We arrived at Changi Airport on the night of 16th January at 2315 hrs, 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Since ingatkan sampai lambat, kami takde la book hotel untuk malam tu. Rugi pitih je. Sekali pilot bawak laju gila. We decided to spend the night in the airport anyway. Okay. Now. Changi airport ade tiga terminal. Kitorang sampai kat the newly-upgraded Terminal 1 (bukan Seremban punya). Departure / Arrival Hall dia is joined together, memang awesome. Carpeted - boleh rilek je tido atas lantai. Free foot massages. Watch full-length movies from their flat screen TVs. Macam rumah kan. If you dare, stay inside the arrival hall until you're ready to get your passport stamped / to start melancong. We spent only about half an hour there, pastu baru pegi customs counter. Abang kaunter pun surprised - "Ingatkan dah habis, rupanya ade lagi!" - sebab sume AirAsia passengers yang naik dengan kitorang dah check out pun. Kalau cerdik sikit, check for next flight coming in from your hometown and check out with them to avoid suspicion - 'ape la budak-budak ni buat kat dalam'. Kalau takde pun rilek suda. Takkan nye dia marah. Oh yeah, when we arrived, yang stamp pasport tu semua Melayu siap borak-borak. Orang Singapore peramah sampai pelik dibuatnye.
Kat terminal 1 kedai-kedai dia biasa je. Nak best naik Skytrain free je pegi terminal lain, terminal 2 ade shopping2. Terminal 3 ade Slide. Spend $10 dalam airport dapat satu token bole main gelongsor empat tingkat. Kat basement 2 ade free testing - tapi 1.5 tingkat je la. Jangan lupa amik brochures yang diorang letak-letak tu. Study it, move around and you'll not notice it was morning. Also see this: Free things to do at Changi airport. For in house wireless service, approach Info Counter with your passport and mintak password. Dia bagi free to use with your wireless device for four hours. Dah habis mintalah lagi. Kalau tak mahu buat pape, duduk lepak tido mane-mane diam-diam. Oh yeah, malam pertama kat Singapore, spend $6 untuk Starbucks sebab nak tumpang tido kan.
This trip was thoroughly unplanned. Before pegi cuma beli tiket ke sana and booking bilik hotel satu malam, pastu cari range harga tiket bas balik KL. For me, memang berani mati la kalau pegi overseas trip tak plan. Nanti balik menyesal macam-macam. Kami cuma tahu tempat nak pergi Sentosa and Orchard Road, pastu nak pegi beli kain tapi tak tahu kat mane. Jadinye. Make use of the maps they provided for free. Google places you want to go, things you want to do "beli kain kat singapore, singapore budget trip, makan kat singapore" dan sebagainye. Ah tapi mudah je, jangan risau.
Pagi tu kita naik MRT ke arah City. Mase ni excited la nak start melancong kan. Hotel kitorang kat Geylang. Single trip Changi Airport - Aljunied station cost $1.90. Oh ye, MRT ni kalau takde EzLink (macam TouchNGo), kena beli tiket kat machine. Sediakan small change. Tiket dia macam kad la, lepas guna refund balik dapat $1. So kita bayar $2.90, tapi kira $1.90 la sebab $1 tu bole refund. Ada faham? $1 tu guna untuk rolling je la. Jangan lupa refund sebelum balik kalau xnk jadikan tiket tu souvenir keke. Sampai hotel, simpan barang. Hotel kitorang book kat sini tapi keyword yang guna untuk google dah lupa. Try lah "budget hotel Singapore, cheap hotel" ke apa ke. We split $93 between four people for a family room. Considering its a hotel, it's quite cheap, sebab kalau nak tido Singapore comfortably for the night you really have to spend about 20 bucks even for a backpackers hostel UNLESS you're ready to sleep in a 20-bed mixed gender room - that one is less than $8. Kalau book awal, dapat la kot all-female room ke all-male ke. I didn't regret our room, but I regretted choosing the hotel - it was in the red light district of Geylang, felt so uneasy walking between the hotel and MRT station. We initially wanted to stay in another hotel, but saw through the Google Street View that this one is situated in a more lively area with a lot more shops and stuff. I have read somewhere that Geylang is a red light district, but failed to make the connection. We arrived at our hotel that morning all satisfied with the area - bustling with people, near to MRT station etc. That afternoon we took a ride in a taxi (that's another story) and the surprised driver told us about it, THEN only we started seeing a whole new world. That evening I almost died (METAPHORIC!) walking back to hotel, drenched in my own paranoic cold sweat. Singapore's crime rate is really low, by the way.
End of part 1, I'll continue, I promise!
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