Singapore Day 1 ish (July 22-23) - The Long Road

Why hello there, it's been a long time. Just over 4 years to be more specific. I think it's as good a time as any to start again, because I might actually have interesting things to say for the next few weeks.

As some of you may know, I recently started a great new career with TradeGecko. As part of this new adventure, I need to spend 2 weeks training and learning the ins and outs at the HQ in Singapore. This was a scary and exciting proposition for me. With a young family and never having been anywhere remotely like this, I gave it some thought and decided to jump in feet first. My lovely wife gave me the great idea to write down as much as I could, because it's hard to remember all of the great things you see. So here we are and I'll try to keep with it most days. Thanks my dear.

So day 1 is a bit deceiving, as it involved a lot of flying and waiting and really spreads over a few calendar days. I left Friday at 1:45am and took a nice short 15 hour flight to Taiwan. You can see flight path takes you as far north as Alaska and way across the Pacific Ocean.

This was an experience because I don't sleep on planes generally (slept for about 2 hours), and the way this timing works meant that we were in the dark for about 90% of the flight. I did have time to watch four movies (Zootopia, The Jungle Book, London Has Fallen and Batman vs Superman) and read some of my book (End of Watch by Stephen King).

Once that long haul was done I only had a much more manageable 4 hour and 23 min flight to Singapore. I knocked out one more movie (Money Monsters) and read more, so not all bad. Once I finally got to Singapore at 12pm local time on Saturday, I have been awake for roughly 36 hours, minus the little cat nap and was very excited to take on this new life experience.

So that's a long way of saying that, the long journey is done for a few weeks and now it's time to start learning and seeing things.

Day 1 Learnings:

• Alcohol is really expensive here, food is pretty cheap and yummy. 
• They drive on the left like GB, didn't realize that
• Chinatown here is pretty cool, but not overly different than the one in Toronto (I know, Chinatown in Singapore is kind of funny to some of you)
• Customs officials have a hard time with your passport here if you have a shaved head in life but not in your picture...
• I watched two cops chase down someone who stole something, tackle him,handcuff him and nobody drew a weapon. Was glad to see that. 
• I'm Big here. Not famous, just physically big. 

Thanks for reading, sorry day one wasn't too wild. I'm sure they will get more exciting and my writing will continue to improve. 

The JLS
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