So we had reached our final destination in Asia and were preparing to say adios to Will and also gearing ourselves up for Australia. We were due to meet up with our good friends Samo and Grainne in Signapore but unfortunately they had to cancel there flights which left us sad! :(                                                                                                                          We arrived in Signapore and before we even left the airport we got talking to these 2 guys, Scotty and Peter from Dallas Texas. We spent our 2 days in Signapore with these guys and they were good craic. We booked into a nice hostel in Little India called Fragrance hostel. First difference we noticed between Signapore and Thailand was that nobody was hastling us to get in there taxi or buy there crappy hand made bracelets. The second thing we noticed was that Signapore was NOT cheap! We didnt know it yet but Signapore would prove to be a medium between Australia and Thailand to help ease us off the cheap prices in Thailand and prepare us for how rediculously expensive Australia was going to be in comparison!! 

On our first day Ruth, Will, Pete, Scotty and myself took a train into town and had a wonder around chinatown. Its strange, because Signapore is so small and so built up you forget its a country and not just a big city! Chinatown was pretty cool, we went into a local market and got lunch at one of the stall type restaurants there. Then we went for a walk up to clarke quay which was labelled the hot spot of the city for bars and nightlife! Seeing as we were with a couple of yanks and back in the hustle and bussle of a big city we thought it fitting to go to Hooters for some wings and a few drinks!! But at 10 dollars a beer we quickly remembered ourselves and our budget and got some cans and went back to the hostel. After a fair amount of cans in the hostel and a debate over how country music was ''awesome'' or ''shite'' we headed back into clarke quay.

We got dropped off by the taxi man at the entrance to clarke quay which was a pedestrian zone similar to grafton street. We were just strolling through trying to get to grips with the place when out of nowhere i saw them - what was probably the best bar seats i had ever seen.....wheelchairs! The bar had some sort of disturbed hospital theme going on where the bar tables were operating tables, drinks were either served in plastic syringes or in a bag hanging from a metal frame (like a drip!) and of course the seats were wheelchairs!! I thought it was the greatest and the weirdest thing id ever seen! Sure enough we sat down and had a wheel about! There was a bunch of about 6 or 7 Aussie guys and girls there who were already on there 5th bucket of vodka flavoured syringes! We wheeled over and had a chat with them guys. One of them told me about there plan to burst out of the bar and make a dash for the big fountain at the end of the pedestrian zone! Our only hope was that the number of people in wheelchairs greatly out numbered the amount of staff on that night! We knew it wouldnt be easy because anytime we strayed more than a metre away from our table they were dragging us back - But the way i was looking at it was, if your bold or stupid enough to have your bar stools as wheelchairs you better expect a bit of mischief!! Will was showing off on his chair with his front wheels up trick which i could not do and Ruth was flying around the place laughing her head off (trying to pretend she felt guilty and that it was wrong - which it was - but she was loving it!!). Anyway when i explained what we were doing Will was never in doubt. So off we went a heard of about 11 wheelchairs bolting towards the exit and heading for the fountain! Dramatic version; Men were falling all around me, one wheelchair was rammed from the side - bodies thrown from there chairs. Behind me i could here the screams of captured comrads - but i couldnt turn around!! It was safety in numbers and survival of the fitest!! The fountain which shot up from the ground like exploding geysers was only metres away. I could hear the footsteps of the bar men getting closer and more hectic as i edged ever closer to the fountain! And then it hit me like a slap in the face - the wet jet of water coming up from the ground which signified my success!! i looked to my right to see the same expression of glee on one of the aussie blokes faces! We had made it. Seconds later we were grabbed from behind and wheeled back to the bar in shame but to a raptuous heroes welcome!!

Sorry about that guys i got a bit carried away there!! haha - was great fun though and it did actually go a little something like that. Having been kicked out of that place we went to a nigh club and had a few drinks! Me and Ruth tried to be clever and save money by sneaking gin in and just buying tonic - but sure enough a tonic water cost 10 dollars!! Rip off!! Will had one too many whiskeys and was on the prowl for his 4th Thai girl, and even though highly intoxicated and not in Thailand, he pulled it off!! Well done Will!

On our second day Scotty and Pete headed off to the National history museum and me and Ruth went to the Mint museum which was a museum of Toys. Will had a lie on!! The toy museum was okay, we saw some pretty cool toys but they were all way before our time. Id say it might have been a bit of a nastalgic experience for our parents but not us - we still hada laugh though. We all planned to meet up on the 71st floor of the swissotel at 6 oclock for drinks. Of course there was 2 swissotels in Signapore and although the one we were looking for was a 2 minute walk around the corner from the mint museum, me and Ruth walked about 2km to the wrong swissotel only to be then told it was back where we had just come from!! >:( angry smily!! Anyway we eventually all met up at the right place and it was worth the walk. From the top floor of this magnificent hotel you had a 360 degree view of the city. We had 2 or 3 drinks here and then hopped into a taxi to go to the signapore zoo night safari!!

Signapore zoo is cool and even better by night. There was an animal show first which they opened with a big white wolf coming out and howling at the moon - i thought this was really cool. they had loads of animals native to asia i had never seen before. After the show we got into these trams and were taken around the park. I couldnt help but think off Jurrasic Park! The scene where the cars breakdown outside the t-rex cage, except without the dinosaurs! Its pretty cool experiencing a zoo by night - its as if there are no people there, the animals are a lot more lively and you see way more! When we were at the lions one of them was roaring and it sounded spectacular. Although we were right beside him id say you could have heard him roar from anywhere in the park. We also got into the bat enclosure which was savage - massive bats flying right infront of your face. One of my favourites though had to be the flying squirrells! i had heard about them in college but to see them up close was cool! They can glide in mid air for rediculous distances - cool animals!

We didnt leave the zoo until about 12 at night so we just got a taxi straight back to our hostel. The next day we said our goodbyes to Will and headed for Australia!! Our first stop down under was Cairns!! Stay tuned