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Day One in Singapore and I'm suffering from the worst jet lag I've had in a while. It's currently midday and I'm doing everything in my power not to go back to sleep again (this means being sat up in bed in my pjs, but you know).

Serves me right for being cocky with my easy flight - whole row to myself one leg & spare seat second leg - but didn't capitalise and sleep (rookie error). Watched the entire first and only season of Alcatraz and 17 hours later of travelling, we got back to the flat. Welcome to our new home for the next few months! 

I'll get a few pictures of the actual flat itself once we've managed to completely clean it and put everything away. Currently living out of a suitcase, it's all fun and games! But "home" for now is a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom condo close to Chinese Garden MRT. 

 Yesterday, I picked up an MRT card (pretty much the same as an Oyster card where you just swipe on and off the metro and it subtracts the fare from your card) and we headed to Boon Lay to pick up a few bits and pieces for the flat. Trying to get 4 pillows and a doona through a tiny little metro turnstile was interesting! We live in between 2 big hawker centres, so we had dinner sat outside on plastic chairs. 2 massive plates of rice, Chinese pork and beans came to £2.70 - pretty much had to be carried home and passed out with exhaustion.

So today, the plan is/was to get out and explore, but this jet lag means all I want to do is curl up and watch Singaporean Olympic coverage. Previous experience tells me that it's going to take me a good week to get over this...or however long the Olympics lasts! 

Nade.