Singapore stories
Singapore is definitely a "fine" city. A funny caption on one of those tourist t-shirts. But the benefits of having a disciplined and iron clad governance can be quite exhilarating! There is burgeoning creativity at every corner trying to break free from the laws of the land. You see it everywhere... in schools, libraries, galleries, guerrilla advertising and even in the humorous pictogram that are meant as instructions to everyday plebeian living.
The juxtaposition of old and new abound in the Lion City. There are not even any indigenous lions here except the roar of construction machines racing to develop every single available space left in the horizon. But the price of modernity is being checked, with precision and care to include what is left of a distant past. Old conservation mansions, shop houses, photographs and colonial food favorites mix seamlessly on this neon clad terrain.
I lost a shopping bag full of magazines and a very dear postcard of the Singapore Majestic Theater circa 1950s on bus 106 which I bought at the National Library. My friend Lori and I reported it lost through the kind concierge at the Esplanade mall. It was worth a shot... three days later it was found and was returned safely!
If all trips were as clean, culturally rich, convenient and stress free as this, I would pack a bag every weekend and just swing away. I love Singapore.
The juxtaposition of old and new abound in the Lion City. There are not even any indigenous lions here except the roar of construction machines racing to develop every single available space left in the horizon. But the price of modernity is being checked, with precision and care to include what is left of a distant past. Old conservation mansions, shop houses, photographs and colonial food favorites mix seamlessly on this neon clad terrain.
I lost a shopping bag full of magazines and a very dear postcard of the Singapore Majestic Theater circa 1950s on bus 106 which I bought at the National Library. My friend Lori and I reported it lost through the kind concierge at the Esplanade mall. It was worth a shot... three days later it was found and was returned safely!
If all trips were as clean, culturally rich, convenient and stress free as this, I would pack a bag every weekend and just swing away. I love Singapore.