it sure ain't chinatown in nyc!

Peekaboo! Lanterns on the Glutton's Bay promenade hanging for the Chinese Mooncake/Lantern Festival that was taking place.
The Mosque at the end of the pedestrian mall where my hostel was. It is the largest mosque in Singapore and we were woken up every morning at 5 am to the loudest call to prayer! If that doesn't get you going in the morning I don't know what will!
Sleepy Sam's Hostel where I stayed for 3 nights. It was located in the Arab quarter between Arab Street and Baghdad Street! yikes! It was great though, very clean and centrally located.
Richard and Hayley, travellers from the UK who I met at Sleepy Sam's, enjoying the street food from the perfectly named "Glutton's Bay" .

Hello from Shanghai! I haven't been able to update for the last few days, so i'll back track a bit.

I left Singapore by bus for a 5 hour ride to Kuala Lumpur, where I was staying for just one night. After finally finding my hotel (the Novotel, not the Nova Hotel or the Novatel Hotel! I forgot to write down the address before I left Singapore, and the bus dumped me in the middle of Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown. A nice bellman at another hotel tried his hardest to help me find the address, but came up with those other two and not the actual one I was staying at.) I finally found a Starbucks, and a very nice aussie who happened to be sitting there with her laptop waiting for her tour group she was leading to arrive looked up the correct address for me, I hopped in a cab to the correct hotel. The few days of heat and humidity in singapore, combined with the incredible haze in the air due to fires in Indonesia must have tired me out. I crashed when I arrived at the hotel, and woke up a few hours later and set out to find some dinner and figure out where I was. The hotel was around the corner from the Petronas Towers, headquarters of the Petronas Oil Company, and one of the main tourist attractions in KL- also the tallest twin towers in the world. They are very impressive. I found dinner in the mall attached after wandering around for a while.

The next day I made my way back there, hoping to go up to the viewing level close to the top, despite the thick haze again. CLOSED ON MONDAYS! :(

That seemed to be all I could have done in the short time I had left before I had to head to the airport, so I wandered around the mall again, amazed at how western everything was (it could definitely hold its own against South Coast Plaza!)

I checked out of the hotel, caught the monorail to the Central Train Station and then another monorail straight to the airport for my flight to Hong Kong.

I spent the night at an airport hotel near the hong kong airport and woke up early to have breakfast and do some research about getting to Shanghai. I ended up booking a (expensive :( ) flight at the airport, as it seemed to be the only option.

After a quick 2 hour flight and an almost equally long taxi ride into the city- here I am!

I am planning on meeting up with my friend Simone tomorrow- a girl I met in my Hebrew class a the University of Haifa. Should be nice to reconnect after 5 years. She is in town visiting her boyfriend who is studying Chinese here.

Thats all for now- it's almost midnight and I should get some sleep.

Until next time!