I’ve been so busy and have been neglecting my travel blog site. But, here I am staying at one of Singapore Sentosa hotels waiting for my lab partner to show up. The lab has been taking up most of my energy and time, and what’s even worse is I’ve barely started the trial section!
Anyways, back to Sentosa! My lab mate finally showed up, he’s a grad student from my lab and was happy to come with me. The island is absolutely beautiful and the weather was perfect. It was all sunshine, which means I’ll not suffer any vitamin D deficiency today. We found tons of things to do on the island, but we found that everything had a high cost associated with it. Sentosa Island isn’t like Disneyland where there’s basically one price to get in and virtually the rest is free, no, Sentosa is a place where everything costs, and it’s expensive.
The one thing I liked about Sentosa, besides the excellent beaches is Sentosa has pink dolphins ! Well, not truly pink, but apparently, these dolphins are born grey, but as they age, they turn pink. Their belly turns pink first, then their dorsal fins and finally the rest of their body. Of course, now, if they turned purple… well pink will do.
After beaching it, we checked out the laser fireworks show, which I can’t compare to some of the other ones I’ve attended. This one’s pretty darn good. Then we went to get something to eat. We both found that the language barrier to be difficult. We were under the impression that Singapore’s language was mostly English, but this was not the case. I couldn’t get my waiter to understand that I wanted to substitute the beef for mushrooms. So, when my dish arrived, I had to send it back three times! Finally, the cook came out and he knew a little English and understood my request.
My lab partner and I headed back to my hotel, and we once again delved into or lab project.