Singapore Singapore Singapore, and a bit of German
Well I've been here just on two months now so I thought it was about time I posted again. So much for me doin this on a regular basis! So what have I been doin with myself? Well I have moved into a place and pretty much got everything on the home front sorted. Location is pretty cool, with a bus stop to work on the other side of the highway, and a pool in the complex which I take a dip in about every second night.
So anyhow I was gonna go out last Sunday and take a few photos of around town, but became a bit discouraged when it became apparent to me that the haze was gonna make photos come out, well, kinda crapola. Take this pic of the Singapore skyline for example:
Today was the first day in a long time actually that you could actually see blue sky, which was nice, and to be honest a bit of a surprise when i looked out the window this morning when the sun came up and could see it.
I took a couple of other non-descript photos, namely this one of the law courts...
And this one of the steps of what I think is the city hall building, tricked out for the Singapore Bienniele arts event - as you can see you needed to elbow your way through the crowds to see whatever was going on inside...
Cause the heat was startin to shit me and I was getting hungry, I wandered back to the Raffles City Mall, where I was excited to see that Gloria Jeans has set up shop here...
I wonder if they are closely linked to the Happy Clappers like they are in Australia? I was loitering around trying to get a discreet photo of the above when I realised I was actually hanging directly outside the toilets. How dodgy must have that looked? Anyhow I got a nice wrap from some place and a rather expensive juice smoothie thing (it cost me S$15 all up which is obscene here) for lunch and was on my way before it started shitting down rain, which it tends to do quite unexpectedly around here.
I've started doing a beginners German class here given I want to travel to Germany for a short spell next year. Its pretty good, and the locals provide a bit of entertainment. There's one girl who abbreviates her first name to KY which I think is hilarious. We had to ask one another our names and then spell them out as a group exercise in our last class, and amazingly a lot of people managed to spell my name completely with consonants (no y's), which I thought was hilarious. Our class even has a resident low talker.
Anyhoo, that's about all I can be bothered posting right now... More later!
So anyhow I was gonna go out last Sunday and take a few photos of around town, but became a bit discouraged when it became apparent to me that the haze was gonna make photos come out, well, kinda crapola. Take this pic of the Singapore skyline for example:
Today was the first day in a long time actually that you could actually see blue sky, which was nice, and to be honest a bit of a surprise when i looked out the window this morning when the sun came up and could see it.
I took a couple of other non-descript photos, namely this one of the law courts...
And this one of the steps of what I think is the city hall building, tricked out for the Singapore Bienniele arts event - as you can see you needed to elbow your way through the crowds to see whatever was going on inside...
Cause the heat was startin to shit me and I was getting hungry, I wandered back to the Raffles City Mall, where I was excited to see that Gloria Jeans has set up shop here...
I wonder if they are closely linked to the Happy Clappers like they are in Australia? I was loitering around trying to get a discreet photo of the above when I realised I was actually hanging directly outside the toilets. How dodgy must have that looked? Anyhow I got a nice wrap from some place and a rather expensive juice smoothie thing (it cost me S$15 all up which is obscene here) for lunch and was on my way before it started shitting down rain, which it tends to do quite unexpectedly around here.
I've started doing a beginners German class here given I want to travel to Germany for a short spell next year. Its pretty good, and the locals provide a bit of entertainment. There's one girl who abbreviates her first name to KY which I think is hilarious. We had to ask one another our names and then spell them out as a group exercise in our last class, and amazingly a lot of people managed to spell my name completely with consonants (no y's), which I thought was hilarious. Our class even has a resident low talker.
Anyhoo, that's about all I can be bothered posting right now... More later!