Twyt no Sekai

Today’s episode of mini-Asian tour features my final day in South East Asia before I am whirled to the final destination and no, it doesn’t involve a series of unfortunate and gory deaths. I stayed at the Miramar Hotel and it was fantabulous even though it was the cheaper of the 2 hotel options. I really enjoyed breakfast there since there was so much variety and probably one of the only hotels that makes real bacon with pork because a lot of people here don’t eat it for religious purposes. To accommodate for these people, cooks and people in a lot of restaurants resolve to simply eliminate pork because the customers won’t even eat anything that’s touched pork. Also, this hotel had a lot of Japanese style options including miso soup and rice in the morning because of either previous occupation or there’s just a lot of Japanese people who go around that area (I’m not sure). We then went on the Singapore flyer to see much of the landscape in Singapore. To the right features a seat that amused me quite a bit due to shape.

To the left is the very pretty sigh showcasing the Singapore Flyer and to the right is my new cellphone was the device we listened to that described the places we were looking at.

Going up!

It was so cool being so high up and seeing everything. I think it was a hotel on the left picture on the top right end.

The stadium was uber colourful and the right picture is a pic of the contraption we were riding on to see the view.

I am way too amused with these carboats? busboats? I always did want to see how it was like to ride one. I have yet to try and same goes for sightseeing buses. Maybe it’s something to do when I’m super old

Doesn’t the Esplanade look like a giant durian? We were walking around somewhere after the ferris wheel like ride and I thought the angles were so cool in the picture on the right.

So this isn’t poop; it’s actually tamarind. The hanging like trees were so pretty to look at. It was so bright out and I wish I wore my contacts that day, but I was going to leave back to HK, and I didn’t want to go through dry eyes of doom on the plane.

Here’s some European styled architecture on my way to a Chinatown like area.

These bulls were a landmark for Singapore’s Chinatown since it’s known as 牛車水, which literally means bull cart water. The gates here were pretty fancy for I think it was a mosque.

Overall prettyness from things I saw walking by.

This was the entrance to Chinatown Heritage Centre, which had a lot of displays and recreated scenes of history in restored houses. To the right is freaky mannequins I saw as I was passing by the shows in the marketplace.

Left: I thought it was really cool how it gave the illusion of things popping out when it didn’t.
Right: Another view of another street in Chinatown.

My dad told me that my grandfather actually had a camera just like the one on the right. I wonder if he still has it. It was fun walking through these displays to see what was then and what changed or remained the same.

Left: The wall of Dimsum
Right: Another street view

Singaporeans love telling us what’s good to eat. They clearly have the right priorities put in life and also love showing giant Buddha outside too

To the left is the store sign of the delicious jerky. After tasting jerky in Asia, I can’t bring myself to enjoy jerky here as much anymore. It’s a shame I can’t bring them across the border T_T. I also considered buying kaya, which consist of coconut milk mixed with eggs, pandan (which makes it green) and sugar. I’ve had it before in my Cultural aspects of foods course and it was really yummy. However, I did find it the slightest bit on the heavy side because it’s so creamy so decided against buying it since I know it would take me forever to finish (and likely to go bad before I do I think).

After lunch at another hawker centre, we began to head off to the Singapore Airport. Somehow the name “Havelock” amused me enough to warrant a picture and I’m not exactly sure what the right side building is, but it was interesting to look at. So I thought it’d be nice to show here.

Have I ever told you how pretty the Singapore Airport is? The swirly lines on the right are lines you’d similarly see when it’s really hot outside and the temperature difference clashes causing a bend making it look swirly /end geek talk/

Here’s more evidence of its prettiness.

They even had a butterfly garden (didn’t go in for fear of screaming and yelping like an idiot) and a koi pond (I didn’t get to seed the feeding but it’s not as exciting as piranha feeding.)

The airport also loves to show that it’s not just pretty, but also really cool with architecture.

But somehow, they seemed to miss the rest of the rainbow, unless I just missed it.

Stay tune for the final saga of this visual chronicles.. Next stop, Taiwan, land of food and more food culture.