So Sg was cool and all. The best part was having time with my cousins, who are great people and fun to hang out with. We also went on a few hikes in town and went to the zoo today. That was all fun but I am ready to really dig my teeth in. I want to be dropped off in a jungle town for a week with a map and one bottle of water kind of stuff. Not really, but I want to go and do. So on that note we are leaving my cousins, maybe too soon in some ways, and heading on to Malaysia and KL in the morning.
Hopefully we are going to be in the jungle or on the beach very soon.
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Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Singapore
First day in Singapore/On our actual trip. We are staying with my cousins in Singapore.
Singapore is americanized, but it has it's different hotspots of culture. I would call it modern rather than american. The cool thing here is that you see all different type of people all together, and all the religions too, but everyone is content. Today I saw a mosque, Buddhist temple, and a Hindu shrine on the same street. Also in the train stations everyone is crowded on together, in all forms of religious dress, and everyone is cool with everyone else. People seem pretty happy here.
Today we had a sleep in, slow breakfast kind of morning, then by 1pm we finally got everyone out of the house, only an hour late, and headed out on the train. The Ryans place is really nice and big and the apt complex above the mall is also awesome. We walked around Chinatown and went into a Hindu temple and Buddhist temple within three blocks. The Buddhist temple had a ceremony today and everyone was chanting really loudly. Then we walked around a few areas, they had a Starbucks, but we had cheap PB toast around the corner, and Heidi and Jim went off for dinner at their friends place.
Then it was just me and Clem and the girls. It was really fun. We walked to a thai place by their home. We never ran out of things to talk about and then after dinner we walked home and rented a movie from the place downstairs. Oh, I also forgot, before dinner we played in the pool at their place. It was the only time I was even close to cool this whole time. It is going to be a long trip. :)
Singapore is americanized, but it has it's different hotspots of culture. I would call it modern rather than american. The cool thing here is that you see all different type of people all together, and all the religions too, but everyone is content. Today I saw a mosque, Buddhist temple, and a Hindu shrine on the same street. Also in the train stations everyone is crowded on together, in all forms of religious dress, and everyone is cool with everyone else. People seem pretty happy here.
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