first backpacking trip

Yesterday we did a quick day trip into Malaysia for three dollars! yes i said three dollars.  It sucked tho so we left and came back to our clean lovely singapore where everyone knows english!  On our way back we met a little chinese dude who was a person trainer and was wearing these super bright baby blue mini shorts!  It was the funniest thing ever!  but he was so nice and very helpful and insisted on paying for our fare back to Singapore. This guy is a testiment that working out is the fountain of youth.  He is 47 and looks not a day over his early 30's.  When we got back into Singapore we walked down Orchard Road whgich for some reason I always call Orchard park.  It kind of reminded me of Vegas with all the big designer stores and lights.  It was decorated with the nicest Xmas decorations and lights.  I swear this place rivals new york.  the only thing newyork beats them with is it just has that xmas magic to it.  Today we got off to a late start.  While eating breakfast we met this guy named Victor from Virginia we now call McCaughnigy.  I cant spell his last name so from now on i will refer to him as m.m.  now i know my grammer and spelling are going to be shit today but im just so excited i cant even get this typed fast enough.  so this guy has been all over the world and after several cups of shitty coffee this morning we listened to his amazing stories about back packing nepal india africa pretty much everywhere in the world.  he is in teh military too and we had a lot of things to discuss about that.  Or he just got out of the military after but wants to get back in to go to afghanistan. imagine actually wants to get in just for that.  reminded me so much of matthew.  i told him all about matt so babe if your reading this you dont have to worry about me hanging out with a guy.  anyways it was raining hard core as it seems to here morning then at night but today it rained literally all day and were talking like can soak you from head to toe.  puddles are like little lakes!  so after walking in the rain our first stop of the day was the battle box.  which all i could think of was matt and his dad cause its one of those military history places.  basically it was a bomb shelter the british army stayed in while singapore was raided and when they surrendered to the japenese in 1942.  So interesting and authentic.  They had these maniqins that looked just like real ppl and played out the discussions of whether to surrender or not.  Showed how they used to send and recieve messages and decode them.  newspapers at the time, everything!  what amazes me and what stacey pointed out is how interested i am in this stuff now.  like before the military wouldn't have interested me at all it just amazes me how when you love someone what is important to them and their loved ones becomes important to you.  When we left there we got lucky and realized we were at the raffles hotel!  The raffles hotel is like a signature Singapore building that was build in 1887 and the drink the singapore sling was invented there.  So of course we had one, for 27 bucks!  but you know you just had to.  But this place was so amazing pics do it no justice i dont even know how to describe it.  ITs like a big while colonial style mansion. and when you go in the museums there's things from ppl who have been guests there in the past.  the royal family had pics there, old hollywood, and even post cards that were sent from there and stuff.  it was definately the highlight of my time here so far!  Along with our new friend we had the best day ever even if it was raining!!! Singapore is amazing I will be sad to leave it. Tonight we are going to the famous Clark Quey for some drinks with m.m.  ok so we just got back from clark which was kind of like white ave in ed but waaaaaaaaay nicer and too expensive so we left.  we met a bunch of irish guys who told me i looked like the virgin mary but were totally funny but made no sence. tomorrow we might go to indo instead of thailand.  M.M knows all about the islands there so we were thinking of starting there with him and then going up to meet amy.  So spontaneous. im loving this trip more and more.