Friday, May 08, 2009

Day 2: Aporkalypse Now or "I had a thought..."

The ANA flight to Singapore had a very cool cockpit cam, about which Arianne got extremely geeked out. She tried to entertain Wisam with random thoughts, musing every other minute: "So, I had a thought..." We decided that the much nicer plane, food, and fewer people with masks was a sign of our impending good travel karma, considering the adversity we had experienced thus far. Also, we were pretty impressed that we hadn't killed each other in the midst of our freakout. We even passed the thermal scan screening at the Singapore airport. So much more civilized.

Upon arrival, we finally located Arianne's suitcase (yay for clean clothes!) and headed to the swanky Swissotel Merchant Court in the Chinatown district.

We feasted upon curried vegetables, beef rendang, and chicken at the very chic Blue Ginger restaurant. We also enjoyed sectionmate Mogan's favorite, Tiger Beer.

After dinner, we hit up LongBar, a so-called hotspot at the ultra-luxe Raffles Hotel. DO NOT GO HERE. We were overcharged for pints of Tiger and were subjected the most hideous cover band I've ever heard, along with Americans doing some crazy, seizure-like dance...(ever seen Elaine on Seinfeld?)

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