Singapore Part 1

For those who didn't know, we were down in Singapore for a gig over at Esplanade on 3rd Oct. This was the first time playing in Singapore and i didn't expect it to come so early but it's all good. The gig was organized by Aging Youth Production and the event went for 3 days with bands from Malaysia. We were the first band to kick start the whole thing on Friday evening.

Being the Raya holidays, the road heading down to Singapore was super quiet and we departed on Thursday. After much delay, we finally took off at around 7pm. With several ciggie breaks for the other 2 member, we finally arrived in Singapore around 12am but we got lost while trying to find our hotel cause we had no idea how to get there.

Of all the places, our friend went and booked a hotel over at Geylang. This was the first time i've ever really been to Geylang. All the other times i was in Singapore, it was always the nicer side of things but this time, i saw the sleazy side of it.

I'm sure you've heard a lot about Geylang and if anything, it only served to remind me why it's called the red light district of Spore. When we finally found our way there, we realized that our hotel which was called Fragrance had a lot of other buildings around. After that i kinda realized it was some sort of love hotel. Lol. In Geylang itself, there was one in almost every street. No joke.



To get there, we had to turn in at some lorong, which was choke full of prostitutes! They're all by the side of the road trying to drag customers. Almost every lorong had them and some would be in a line for you to choose. The thing about them is that they're super hot. Most of them actually and if you were to spot them in town, you'd never know they were prostitutes. Sorry but no pics of them cause i'll probably get bashed up by the pimp for doing so. I've heard a lot of violent stories about them so yeah, just forget about it.

Anyway, we went straight to the room and it's the smallest hotel room i've ever been to and for the 4 of us in a room, it was cramped to the max.


So after putting down our stuff, we went off in search for supper. Found a food court and the whole place felt like it was just 9pm and the streets sure was lively. After eating we decided to walk through the lorongs.

Sure enough, the girls were trying to pull you and grab your hand. Lol. Our drummer was underaged and i guess he was scared so he stayed in the room. Just walking through those streets really didn't really make me feel safe. After sight-seeing, we headed up to our room. Was so tired and went to bed. That night i couldn't get a wink of sleep. It was uncomfortable and our drummer was loudly snoring and moving around in his sleep.

to be continued...