Life in Singapura

You know you're in Singapore when..........


This is a shop that sells toast. It's funny. There are toast shops all over the place. People love toast here. I don't think a toast place would ever make it in Vancouver.

This is another toast place. I see this one EVERYWHERE.

From the museum.

At the Arab place you will read about in a bit. I liked the light on the ceiling. Thought it would make a good picture, even with my crappy camera phone.
This is the live band.
This is also at the same place. This part of the restaurant was indoors but with an open roof. It looked really nice (but the service was real crappy).

Yesterday we went to the Eurasian Museum and read a lot about the Japanese occupation. The descriptions were pretty graphic and cruel. I won't really say what I feel towards what I saw but just that people sure can be cruel to one another, and it's amazing what war and power can drive people to do. We had a class dinner with the USP staff members and after dinner we found a place on Arab street to get some drinks. The place looked really cool. You had to take off your shoes to go upstairs and people sat on the floor while an Arab band played live music. It would've been nice except that they didn't bring half of our orders over and then charged us for it. The service was unbelievably crappy but I've never seen any place like that before and it was an interesting experience. There was a kid who was less than 10 years old behind us smoking from a bong looking thing. Supposedly it contains fruit flavoured tobacco. He sure was enjoying himself.

Today was pretty laid back. We all went to another Museum this morning. We've been to so many I can't even recall what it was called anymore and it was only this morning, but it was about Chinese migration and the overseas Chinese. I got in touch with my Fujian roots by reading about Hokkien dishes from one of the books. Haha. The Hokkien pronunciations were written out in English and Michelle and I figured out the pronunciations of 2 out of 5 dishes. Afterwards, we went to Vivo City which is apparently the biggest mall in Asia. We shopped around a bit and I ended up spending money again even though I said I wouldn't. I know I said that I was going to go to the zoo but that plan never worked out for the past 2 days. I don't think it will be happening anymore. We don't have lecture tomorrow so I'm going to have a great time sleeping in. Sleep deprivation is taking its toll!