July 24 - Manila to Singapore

July 24, Thursday, we woke up early to prepare for our flight to Singapore. At around 4:30 am we left our house and go to NAIA. Our flight schedule is at 8:20 am. We have to check in 3 hours before our flight, that is why we need to arrive there at before 6:00 am. At the NAIA, upon checking in, we were advised by the check in officer to pay travel tax to the designated booth. My last travel was on year 2001 when I was sent by the company to attend a training at MA, USA. At that time there was no travel tax, luckily we still have some peso left. After paying the travel tax, we went back to get our boarding pass. After that we went to the immigration officer, after submitting a form and some interview, we then enter the gate assigned to our flight.

At 7:20, boarding of passenger starts. The plane take-off and starts to navigate its way to Singapore. It is almost lunch when we arrived at Changi Airport. We had our lunch at a chinese restaurant along the Orchard Road. After having lunch, we went to the Robertson Quay Hotel to check in. In the afternoon we went back to the orchard road to stroll in the malls.

At around 7:00 pm, we saw a sign along our way to the hotel that there is a Singapore food festival in a happening on that small place in the city. We tried Singapore food sampler, which includes some kind of pork barbecue, shrimp, noodles and bread. I was not able to recall the exact name of those food, but the food is really good.