BITS OF JOYCE: singapore

adventure

This time last year I was in the city where as if it just came out of a magazine. A year have passed and that long this post has been sitting in my drafts. Countless times I tried to write about Singapore, but I always come up with none. So here I am again, trying my luck to put it all into words.

Believe it or not, I was giddy and excited to explore this city. But from the moment we arrived, things weren't working for us. Singapore wasn't very welcoming. We had hotel mishaps which made us pay for higher rate, we also got a taste of rudeness from the locals quite a lot during our stay there, we were surprised by what we saw on the train, and there were instances that I was so frustrated that made me shut. On another note, SG is quite expensive, I have known that $1 is equivalent to Php 30+ but it never occurred to me that food and almost everything is "that" expensive. Albeit, that was entirely my fault because as they always say ignorance is a crime.

To tell you honestly, it's not all bad. Despite the mishaps, Ali and I had fun exploring the city on our own. Everything is beautiful, like I said earlier, it's as if it came out of the magazine, everything is picture perfect. We've met other travelers too and had our just for laughs moments.

There was this one instance that Ali and I were completely moved... On our way to purchase train tickets to KL, we got lost and this old Singaporean man with a staff whom we asked was too kind to help us on which bus and train to ride on, he even accompanied us up to the ticket booth. It was one of the nicest things a stranger has done for me. :)

I remember, when we got home and I was browsing through our photographs, I was thinking about the things we could have done better like waking up a bit early so that we could visit more places or more time to explore the city. We were not able to explore SG as widely as he hoped - I haven't been in the heart of Little India nor stayed longer at Botanical Gardens - but the places we did get to see didn't fail to fascinate us, nonetheless.

This adventure was life-changing and it taught me so many things that made me wiser and stronger. Plans may fail, you get lost a couple of times, get discouraged - but you'll learn and realize that everything happens for a reason

Come to think of it... Maybe, just maybe, it's a reason or a sign for me to come back, to give Singapore another chance. And I surely will.

Click here to read my KL ADVENTURE.

Disclaimer:

All opinions are entirely based on my experience.

All photographs were taken and are owned by me and my husband.