So, sit right back, and you'll hear a tale. A tale of a fateful trip. That started from this tropic port, aboard a tiny plane. The mate was a mighty flying girl, the skipper brave and sure - Two passengers set flight that day for a five day tour... a five day tour.
Well, the economies of scale started getting rough - Singapore was rich. If not for the presence of American dollars, their money would be lost... their money would be lost...The tour began on the shore of this, charted tropic isle with Jeremy... Allya too - The chinese with green bandana's - Aleee-e-sah - her flat mates and the professor and... there on Singapore Isle...
By far, the cleanest subway I have ever experienced - and I've experienced just New Yorks... nah, just kidding - Lisbon, London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Bangkok are all the metro's I've experienced - and none like this... Anyone have a one up on this?
Okay, for fear that my audience might not know Gilligans Island, I'll resort back to my original quips. This was eating at some Moroccan place in Boat/Clark Quay - I figured we'd been eating too much Malaysian food already, so we found this place... AMAZING... I think we'll make a trip to Morrocco, just for the food.
Oh yeah, we had some AMAZING ice cream desert... $15 US dollars worth of it...
We found a Hindu temple - amazing!!
Outside of a Buddhist Temple
Inside of that temple...
Getting into Little India... Allya and I found an amazing 3D kind of art that no matter how you look at it, the face would be looking at you.. I had a buddha staring at me - SCARY... As we were walking, the people were relentless trying to get you into their restaurants. I had one guy calling me from across the street. "American - We have the best curry in town!!! Come over here - I get you good deal". We settled for something else.
This was Alyssa's school - Allya's sister... It was an amazing work of architecture... Anyone who knows architecture should know this school. I sure don't.
Allya HAD TO go to the place where they Anthony Bordain or Andrew Zimmern went to while he was in Singapore to try the bone marrow soup.. It wasn't that bad, but the fact that they saw me - and immediately thought, "hey, we can over charge this guy since he is American"... That kind of got my blood boiling - pun intended... Anyway, she ate, and after I almost bought Chicken Satay for .50 cents a piece (it should be like .15 cents), Allya told them off, and I resorted to eating nothing... Except trying the bone marrow soup.. What is it called?
This is the nightlife in Singapore!! Yeah baby... Just don't spit, or graffiti anything, unless you're into dominatrix... Well, apparently, it is a martial artist that whips you - I thought it'd be a shriveled old Member of Parliament... So, I was on good behavior.
However, I did figure that I try to snatch this guy's suitcase... He had a very tight grip on it.
Same place - But, during the day.
Okay, so never pose for a picture in a fountain... Just wasn't smart.
PURPLE DRANK!!!!
Yummm... got a golden shower from a merlion outside of the durien building. It is actually called the Esplanade and is a concert hall - Beautiful on the inside... Disney's concert hall ain't got nuthin' on it... Except maybe the design.
The city skyline was beautiful... I guess what makes a city nice is having random sculptures everywhere... Maybe...
Of course, we had to go on it - It is the biggest one in the world, apparently.. I haven't proven it a fact yet. The Singapore flyer it was called. We almost got on one of the capsules with a group of Indians that apparently hadn't showered that day... Luckily, they let us go ahead, and we had a nice chinese family with a very cute little girl on board with us!!
Yes, Ma'am - We'll gladly go in front of those Indian folks... Thank you for showing the way.
Yup - We made it on the capsule... Odor free... at least from other people!
Some people have asked me what I think about the future prospects are for SE Asian economy vs. the American economy - I took this picture... I think it says it all...
Okay, if that last picture doesn't - How about this? There must've been 100s, and I mean around 2-300 boats in and around the harbour waiting for their turn to get goods... Of course, it's one of the biggest ports in the world, if not THE Biggest, but still... This says alot.
So, Allya and I walked SO MUCH in Singapore, I literally couldn't walk that night.. It is typical with me, and I usually heal after about a day... but, I guess my age is catching up to me, because my feet were sore for almost 3 days... When I get back home, I am going to work out... or at least try to get into a good routine.
This was a bridge - Beautifully taken care of...
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