Today's Singaporean "adventure" involved walking around the city and helping Piyawat take hundreds of pictures. I brought my camara along as well, but after three photos, my card was full. Apparently I forgot to transfer all of the Europe photos to my laptop. Duh!
In any case, we had a marvellous time seeing the sites: the river walk, the Merlion (Singapore's city half lion-half-fish symbol), the bug-eyed (or durian) shaped Esplanade Theatres, the world's largest fountain at Suntec City, and the amazingly gentrified ex-red light district but now fashionable Bugis shopping center.
At Bugis we had coffee with Kelvin, another good Singaporian friend of mine. Again, it was great to catch up with him and hear all about the latest stories of life in clean, efficient, but (even he would admit it) somewhat boring Singapore.
And now, time to head back to the laid-back chaos of Bangkok. This was my third trip to Singapore and I think it was the most enjoyable. Having Piyawat along definitely helped. (I went alone the other times.) But I think part of it was that now that I have lived in Asia for a couple of years, I can see past the "exotic" and get a better feeling for the "reality" that is around me. At least that is my view today. Who knows what I will think and feel years from now...
Boring or not... I'm still curious as to what all these places are like. Damn i need to get on a plane already.
-J.