In Which You Die of Boredom

Those of you who know me well will understand that I am completely impatient with technology. Rather than learning how to use a software package by using help menus and the like, I would much rather ask somebody (much to the frustration of people at work). 

One example of this is that I couldn't figure out how to work WordPress through I want to move my blog over to it - so I asked my brother to do it for me (though I hope he knows I am with-holding payment until it is complete). I also only just started to use a feed reader (is that what they are called?) which may surprise all of you blogging purists.

The point of this gibbering is that it took me a total of 5 months between me buying my Mac and me opening up IMovie and beginning to use it. Then I discovered that it was a brilliant! Perfect for IT illiterate sods like me who can't use a computer. 

So I made this slide show of my Indonesia trip and opened up a YouTube account  (I only figured out how to embed videos a week or so ago) which is linked somewhere on the sidebar. I wouldn't recommend watching it all of the way through because It will probably bore you to tears, but I thought some folk might like it. Oh, and I apologies for the YouTube picture being cut off at the end - I couldn't be arsed to figure out how to get the whole picture on.

Next challenge, a podcast, though I have no idea what software to use. Any clues?

Completely randomly, The Artist also sent me this. I thought it was kind of funny.

1 Adult Please

Travelling alone can be pretty empowering. You can go where you want when you want and spend as much time as you like. You also get to meet some pretty interesting people (see picture of drunken Irishman with Indian dancer).

Today I went to the Changi Chapel and Museum on the site of Changi Prison (with a German Guy amnd a Finnish Girl. Its a pretty moving exhibition dedicated to the memory of the Englishmen, Australians and New Zealanders who were imprisoned there during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Very bizarre to see the letters and memories left their by former POWs and POW relatives who have been back to the site. The majority of the letters seemed to come from the small Yorkshire town of Barnsley.

However, I am looking forward to Pete arriving this afternoon as the city of Jakarta (my next destination) can be a little dodgy and apparently you cant move for people trying to rip you off, so safety in numbers is what I say...

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A Tale of Three Cities

Singapore is a pretty cool place. Hedged with skyscrapers and enormous glass buildings,

Singapore is certainly the place if you like to shop!

Which I dont unfortunately.

However, there are other sides to Singapore, and if you get away from the main riverside area a few tube stops away is a place called Little India (where the majority of the island's 20% Indian population live). Its an amazingly colourful part of the town, and I elected to stay here for the whole of my Singapore stay. There are small curry houses on every street corner and you can eat here for 4 singapore dollars which is little over a pound (struggling here with a lack of pound signs!)

Another side to Singapore is slightly less glamorous. Singapore is the second largest sea-port in the world (after Rotterdam), and there are cranes abosultely everywhere (it never said in the guide book that it hadnt been finished yet)! Sentosa island is located just off the south coast and pretty much an island of manufactured, man-made beaches designed to be an expensive resort town. And the view is pretty strange to me. Just row upon row of cargo ships and oil tankers (see photo)!

I went to a shopping centre last night with an Egyptian guy that I met this week as he was looking for a Mac - and electronics really are dirt cheap. The one we went to had 6 floors of electronics stores each with around 20 shops (so probably well over 100). I plan to severly annoy my Ipod obsessed brother by buying a 160GB Ipod for 70% of the price he paid for his 30GB one (I dont really want an Ipod, I just think it would be funny).

The whole trip is only tainted by two things: my bank decided to cancel my card as they thought someone may have obtained the detailes fraudulently over the net, and also I cant make outgoing calls on my mobile = lots of stress...