I had a great time in Singapore. This is because I have a couple of good friends there, who were kind enough to host me and act as tour guides for a week--not because Singapore is a particularly interesting place. If I was solo it would have been boring as hell.
When I was a Freshman in High School all I new about Singapore came from the Tom Waits song and news reports about that guy who got caned (sp?). From my two sources, it sounded like a crazy, exotic place.
Sadly, the common perception of the city state that I learned of later is truer than the what my adolescent brain envisioned.
Lots of strict laws, lots of international businessmen, lots of shopping.
The array of trees, parks and whathaveyou, in the city itself is amazing.
...as is the way they dry laundry.
English is the official language but it has been so bastardized from British English that I could not understand the conversations of people standing next to me on the subway.
FIGHT THE ECONOMY, CONSUME!!!!!! Buying that $100 pair of jeans from the mall makes you a revolutionary.
Name me one written language that looks cooler than Arabic.
A tattooed skull.
If you're interested in history and don't know about the opium wars, read about them.
Dali sculpture.
Right by a sculpture of that famous guy who made all those famous paintings of fat people.
a metaphor for my life.
I learned that the US is not the only place where people are constantly told they must be afraid of some mysterious bad guys.
Shit seems to be considered to be cute in Asian.
I've been to Malaysia.
For 4 hours.
Nice flag, eh?
The most regal ashtray I've ever seen.
I think he was going for the "I'm a
badass pose."
Not quite Sultan.
You can't tell, but this walking bridge was really high up.
You know you've run a successful "ad campaign" when Jesus tries to co-opt it.
Someone find this font and send it to me.
A University Campus, if my memory serves me correctly.
I'm glad I don't have to see a color wheel everyday.
I went to a mosque for the first time. I'm not really sure why I've never visited one before.
As Daron pointed out to me, this is a very Randian building. I hate Ayn Rand--but it was a nice building, headquarters of the UAE. I think
What do Dante, Dali, Chopin and Newton all have in common with each other? They all have their statues outside of the
randian building.
I found it really amusing that most of Singapore's tourist info begins by trying to negate that city's reputation of being boring.
I've been doing sit-ups so I can get a 24 pack of abs.
From atop the world's largest
ferris wheel.
What a name for an elementary school.
The city's urban planning is insane. They have massive government funded development projects that stretch 20 years into the future. Apparently you can do these types of things when you're a rich country which only consists of one city, and it's all run as a
de-facto one party state.
Even though I'm still a godawful speller, who doesn't catch his own typos, often types incoherent emails, faked his way though a TEFL certificate, and enjoys run-on sentences, teaching English has turned me into stickler for basic grammar rules. I corrected the mistakes on my dental form the other day. I'm not one of these damn nazis though.
People camping in an ocean-side park.
Durion is the world's worst smelling fruit. Daron wouldn't let me buy one. You can't take food on the bus, but this fruit needs it own sign.
Went to Busan, which is South Korea's 2nd largest city with the guy who lives in the flat above mine. 
