Singapore status. Half my time over here in Singapore lies behind me. There has been so much to see and wonderful people to meet; there is a lot of frustration at times with uni but a lot of fun and laughter in our spare-time as well. Honestly, I have never felt school pride before but at NUS I really do. I work hard and the profs are high quality educators with real experience in their respective fields. I have worn the mascot costume, I have participated in sports competitions, studied hard and am planning to support the uni as an alumni.

 

Travel plans. I have a little bit over two months to go and lots more fun to come, I'm sure. Now for example we have just booked a paradise beach getaway in Malaysia - In two weeks it's time to go!

Religion aside, that's exactly what I did yesterday, a sunday getaway. Good times indeed! :)

Had such a fun daytime date today at Sentosa island here in Singapore. We started off with the underwater park with sharks, sea turtles, jellyfish (exciting neon light display!) as well as rays, sea lions and dolphins.

 

Spent the rest of the afternoon by the beach and after the sunset we randomly walked into an open air club area sporting the best house music I've heard here in a while (Ok, since Friday at Aoki's show!). All of this on a Sunday. :) We celebrated the great day with a mojito overlooking the laser show on the dark night sky of Sentosa and Siloso Beach! ♥

Last night my friends and I went to see Steve Aoki at Avalon! I have been longing to see him live for years. It was amazing, especially because it was Avalon's 1st Birthday so in celebratory fashion Steve "handed out" champagne and cake to everyone, Aoki style. That means #champagneshower and #cakeface :D

 

Aoki also brought a rubber boat for crowd surfing, just like he did in Sweden a couple of days ago. He was on for three hours and we were all going nuts on the dancefloor to his amazing dubstep mixes. Got to bed at 6 am! So worth it - I fell asleep with a smile on my face and my neon bracelet illuminating the night. I'm collecting such awesome club nights in this city!

I gotta do coursework all day, but afterwards we will host a little preparty at our penthouse and go out dancing with our charming friends, wohooo! 

 

 

This time the pink hair ends are mine and not inspo pics. Love it! Hair chalk is fun, this will make tomorrow's party outfit an easy pick.

 

And since the chalk dehydrates anyones hair completely I will go overdose on my hair oil afterwards - and hopefully make an appointment for a decent haircut at some point next week.

 

Singapore is 31 degrees all year and 100% humidity. Pretty sticky sometimes... I really miss the ''colder'' weather in Vietnam. I put on my new dress and went to the museums of the city for a cultural excursion all day. Needed to do this visit to be able to finish writing my cultural report for my Managing Communication Campaigns class by tonight. Ta-ta! *Update: I got an A on my report, I don't know if I should be offended but I heard the professor was surprised about how well-written it was. I guess they did not know I love to write pieces like this. Well...thank you! ;)

Being on exchange in Singapore offers many chances to travel as well. So far we have been to Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, and somehow I have managed to forget to bring proper PJs to each trip. Maybe cause I didn't remember to bring any from Sweden? :) So instead of writing my cultural report for class, I went to the shopping mall Vivo to get some cute PJs. 

 

I also did some grocery shopping because I noticed my fridge was empty after coming home from our trip to Vietnam yesterday. Had to get my favourite cereal with banana nut crunch! ♥ Ended up buying a lot and had to take a cab home, because I couldn't carry all of the bags in this humid weather. Paid less than 10 SGD all the way from the city to my student accommodation at NUS, you can't complain about the cab fare in Singapore!

We went to the casino! You are not allowed to enter if you are Singaporean so we suited up and took our respective international passports to try our luck one night. One of us bet his rent as a dare with himself...luckily he won. ;) I am not a fan of gambling, even though or maybe because I used to work as a croupier (Black Jack dealer) during my bachelor studies. I played the slot machines for a few coins and then joined the others to cheer for them.

 

You are not allowed to take pictures at the casino. We might have taken a sneaky snapshots or two but then we went to a nightclub instead - 1Altitude - while we were dressed up anyways. We had such a blast there. Fun people, good music and awesome nightclubs at amazing locations, like this rooftop bar several hundred metres above ground, really make for a good night! ♥

Had a wonderful day with a long lunch with friends and relaxed group work planning as well as a lot of rest and Gossip girl watching. Then I went for a run and had a nice cold shower. The nice day is about to end somewhere here. Imagine this: The fire alarm starts and they tell you to evacuate the building through the stairs immediately. Got it? Ok, now imagine this:

 

1. You live on the 25th floor.

2. You're wearing a towel.

3. You have to gather with hundreds of students on the grass outside of the building.

 

What is it with my banana obsession lately? In juice, smoothies, as a milkshake, sliced, diced, mashed, as banana bread and in pancakes (YUM!) Gone bananas? Surely. Could be that they taste so much better over here in Singapore...

Since I'm feeling well now I am going out for a jog with my favourite music! It's almost midnight so it should be a little bit colder outside. ♥

Aside from my somehow throwing a laundry hanger into my friends sealing fan - nothing happened :D -  there was a lot of other stuff going down at last nights Swedish theme party with all my Swedish and international friends. We continued at our penthouse after leaving the terrace behind. This was definitely one of the better, if crazier, party nights here on exchange! Another fun thing: Aside from the prepared Resorb (fluid replacement), I found a note next to my bed and have been spending the last hour trying to decifer it. I always find new, good music everywhere I go and I usually add it to my phone. Yesterday all I had to write it down was my mascara (?) it seems... Update: Turns out I meant the song Fallskärm by Timbuktu, hahaha!

What a wonderful party night with great people! We had decorated the 8th floor terrace of our building with red table cloths, red chinese lanterns and even a swedish flag - thanks to Sven! Everyone got big party hats, we listened to Swedish music, ate loads of shrimpies (because IKEA was out of Swedish crayfish for some reason), sang Swedish drinking songs and drank many bottles of Swedish nubbe, aka shots from IKEA. And check out my wonderful booklet for the party, haha. With songs, Swedish party rules and even a specially altered version of our university logo. Legal note! Non-commercial use only. ;) 

Zouk had the Swedish guys from Cazzette playing a DJ set last night and they were awesome! The boys went out prepartying before we met them at the club and everyone was in a crazy good mood. Some even more than others. :D I remember being lifted up in the air multiple times while we danced to the house and dubstep mixes, haha. ♥

Studying at NUS is quite intense at times. My post-it notes even got stuck to my clothes, I marked so many sections in my book. :) But now, no more studying...for this week at least. Cold or no cold, the weekend is here!

Look at him, so precious... He is a Schweizer Sennen. Dad's puppy has been living with him and my stepmom since I went to Singapore almost 7 weeks ago and even though I havn't met him yet - Skype aside - I love him already. Carlo, I'll come and visit you soon! ♥

Who would have thought it can be hard to find Thai cuisine among all the different restaurants and hawker centres with Malaysian, Indian, Indonesian, Chinese, Korean or Japanese (not much sushi, though) food here in Singapore? But now my friend Jaga who is from Singapore finally found a place.

 

I have been craving thai red curry for so long. They only had green curry at the place we went to tonight, but still fun to have Thai food in Singapore. Panaeng curry with creamy coconut will always be my favourite though! After that we went to Arab Street for some lounging in comfy seats with silky pillows. Found a café with my nickname while walking around as well: Blu Jaz Café!