A Homemaker’s Diary

*This post is written for phonecardsavenue.com*

Why would anyone buy phone cards these days? With everyone having cell phone and land line with rates that are very affordable, the only answer will be to save on the long distance bills. Imagine trying to call home from overseas from your roaming cell phone, after a while it will cost you a bomb that might be equal to the amount of the airfare ticket..heh!

Since Hubby will be going to US soon for training, I think it will be very good for him to look around for the international calling card that offers good rate per minute. I have checked around and found one with $0.63/min. I am yet to discover the cheapest rate. Otherwise for that two weeks duration we might as well communicate through email and chat online..huhu!

The company, Phone Cards Avenue provides the best international calling cards online. All of their phone cards are delivered online instantly so you can make the call right away. If you are not sure how to choose they even have instructions online on how to buy the phone cards. What you only need is a valid credit card number after you sign up in order to authenticate yourself.

I think I just found one from New York X-clusive that offers $0.43 per minute. I think this is for calls to Malaysia land line since the rate for cellular is $1.96/min. I still have to check whether any call made from other state in the US will give the same rate or is it only for calls made from New York. There is another one from Nine (800 & Local Access) Phone Card that offers $0.46/min.

I am reading their FAQ and I think it’s clear now. In terms of buying the card, as soon as my online transaction is approved, I will receive an email with the Access numbers, PIN and Dialing Instructions. And as long as I use their posted toll free access numbers I will not get charged anything extra except for my mobile phone minutes, if I use a mobile phone.

If you are some pervert with something else in mind that happened to come over at my blog searching for something else, go, go away..heh!

This was taken nearby the Cavenagh Bridge while walking pass the Fullerton Hotel towards the Merlion Park. I think the figurative sculptures portrays a bunch of boys jumping into the Singapore river, enjoying afternoon swim.

Well, how easy life in that era, huh! You can find joy in something as cheap as jumping into a river. I wonder whether anyone insane enough to go naked and jump into Sungai Selangor (is there even one nowadays?..hehe)

If you are in the vicinity you can check the description of that 5 naked boys sculptor - “The first generation”. I think he is Chong Fah Cheong (born in 1946), a local Singaporean artist.

For those who are interested to step back into colonial history of Singapore, stop by at the MRT station - Raffles Place and you can walk to the Raffles landing site.

Now Raffles Place is like a banking district where you can find all big banks like Bank of China, UOB, HSBC, OCBC and whatnot. If you would like to know more about the colonial era of Singapore and how Stamford Raffles played his role by being the founder of modern Singapore, read it here - Singapore History.

This is among the last tourist attractions we managed to go to on our trip to Singapore. We saw another Merlion in Sentosa island but this one is the official one in Merlion Park.

We took the MRT and stop at Raffles Place station, walked around the area and saw Esplanade from far. There is one bridge nearby the Fullerton Hotel and we just walked according to the sign.

Then we saw people (can only see their legs from the tunnel under the Anderson bridge) and I know they must be flocking at the Merlion..heh!

Oh, I did pose with open mouth (imagining the Merlion is spitting the water) but couldn’t get a good pose because I was too conscious of other people watching me gaping..but you should see so many others with funny pose at the park.

I need to survey for cheap hotels in Singapore fast. Our expat friends who are currently staying in Singapore decided to migrate to Canada in March and they requested that we go and visit them in Singapore for one last time before they depart.

I’m browsing this website to see whether it has all the information I need to decide which hotel to stay. Since we are not sure whether to drive or take flight to Singapore, I have to take all the details into consideration. I wouldn’t want the parking rate to be more expensive than the hotel rate for sure..heh!

The picture above was taken from the page on Golden Landmark - A Far East Hotel. It is said that the hotel is a walking distance from the Bugis Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station, nearby the famous Orchard Road and in the vicinity of Bugis Street (with its Chinese food and Chinese wares), Arab Street (ideal for bargain hunters) and Bugis Village. I have no idea what they have in Singapore so I need to find more info about all those places.

I’m reading the reviews given by those who have stayed at the hotel. 1 out of the 3 reviews gave good feedback so based on my experience as long as the room is good, it doesn’t really matter how the reception of the staffs at the hotel, heh! After all I won’t be staying in the room the whole time as it is my first time in Singapore and I would be glad to explore all the places of attraction there.

I also love the fact that the website provides few pictures of each hotel. At least it would give a glimpse of the place before I decide to place a reservation. Now I have to check whether the date I plan to go to Singapore coincides with any major public holiday or school holiday. I will surely update my blog readers after I get back from Singapore. Stay tune!