Headed to Singapore today...

Swaye

Staying at the JW Marriott on South Beach. I hope it is just like Miami but without the cubans. Hookers are legal, but cocaine will put you in jail for life. Hookers it is. This flight is going to be painful.

oregonblitzkrieg

Who are you, James Bond? Closest I've been in that area is Kuala Lumpur. One of the most dangerous looking cities I've been to.

AZDuck

Kuala Lunpur is super safe unless you're Kim Jong Un"s half brother. Bangkok is much more dangerous.

PM to @Swaye. Go to the Maxwell Road hawker centre and get the chicken rice. If you can get the duck rice it's even better because of fatty duck flavor. Never mind that you'll be eating my cousins.

Old Singapore Chinatown is bad ass. Also awesome are the breakfast kopitams. Spring rolls, custard toast and super strong coffee. Get some. The prostututes are there as well.

The Raffles Hotel isn't what it once was. The bar is for tourists and they use a pre made mix for their Singapore Slings. Go elsewhere.

The pool at the Marina Bay Sands is totally worth it.

After Tokyo, Singapore is probably the best food city in Asia. I'm jealous. There's no beach at South Beach, just an FYI. You're next to downtown. Old Chinatown is close.

Also remember that Singapore is on the equator, so hot and humid as fuck year round.

Swaye

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Who are you, James Bond? Closest I've been in that area is Kuala Lumpur. One of the most dangerous looking cities I've been to.

If my Pinto was an Aston Martin and PBR was like a Martini I'd pretty much be an exact replica of Bond. Without the money. And nice clothes. But I have much nicer pistols than that stupid Walther PPK crap.

I've always wanted to go to Kuala Lumpur. Hope to next year. This is my fifth trip to Singapore...pretty meh at this point. I just hate the flight. Almost 15 hours to Tokyo and then 7 1/2 more to Singapore. FML.

Swaye

AZDuck said:

Kuala Lunpur is super safe unless you're Kim Jong Un"s half brother. Bangkok is much more dangerous.

PM to @Swaye. Go to the Maxwell Road hawker centre and get the chicken rice. If you can get the duck rice it's even better because of fatty duck flavor. Never mind that you'll be eating my cousins.

Old Singapore Chinatown is bad ass. Also awesome are the breakfast kopitams. Spring rolls, custard toast and super strong coffee. Get some. The prostututes are there as well.

The Raffles Hotel isn't what it once was. The bar is for tourists and they use a pre made mix for their Singapore Slings. Go elsewhere.

The pool at the Marina Bay Sands is totally worth it.

After Tokyo, Singapore is probably the best food city in Asia. I'm jealous. There's no beach at South Beach, just an FYI. You're next to downtown. Old Chinatown is close.

Also remember that Singapore is on the equator, so hot and humid as fuck year round.

Good pro tips. I am actually there over a weekend so I will get some time to wander. 12 days total trip time, but 3 days of that is just flying to and from. Checked the weather app and it said 89 and thunderstorms every single day for ten days. Guess it's the rainy season. FML again.

AZDuck

It's like a tropics thing. Like clockwork at 1400 or so. Mornings are nice.

Swaye

AZDuck said:

It's like a tropics thing. Like clockwork at 1400 or so. Mornings are nice.

Funny. This is a working trip and I am scheduled to be with the client every day from 0900-1300. FML for the third time.

oregonblitzkrieg

AZDuck said:

Kuala Lunpur is super safe unless you're Kim Jong Un"s half brother. Bangkok is much more dangerous.

No. It's not.

https://www.timeout.com/kuala-lumpur/blog/website-lists-kl-as-second-most-dangerous-city-in-asia-041216

https://lipstiq.com/2013/46631/kuala-lumpur-ranked-as-6th-most-dangerous-city-in-the-world

AZDuck

oregonblitzkrieg said:

AZDuck said:

Kuala Lunpur is super safe unless you're Kim Jong Un"s half brother. Bangkok is much more dangerous.

No. It's not.

https://www.timeout.com/kuala-lumpur/blog/website-lists-kl-as-second-most-dangerous-city-in-asia-041216

https://lipstiq.com/2013/46631/kuala-lumpur-ranked-as-6th-most-dangerous-city-in-the-world

Gimme a fucking break. This is like those fucking stupid Fox News stories talking about "no-go" zones in Stockholm. Here are the hundred most dangerous cities in the world, by murder rates:

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2017-4/#2-acapulco-mexico-had-11324-homicides-per-100000-residents-49

KL and other decent places keep track of minor crimes (like muggings and theft), so when there is a spike it gets picked up. Places like Caracas and San Pedro Sula don't because they're too busy scraping people's brains off the sidewalks.

But even that list isn't really accurate, because in places like Kigali, Boma, and Kinshasa they don't even keep track of murders, and in places like Raqqa, Damascus, Tal Afar, and Kabul there's artillery rounds going off and shit. Plus in northern Burma there's ongoing genocide, and in India thousands of people meet violent ends every day, but nobody really notices because the place is so overcrowded and poor.

You're in more danger at a Mexican beach resort than you are in KL.

dflea

obk hasn't been there but he knows all about it.

AZDuck

I drunkenly wandered around KL for three days and only a couple of bar girls tried to rub sarin in my face

BearsWiin

I went to Cairo many years ago

Pitchfork51

I avoid places with too many brown people.

GrundleStiltzkin

Pitchfork51 said:

I avoid places with too many brown people.

How's Arizona working for you?

yobates

Your career as an international gay porta potty is really taking off

oregonblitzkrieg

AZDuck said:

I drunkenly wandered around KL for three days and only a couple of bar girls tried to rub sarin in my face

I dont think you've actually been there, Asian travel superiority guy. Lets find out. Whats the view like flying into KL, right before you land?

Pitchfork51

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Pitchfork51 said:

I avoid places with too many brown people.

How's Arizona working for you?

I'm moving to Las Vegas next week

So.....shitty.

dflea

oregonblitzkrieg said:

AZDuck said:

I drunkenly wandered around KL for three days and only a couple of bar girls tried to rub sarin in my face

I dont think you've actually been there, Asian travel superiority guy. Lets find out. Whats the view like flying into KL, right before you land?

Jesus.

STFU

YellowSnow

BearsWiin said:

I went to Cairo many years ago

ISAFNRC.

Pitchfork51

YellowSnow said:

BearsWiin said:

I went to Cairo many years ago

ISAFNRC.

Pretty sure shooting ragheads is socially acceptable.

oregonblitzkrieg

dflea said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

AZDuck said:

I drunkenly wandered around KL for three days and only a couple of bar girls tried to rub sarin in my face

I dont think you've actually been there, Asian travel superiority guy. Lets find out. Whats the view like flying into KL, right before you land?

Jesus.

STFU

Or what? Go hunt for clams on your favorite shitty beach, when you find one thats the size of a pussy, stick your cock in its shell and pretend its a real cunt. Like you do every time.