New Year's Day

This was not an early start! (apart from the 8am phone call's!)
I left the hotel around 12ish and wandered down into the city centre, which was strangely quiet. Already all the litter and detritus of the previous nights partying had gone and the place was spotless again. I had a coffee at Burger King and took the Metro down to the Waterfront at the Vivo centre which is a huge entertainments centre and the obligatory shopping centre. After wandering around for a while I took the Metro over to near Raffles Hotel and had a wander around it, just as I was about to go in a huge party of people turned up and there seemed to be security everywhere so I only got a view of the outside. A re-plan of things to do was in order and looking on the Map I noticed that only a couple of streets down was the Funan Centre. This is a huge mall dedicated to all things electronic. 5 floors of computers, laptops, cameras, and gadgets. I was like kid in a sweet shop. However the usual Singapore price range dissuaded me from buying anything. Walking back to the hotel I made my way back to the river and then came across a guy called Michael flying one of powered kites. I got talking to him about the kites and Singapore in general and we ended up comparing Singapore nad the UK for about the next hour just sat on the edge of the park land where he had been flying his kite. Back to the hotel I packed the bags ready for the flight out to Vietnam tomorrow.