Baybeats

Yesterday we stumbled across the Baybeats festival by accident. We just wanted to see the seaside, so we first went to Marina Bay MRT station, found out that there was nothing but streets and, well, more streets, asked a passer-by and were told that we're probably rather looking for the City Hall area.



So there we went, thinking we could check out the Esplanade as well, which is supposed to be kind of a landmark. Convention center and all, but it turned out to be really disappointing to me - overexpensive shops and no attractive food anyway... since we (which usually refers to the four of us from Germany, by the way) realized we were all so hungry we were about to collapse, we went to a differnet mall to grab a bite, and ended up in an Italian restaurant called "Spageddies", which was kinda nice. That's one thing I really have to learn to get used to though: Tips are a mandatory 10% of the bill, and prices on the menu do not include GST - Goods & Services Tax, in German: Mwst.
I had a nice Lasagna and Tomato Basil Bruscetta, yummie! So after our hunger was catered to, we went to the seaside, which was only a short walk, right across the street. Turned out there was this Baybeats festival, and we decided to stick around a bit. Then we ran into some of the other exchange students and there was that.
We also met a nice local student who asked us to do a survey, and we got talking a bit and eventually exchanged numbers - she offered to show us around town, so maybe we'll get a private guided tour sometime this week :-)