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Okay - this isn't Singapore. I got a few beautiful shots of HKG as we were landing.
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Also HKG.
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Ahh, here's Singapore.
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Must be back in Asia - the standard fruit plate welcome. :)
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... and a welcome from my school. Nice.
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spotted at a mall hawker stall: Highlands Vietnamese iced coffees.
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The view from my hotel room.
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When I wasn't viewing apartments, I managed to do a bit of sight-seeing. Wanted to see things I hadn't seen the last 3 times. Went to Chinatown.
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At the Museum of Chinese Heritage. I thought this sentiment of one of the early Chinese migrants to Singapore also encapsulated how I have often felt
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The educational media designer in me is always intrigued by museum design (Thanks, Leonard!). Here's something I hadn't seen before. The video *in* th
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I liked this one a bit better. The three woks have video screens in the center; these ones were showing what happened typically in the kitchens of the
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My new kitchen in my apartment! Kidding. This is a kitchen in a rooming house of Chinese workers in the early 19th century in S'pore.
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I went to check out a "new" temple in Chinatown (my main reason for heading down there): The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.
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I didn't know each astrological sign had a guardian.
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Here's mine. :)
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still at the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
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walking through Chinatown
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Old Singapore. New Singapore (Pinnacle @ Duxton in the back - a public housing complex)
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At the Urban Redevelopment Authority Galleries -- I wanted to see their permanent exhibits about S'pore's recent development, as I am so blown away by
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Singapore is...
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a model
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reclaimed land
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Something I didn't know: NYC and Singapore are nearly the same size in terms of surface area. Singapore has 5.5 million people, whereas NYC has more t
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This. Is. Crazy.
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another fact I found interesting.
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I was fascinated by the exhibits on how Singapore develops its land sustainably, and how they deal with waste.
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Also - the way this city state handles water could and should be the feature of some kind of documentary. The rest of the developed world has a few th
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Over the decades...
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stopped by a Chinese vegetarian restaurant that had these cute tables, a libary of spiritual books (most related to the Dalai Lama) and of course a sh
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Treated myself to a night out. :)
