A little something for everyone - My Singapore home

(Left-Right) Invisible Flying hand kungfu used only for mahjong; old shophouses in Jalan Besar; a strange, loud laughing angmoh over Cheese naan in Little India.

(L-R) Wafer-bread ice-cream man with sweet corn, mint choc chips, raspberry and durian flavours!!! And where will you be able to find anything that leaves the aftertaste of unabandoned childhood joy? For 80cents!!! Next up, St. Joseph's Church at Queen's Street. All earthy undertones, from it's calm blue and white colours matched with deep comforting wooden chairs - large, with ambracing air of serenity.

(L-R) Singapore Arts Museum...bringing it closer to the masses by being in the centre of the city and being so affordable to see amazing artworks from across SE asia - with its lunchtime & Friday evenings free entry. Once I even learnt swing dancing there in the chapel (it used to be a old St. Joseph's Insitution, Catholic school).

And on the right izzz fooooood...'nuff said. Local hawker centres, cue to the longest queue there and guaranteed good food.

CHINGAAAAY!!! We were very lucky to get tickets from the tourist centre at Heeren, it was all sold out at Sistic! Except for four similar acts it was very vibrant and all the performers looked like they were sincerely happy to be there, which is very contagious. Love the bubbles that surrounded the dancers.

Sentosa - 'Glass-bottomed cable cars' sounded so attractive and I was a little

worried of the height. A bummer that it was frosted!! There was tropical rain intermittently, the silver lining was that we devoured Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey while waiting for it to stop. Fort Siloso remains very well-maintained. One could almost imagine Brit soldiers climbing through lookouts, desperately loading runs into the machinery; yet in the end still having to dump them into the sea so the Japanese could not use it.

A special mention goes out to National Museum of Singapore which was totally revamped last year. It reminded me alot of the Metropolitan Museum in NYC with its dome like structure featuring a video of Singapore from dawn to dusk. Followed by a real treat for history buffs! Even DL who was a history buff was overloaded by the sheer amount of details heh...it was done in true Singapore style - if must do, lagi die die must do the best! I suggest going through the initial section of Singapore before it was founded by Raffles really quickly. All the interesting information was that Indonesians, Malaysians and a group of people called the Bugis occupied this place. (Previously I was posed a challenging question on the origin of the street name Bugis and sheepishly I made up some imaginary answer of it being part of a name of a governor general heh...but it did sound historical like ya? *looks around for some comforting affirmation*) The current exhibit on 'A Singapore Album' is one of my favourites, featuring diverse range of Singaporeans - Jewish, Peranakan parentage, Adrian Pang with his wild child hairdo (my favourite picture of his wife with red pixie hair while they were in theatre). The next event in mid-March sounds exotic with its emphasis on Arab culture. Chekkit out.

So to all those who say Singapore can be covered in a week...BOOO! to you (double confirmed by french chick who we met en-route Sentosa).

Next trip, I hope we can cover the less touristy spots :)