Goodbye to SE Asia

I have been home for almost a week. I have been to work, 2 days, and been sick from work for 3 days. Sounds bad, but just my old and weak back that turned bad during a course in how to protect oneself in case of violent behavior from our young and promising teens. Are getting better, and are back at work in a few days. If I look away from my sore back and the early morning I had the first days home, it is pretty good to be home again too. The planning of some summer vacation have started off course, but since I have used all my vacation during this trip I will not manage to get much during the summer, just a little bit. More about that an other time.

Goodbye Palawan

I was leaving Palawan and heading for Singapore in my last blog post. The flight and entry to Singapore was painless, Singapore let me back in again. Had some nice flight neighbors one the plane from Palawan to Manila, a Philippino women with her young daughter and they insisted to share their cake and snack with me one the plane, very nice of them. They was also curios about where I was from and why I did not had my wife with me, which made me say ones more that I do not have a wife.

Shopping at Orchard

I checked back in at River City Inn hostel in Singapore, the same one as I stayed at when I arrived SE Asia 6 weeks ago. I slept in the big dorm this time, but nice an quite in it, and a good bunk bed in between 20 other bunk beds. After my check in and a shower I went straight out for dinner and then up to Zsofi tapas bar in Little India for a couchsurfing meeting. Lots of people attended, even several Norwegian and 4 of us was from Stavanger, how weird is that. Met up with Heidi there, and spend most of the time talking with her, always nice to meet her again, but also some of the other  CS’rs that was there off course. But way to much people to talk to most of them. I also had my first late night out  and a bit to many beers on this trip, since I left Zsofi around 01. Had a good time out, fun. The 2 next days I did my planned shopping, and some more shopping than the planned one. I also met up with Heidi and her friend again on my last day, Saturday, for Sushi, and good sushi it was. I also managed to turn over a full glass of water by the table at the restaurant over my shorts, the couch and floor. Embarrassing, and I never knew it a normal glass could hold that much water, it was very wet.

In Singapore, by the river

The last days my SE Asia trip this year was good, even I didn’t had that much to do in Singapore I still like the city, always nice to come back there. The trip it self have also been good, even if I have been a bit bored some of the days. I must also admit that I have missed some company some days, specially in the evenings over dinner I would have been nice to have some company. I am sure that I would have had a different vacation if Denise had been able to make it as planned, it would for sure been less diving and other activities on Palawan since she don’t dive. I would also have been interesting to travel with someone for the first time in my life, and I believe it would have been good. An other time.

Havaianas have been parked.

That’s it for this time and it is time to park the havaianas for some time, and hope they will come to use again here home during the summer.

Next year am I turning 50, and I do think that I should be somewhere very amazing and spectacular on that day, March 11th. 2014 it is
 

Any good idea?