Hello from Singapore 2

Hello from Singapore

Hello all, I am writing this on the plane (but probably posting this late in the night).
I’m enroute to Singapore again!

After the last trip, we’ve locked down on an office space and after some back and forth with the landlord and the agent, we managed to make payment on time for an April handover, getting a 1 month rent free renovation and set up period, and the actual rental term commencing in May. My assignment this time is to go pick up the keys to the office.

Why is a person in Macau flying all the way to Singapore to pick up the keys to a place that she won’t be working at? Argh.

There’s a few more things I must settle. I’ll be looking for an insurance agent there for the liability insurance and a property insurance. Also have to start talks with the local telecom to set up the telephone lines and such.

So other than these random bag of tasks, I am in Singapore… seemingly on holiday. A colleague was already gushing… “oh wow! I haven’t been to Singapore for so long already! I really want to go to Singapore!” Well, you are free to go on my behalf to get work done. Do you know how busy I am? I do not have the time to be playing around traveling for minor tasks like receiving the keys to the office when there are already employed staff there!

But, well. Due to reasons, this time I’m flying via Hong Kong, on Cathay Pacific. Just the bare minimum standards of an economy class trip, and Cathay is of course so much better than Air Macau. (I flew to Singapore on Air Macau the last time).

Next trip to plan: Seoul at the end of the month! This is a little more scary as unlike Singapore where everything is English based, in Seoul it’s not. I need to think about where to stay, local transport, and such. I really so hope there will be someone on board that speaks Korean or IS Korean that we can be going there with.

You know, I feel like such a creep LOL. I am sitting on my flight seat, aisle seat on the window side of the plane. My next two seats are empty, yay. I have my own in-flight entertainment TV screen. YET, I’m looking over 2 rows ahead on the opposite aisle seat’s screen. The guy in front of this one is watching Barbie. This one I’m looking at is some… maybe American high school story of some glam girl’s fall from grace or something. I don’t know. I’m only watching the screen and trying to read the subtitles. I have my own screen. Heck. I brought my own entertainment. I have my Switch this time. Awful idea, my computer bag is heavy as hell, but there’s a nostalgic game I used to play that had a Switch remake so I’m playing it there.

Two more hours to Singapore. I’ll stop here, toilet break, and start playing on my game 

An add-on after I checked into my hotel. I’m in Little India, and the hotel wants to look trendy and new and modern but sorry the state of the walls and other small things (the electric outlet, the seams between the glass wall of the toilet and room) just screams run down. But I’m not complaining, it’s a roof over my head, I’ve got a queen sized bed, the air con is lovely in this heat. My only lament is the lack of slippers. I was banking on their providing cheap paper thin slippers so didn’t bring my travel slipper but I banked wrong. I did think about buying new slippers but they are so expensive! I need a dollar store or Daiso type of place.

Dinner was at the food market places Tekka Center, then I went hunting for dessert and found a so-far the best sweet dessert soup place. Had a walnut and black sesame paste soup and it was DELICIOUS! Too bad this is in Singapore… I could be coming here every other day!

A few more tasks to handle tomorrow and then Friday I have to meet with a big management boss and the local staff, then I have the rest of Friday and Saturday morning free. Now. What should I do this time around?

Random photos of my walk around Little India. Need to get my guts together and try some actual Indian food. Already went for that... naan or prata thing in the market. Need to try more!

Tekka Place is NOT the market (Tekka Center) but now I found out I did not shoot a photo of the signage.

mi Hotel? Everything digital? And also walked past the University of arts or something.