2 nights ago I went to the Singaporean Night Safari with some friends, which is some kind of zoo at night (...) where you are in a tram and ride around to see the animals, which are not behind fences, and it makes the ride quite exciting. I saw mainly some elephants, tigers, lions, some kind of crocodile, bears, and bats. Because everything was very dark, it was impossible to take any pictures.

So here are some pictures (still in bad quality) of my bicycle ride along the South East coast I had today with Singaporean friends.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to see all the cargo ships behind the palm tree but it is really impressive to see how many of them are waiting to enter to harbour, and it makes the beach much less attractive. Anyway I spotted not far from there a "cable-ski" lagoon and I think I will go and try it, it is just like water ski, but you are pulled by a cable.

Then you can see a sort of double picture of central Sg with a football field in the center of the town.

I am still in process of discovering the place, with its local peculiarities...

Here is the 3rd picture of the food court it didn't manage to publish in the previous post.

As you can see it is big.

Yo everybody, welcome to Singapore, the land of permantly high temperature and palm trees. I finally made it to the famous island, with a little delay, and a 7 hour wait at Doha airport because the plane was waiting for other transit planes....

Anyway I safely got to the campus situated at the very West end of Singapore.

After checking in my room with an Indonesian roommate (roomy) I changed rooms yesterday to now be with a Chinese roomy that I haven't met yet. Hope he will be a nice guy.
To give you a short description of the NTU (Nanyang Technological University)campus, I would just say it is enormous! There 16 halls of residence, each one of them inhabited by a big number of students (it is impossible to know how many there are in each but I would say 300 to 500).

So here are the first pictures of the place I can show you. Sorry about the quality, the next ones should be much better.

These first 2 picutres are the financial and business district in the very centre of Singapore. The weather looks bad on the pictures in fact there was just too much sun for my bad camera.

These 3 pictures were taken in a food court, the local special restaurant type. This is how it works: you have a very wide central area with tables where people sit down to eat. All around it there are dozens of mini restaurants where you get the food from, each one of these selling different types of food, mostly Asian of course, such as Japanese, Chinese, Indian, others specialised in soups or duck or dumplings or other things. Eating one or two dishes there costs only around 5-7 S$, and you can find them in each mall, all the canteens on the campus are based on this model

For this fisrt post on my brand new blog, I am cheating a little because I am not yet in Singapore but comfortably set in my room in Colombes, and this explains why the date of this post will be wrong.

I wanted to show you my first real contact with Singapore (from now on I will call it Sg because Singapore is too long to type each time), my plane ticket. As you can see I am leaving on Saturday 22nd, in 9 days and I will have a 5 hour stop in the lovely (?) Doha, Qatar. The whole trip should take about 19 hours, without taking into account the time zones. So let's hope my luggage and myself get there without any trouble.

See you in Sg!

Have a good week

Je tiens à m'excuser auprès de mes amis Français qui vont passer sur ce blog mais pour pouvoir partager mes expériences avec un maximum de personnes, je vais tout écrire en anglais.

Alors ... Ready ? Go!