singapore and being attacked by monsters.

so i've got an hour of internets before i need to leave the hostel. time to get out as many stories as i remember.

got into Singapore on Tuesday night after an awesome flight. finally saw some episodes of Chuck (the sandworm episode if anyone has seen it), i think its coming to Aus tv soon. watch it. best US show in years. caught the metro into the city and after getting lost, wait no, 'exploring' little india for a couple of hours, finally found the hostel. carrying around that massive backpack by the carry strap got old after about 5 minutes, but i figure if i do that once a month, i'll be the freaking hulk by the time i get back. beds were covered in plastic, but it was a decent place apart from that. called footprints. you should go there.

spend all day (and a fair chunk of the night) at the zoo. so many awesome stories about that place. such an awesome place. there are a whole bunch of animals that just jump around in the trees next to the pathways. i think i saw at least 4 or 5 different primates free roaming. plus orangutans in the trees above the walkways. its so crazy the first time you look up and theres a big male sitting 5 metres above you just watching people go by. and the baboon enclosure is nuts. chances are that no one is interested in hearing this, but its my blog and i want to write about it. 70 baboons in one enclosure. its insane. i think in the end i sat there watching them for at least 3 hours. so much better than any zoo in Aus.

and they have these awesome walk-in enclosures. if you ever go there make sure you go into the reptile walk-in. as soon as i was in there i noticed this green iguana in a tree, so i walk around to get a better look. im there maybe 2 or 3 minutes when i feel something brush against my foot. i look down and i see this: http://jpatokal.iki.fi/photo/travel/Singapore/Zoo/Iguana_Orange.JPG (not my photo, but its the same iguana) except his throat sack is all puffed out and hes glaring and hissing a little bit. and hes about a metre and a half long. fun times. im actually a little surprised that i didnt scream like a little girl. i was feeling like a bit of a clown after that, until i was walking along a little later and some woman has a pissy little skink fall on her hat. she just brushed it off, looked down and flipped out. i dont think i've ever heard anyone scream that much in my life. i think she thought that since she touched it she was going to get ebola or something. it was a rad looking lizard as well.

Got my first taste of walking through monsoonal rain as well. in a weird way it was kinda refreshing. until the rain stopped and your clothes won't dry out because of the humidity.

night safari is awesome as well. its a completely different zoo right next to the normal one. only open between 6 and 11 pm, but full of nocturnal animals and really well laid out. plus they have this crazy 'fish spa'. you pretty much sit with your feet in an aquarium full of cleaner fish and they nibble away at your dead skin. the little ones just feel like bubbles. the bigger ones, yeah. they feel like a fish biting you. but in a good way. the water was also cool and moist (sorry. inside joke) a lot of people flipped out about it all, but after a day trekking around in mid 30s with insane humidity and monsoonal showers it felt pretty good. and then i went back to the hostel to sleep (i know i've already made one joke about USA stories, but they're just too easy to pass up)

and now im off to phnom penh. im pretty sure that im gonna have internets when im there, but if not i'll post again when i get the chance. hope the rest of the civilised world is going radly for everyone.