Now we are chilling out at the hotel cafe while waiting for our rooms to be ready. Having way too much fun with the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.
KY and I with our trusty companions 
Saw Yoon Kit on the same plane. Hah, so coincidence one…
Prince of Wales Backpacker Hostel in Little India
As mentioned earlier, we stayed at the Prince of Wales Backpacker Hostel in Little India. I’d seen it before — when FA and I were in Singapore last year, we stayed at the Perak Hotel, also in Little India. There were lots of people drinking and generally having a good time at the POW when we passed by the place, so that kind of stuck in my mind.
Hostel guests get S$2/3 off selected booze, so it was S$5 for a bottle of San Miguel. I know, I know… normally I’d rather drink my own urine than to consume San Miguel, but… I have no excuses.
Paul, FA and I with our beer. Photo taken by Bob
Would I recommend the place? Sure, if you don’t mind the surrounding noises by the pubs and clubs around Little India.
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Nasi Beryani Ayam @ Singapore Zam Zam, Bugis
Bob suggested that we check out this restaurant in Bugis that apparently serves good nasi beryani and murtabak. Luckily he knew the way (I’m not familiar with Bugis) — it’s right opposite the Sultan Mosque. The place seemed popular and we had to wait a while to get a table.
Nasi Beryani Ayam, Singapore Zam Zam
Doesn’t the photo above makes you want to attack the plate of food? Well, I randomly take okay photos sometimes, so lesson #1: photos can be deceiving. I was unable to finish my dinner, and Bob had a hard time with it too. It was edible lah, just terribly bland and tak sedap. Oh well.
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Esplanade - Theaters on the Bay
The next day we headed over to Esplanade for the reason we were in Singapore — Avenue Q. There was a massive jumbled-up hula hoops thing on display.
Obviously someone else appreciates this more than me
Art is perspective indeed. I don’t remember the description, but it had a very canggih and artsy-fartsy one. Looks like MS Paint to me.
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Avenue Q The Musical
OMAIGOD the show was more than brilliant! We had the best cheap tickets (’cos we bought them in July) and everything was more than fantastic! The set, the songs, the costumes, the puppets, the actors/ actresses… I loved loved LOVED it!
I heart Avenue Q!
It was a mostly Filipino cast, which was why the songs didn’t sound the same on the soundtrack. Still bloody awesome! We laughed so hard, we clapped after every song, and we laughed again. It’s on-going till Nov 16th, so go catch it if you can! Go alone, doesn’t matter, just go!
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Subway in Singapore
… has bacon as in BACON, and ham as in HAM. And honey mustard! Absolutely fabulous!
Tidak ditanggung halal
I don’t think I’ll be able to eat a Malaysian Subway sandwich for a long time after having the Singaporean ones.
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Brewerkz at Riverside Point, Clarke Quay
My only must-go place in Singapore is Brewerkz after Edwin introduced it to me years ago. If you’d notice my blog banner, it’s a photo of me drinking a Brewerkz Golden Ale. It just makes me happy 
A few of my favouritest people!
I think we were the loudest table there, heh. Sorry, but we had a most amazing time!
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Ramen @ Ken, Orchard Plaza
After our pints and a whole beer tower, we decided to have ramen for supper at Ken in Orchard Plaza. Edwin and Pinky insisted that the ramen there is absolutely delicious, and the fact that they close at 2 a.m. (while stocks last) is a major plus.
Japanese ramen with char siew, stewed egg and other random bits
It was delicious Patrick stopped by for a couple of Asahi, more talking and yapping and gossping — I had an absolutely fantastic time! Thanks!
Click here to view the entire Flickr set for Singapore, Nov ‘08. 19 photos in total.
Ohai! I’m in Singapore at the moment, just arrived not long ago, just had lunch not long ago, just checked in to our hostel not long ago, and now we are into our second bottle of beer and counting.
We took the Aeroline coach down. Usually I love Aeroline, but for some reason, the air-conditioning in the bus that we were in wasn’t working very well. So I was quite irritated.
We took the MRT to Little India. The one thing that really impressed me was this:
It was very fast too!
We are staying at the Prince of Wales Backpackers’ Hostel where the booze is cheap; typical of a backpackers’ place lah. Got Wi-Fi, cheap booze…
Maybe I’ll just park my arse here all day and night long
As mentioned earlier, we went on a road trip to Morib beach.
nmch, the sunset was hidden by clouds
After breakfast at the hotel, we decided to walk across the road (there’s a connecting pedestrian bridge from the hotel to the other side of the road) to the beach.
Photo of the hotel swimming pool area taken from the pedestrian bridge
We passed by a flight of steep and uneven stairs, and an aquarium with a couple of hideous looking eels. I hate eels.
Unagi? Not for me
It was early-ish and there were not many people around. Was lovely to just walk a bit and play with the water and sand. You can view the rest of the beach photos at my Flickr set.
Leave nothing but footprints
We went back to our hotel room, packed and checked out. HPC came to get us and took us for lunch at an open-air food stall next to Fort Cornwallis (Padang Kota Lama). She said that they have the best mee sotong ever, never mind that I never had mee sotong before. There were a lot of people so we waited a while for our food.
The most fanfuckingtastic mee ever, sotong or what not!
The mee sotong was ridiculously delicious! It was also the one and only thing I craved for after coming back to KL. I was on MSN with Pinky the other night, and we both went, “I really want to eat the mee sotong now…” You must have it when you go to Penang. Like I said, it’s just next to Fort Cornwallis, you can’t miss it!
After lunch, we had nothing much to do so we headed over to Starbucks at Gurney Hotel. They had board games, so we played snakes and ladders and Ludo. Couldn’t really remember the rules for Ludo (or how to play it, even) so the instruction leaflet came in handy…
I have not touched one of these things since I was a child
HPC won the game. I was the first runner-up. Guess who was second 
Then HPC decided that we’d rested on our laurels long enough, and took us to eat char kuey teow at Macalister Road. I first had it when I was in Penang with KY many moons ago. Maybe we overate earlier, but the char kuey teow didn’t seem to be as fantastic as I’d remembered it to be.
Sisters’ char kuey teow
After our second lunch, HPC took us to the bus station for our ride back to KL. There ends our great Penang getaway. Thank you so much, HPC for everything you’ve done and more! We had a FANTASTIC time, and your company made it even better. Cheers!
*Click here to view the entire Flickr set for ‘Penang, August 2008′, which includes photos not published here. No. of photos in the set: 73.
