I stopped over in Singapore both on the way out and way back. The only place I've been where I didn't have to queue going through immigration. Subway trains clean and safe and functional and open. A city of people upon people, buildings upon buildings.

I got sweaty from stupidly trying to carry luggage from MRT Bugis to the Albert Court Hotel! And getting lost in the process! Exploration was a failure but did find an Indian run Internet cafe (real hole in wall stuff). So I could email home. The electrical sockets in Singapore are UK style so I managed to recharge my batteries.

Singapore is a multinational place, its underground has four languages. The city is like the convergence of human rivers. Singapore hotels have UK style electrical sockets in them by the way. Useful when I was recharging batteries. Did see the world famous Raffles Hotel (the only bit of tourism I really managed) it looked so out of place and small among modern architectures. Sent off emails from a cyber cafe nearby.

On the way back I saw Sentosa Island but failed to see any Hong Kong DVDs (well only a few). Sentosa Island is like Disneyworld on a budget it does a decent history of Singapore and a monorail but that’s about it.