Since my last serious post a long time has passed and many things have happend. I'm sorry for not writing within in the last 4 weeks, but I just enjoyed my stay here a bit. From my time in Singapore not even one whole week now is left anymore and I'm getting sad of having to leave all this. But of course I'm also looking forward to seeing all of you again in Germany.

The weekend after the Bali weekend I tried wake boarding the first time in my life. We rent a boat at Ponggol Marina Country Club (which is in the Northern part of Singapore and very close to Malaysia's heavy industry:-)). It is so much fun and a really great alternative for snowboarding. (Especially as the water is softer and warmer then the snow!). After that I did it 2times more and am now a kind of pro. Yesterday I even started to jump a little bit.

Singapore - Wakeboarding

In the evening I went to little India where a Tamil festival called Thai Pusam took place the whole day. Men in all ages stick needles and meat hooks into their skin, where they either hang some lemons or milkpots or herbs on it or the carry heavy racks with pictures of Indian gods on it. The guys don't seem to suffer and it doesn't bleed at all, as they seem to be in trance. Every now and then they stop the whole procession (which leeds through Little India from one temple to another) and everyone starts dancing and singing. The cause why they do all this, is to bid the gods for something they want to achieve in future for themselves and their families. Despite it is really disgusting to see all the hooks and needles, it was a really happy festival.

Singapore - Thai Pusam Little India

On Sunday of that weekend I finally managed to go to Bukit Timah Nature Resereve, part of the green lung of Singapore. It's a left part of the rainforest that covered originally the whole island. And there are thousends of different plants, monkeys, monitor lizzards, squirrels and lots of other creatures.

During the next week the "MUSE"concert took place in Singapore Indoor Stadium. It was so amazing and worth every single cent I paid for it.

Singapore - Muse Concert

Next weekend: Wakeboarding again on Saturday and on Sunday I went with three guys from the German Television ARD to the Singapore Airshow, on of the largest Airshows in Asia (what ever that means). I saw lot's of nice airplanes, helicopters, and as it seemed to be more a militairy fare then a real airshow, also weapons, Leopard 2 tanks and all that stuff. As a grand final some pilots of the Singaporean and US Airforce showed really amazing feats in the air.

And on the next day Christian, Philipp and Patric arrived in Singapore. We did some sightseeing and also some (more) partying. It was a really exhausting week for me, but I also explored some new parts of Singapore with them. E.g. we went to Pulau Ubin, a small Island North of Singapore that looks like Singapore probably looked 50years ago. Small houses, wide forests... And we went again to the green lung of Singapore, but this time we walked all the way through, not only the Bukit Timah part :-) It was about 25km walk.

On friday 13th of Feb my parents finally arrived in Singapore with a delay of 1day and 4hours and without lugged, which all was caused by the snow chaos in Munich. Incredible for me to heare about something like that:-)

In the night from 13th to 14th of February the Lunar New Year startet with great fireworks at Marina Bay and Lion-Dances at the Chinese temples. It is really amazing to see all the traditional and old celebrations mixed up with modern elements (like plastic tigers infront of 200 year old temples).

Singapore - Chinese New Year and the Time arround

And on 15th of February I went to Malaysia with my parents. We first were one night in Kuala Lumpur, where we looked at KL Tower, on of the highest Television Towers in the world and also at Pertonas Towers. Despite that I have the impression, that KL is not really worth a travel. It seems more confused and less personal then Singapore.

The next day we went to Taman Negara, the oldest rainforest in the world and stood there for 4days in a hotel right at the entrance of the National Park. For getting there from KL we first had a 2.5hours Bus ride and after that 3 more hours on a boat that went up the river Tembling. We did a hike on the first day that included also a Canopy walk on the highest hill in the area of the hotel. On the second day we went to some cascades in the river where we had a bath in natural whirlpools. In the evening we visited a village from the original inhabitants of that area, called "Orang Asli". The dinner we always had on some floating restaurants on the river where they cooked the freshest fish out of the river. We did a night wlak through the jungle and saw some really scary and huge insects, spiders large like my hand, but also nice pigs, monkes, squirrels, ... (And some leaches tried to suck the blood out of me :-))

Malaysia - KL and Taman Negara

On Saturday then we went from Taman Negara via KL to Langkawi, an Island in the North-western part of Malaysia, right at the border to Thailand. It was more or less a beach holiday with lots of swimming. One day we went up to a mountain by cable car where we had a really great view over the Adaman Sea with all its island. We drove arround the Island and had visited the Aquarium (not worth it) there. Another day we did Kajaking on Mangrove rivers where we saw lots of very colourful birds. And the last day we went by 1hour of ferry-ride to another small island for snorkeling. It is so amazing to see that colourful underwater world with fishes in every sizes and also some small and so amazing sharks. The sharks just swam arround the legs of the people and didn't even care what happend there. They are so elegant and fascinating...

Malaysia - Langkawi

And that's it. In one week I'll be back to Munich. Have a great time until then:-)