot of time thinking about Singapore, making this list&#8230; 4 LIKES Kinokuniya &amp; HMV &amp; Jigsaw &#8211; Reduction of the word &#8220;shopping&#8221; for me will be looking for books and CD\/DVD. These are must-visits everytime I go to Singapore. 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