Singapore Day 16

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Nov 032009
 

Monday. It was really just about work. I asked the taxi driver to drop my at people park complex, I just had a quick walk, got to Maxwell Food Court, got some so-so soup and went back to the hotel. Before that I found a tiny super market and got all remaining drinks I didn’t try so far. They were all too sweet ;)

Apparently I like walking around at night here even when the temperatures are still hot and humid. I came along a poster warning that low crime doesn’t mean no crime .. imagine such a poster in Ireland or Germany! Although.. this has also its flip side. Having chats about daily life in Singapore at lunch time somehow reminds me a bit to brave new world or orwell’s 1984.

I have been in a strange mood all day. It is the third week here. I am still excited -  I am in Singapore – yeah! but now it feels like a day-to-day life I am having here. And for that I miss a few people and amenities from back home…

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Video Recipe: Beef Randang

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Nov 032009
 

Just got this forwarded from Chris. I will try it out when I am back home in Dublin. Who wants to come? Who wants to join?

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Singapore fans.

 found in the interwebs, lost in translation, places to be  Comments Off
Nov 032009
 

Bee Hoon recommended this page Amazing Singapore

I must say that www.amasingapore. com is an interesting and humorous site which I would recommend for your reading. It touches on topics like Impressions and Curiosities from “fire truck, a fine city, fake monks” to ” ‘twalking’ in Orchard Road” etc.

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Singapore Day 15

 culinaria, lost in translation, places to be  1 Response »
Nov 032009
 

On Sunday I slept long… long! I got up around noon time, had some left overs from the day before and left to meet up with a work mate. The initial idea was to go to Sentosa in the morning… Anyways we had some malayan lunch – rice, vegetables, lung and beef padang and went then to the Singapore Malaysian heritage center. I didn’t realize that Singapore is that young – not older than 200 years.

There was also an exhibition about mosques in Germany – interesting but unfortunately only focused on architecture. I would have been interested in when they were built, a map where mosques are and the history how they came to Germany.

Close by the heritage center there was the oldest mosque in Singapore – the Sultan Mosque. After that I got into a lazy Sunday mood, i picked the MRT, got to a food stall, got some nasty junk food and went back to the hotel.

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Singapore Day 14

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Nov 012009
 

On Saturday I met Bee Hoon again. We met at Orchard road, had a quick brunch – a so so version of Nasi Lemak – and enjoyed then the Botanic Gardens, especially I liked the National Orchid Gardens and the Rain Forest area. It was unbelievably hot and humid, Bee Hoon took care of me and brought a hat. After walking around for hours (and giving each plant a photo shooting) we went by bus near to burgis street and walked along the shopping malls. Bee Hoon started to feed me, got me

  • a Durian – a local fruit with a strong smell and a unique taste. the texture is a bit like avocado, it is similar creamy but flavor and taste are completely different. Never had something close to this before.
  • a Pulasan – a fruit which reminded me a bit to lychee
  • Laksa – a tasty soup with noodles, coconut, cockles, fish, prawns – tasty
  • a sourish, salty milk drink. The name I forgot, Jimmy didn’t know either.
  • Mua chi – basically made of glutinous rice flour dough covered with peanuts and sugar, i only knew the Japanese version so far.
  • something the name i forgot – tasty but very filling. It is also made with glutinous rice but with chili, mushrooms and chicken. Apparently I just asked Bee Hoon what the old woman was selling, and she meant I need to try it because I am going to leave soon. To be honest, I didn’t even recognize that woman was selling food.
  • Japanese ice cream made of macha tea, mochi, water chestnuts and red beans. Sweet, cold and way to much.

It started raining heavily and I was just tired. So we skipped the night safari and I went straight back to bed. It was a great day. Thanks, Bee Hoon!

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