Singapore 7_26

MRT Station (Early in Morning) Electronic Mall


Typical Mall (This is at the Marina)



View From Park

Singapore 7/26: I had the whole day to explore some of the surroundings so I got started at 9:30 am to get on the MRT trains. The trains enter the station behind the steel doors to the right or left of the picture, then open to let people out and in. All the stations that I have been in are very clean as is the city itself. Took the MRT only 3 stops to get to a section of town where Cathay Photo was, one of the more complete photo stores. Found out though they are closed Sundays and close at 7:00pm on weekdays. So next Saturday will be the next chance I’ll have to get into the store. Lucky for me there are hundreds of other camera stores here and one had the 120 roll film I was looking for.

Stores are everywhere and things closer than I thought so I walked to check out the Swiss Hotel where one of the other folks from San Diego is staying. Then a couple blocks away is the Marina Square Mall with the Raffles Link Mall between them! Get the picture? Looking at the map I could see that it was totally within walking distance to get back to my hotel so I started back after getting film. On the way back I passed things like the War Memorial Park, Singapore Art Museum, art galleries, Plaza by the Park, The Cathay (shopping place), and Plaza Singapore (where the Thai food fair was) and then numbers of mom and pop shops.

The malls are a combination of La Jolla, Fashion Square and Best Buy type stores. But it is all the electronics and food that keeps me going into these places…….love the selection of food here. In fact, after only a week I must say that Singapore now rates up there with food places like San Francisco, Chicago and France. It’s an Asian culinary melting pot to appreciated for sure. At the Plaza Singapore where the Thai food fair was I had a $2.00 (SG value about $1.40 US) huge plate of golden scallop fried rice with a spot of spice on the side. It was so good and almost more than I could eat.

Well enough about shopping and food. Next post will probably be next weekend when I get time to do something. I’ll look at Cathay Photo, Little India and get some pictures of the skyline perhaps.

Singapore 7/25

A340 Getting Loaded for the trip

Business Class not all bad

Sentosa Island bridge to most southern point on Asia ContinentSantosh, Subba Rao, and Me

One of many Mall/stores

Singapore 7/25: Never would have thought I would be here when I started back to work 6 months ago. But as assignments go this is not so bad, as the pictures show. The trip over was about 17 hours long but business class on Singapore Airlines has a way of making time fly. Left at 9:30 pm from LA Friday night. Arrived 17 hours later Sunday morning in Singapore at 4:30am in the morning. I have never flown for 17 hours before all the time it being dark. The flight was on an A340 ALL business class. Only 4 seats across the plane, with TV’s in the back of the seat in front of you. The seats reclined like a lounge chair so you could lay down almost flat to sleep. Thought I would never say it but actually looking forward to the return trip for numbers of reasons now.
So far the work as been steady but not the break-neck effort I thought it would be, that might change however. Getting back to the hotel at 6:30 every night does not give much time to explore during the week so it was good to go out Friday night with 3 others I know from San Diego. Pubs are all quite nice here.
Then on Saturday was the first Goodrich Family day at Sentosa Beach. Food, games and lots of fun had by all on a beautiful sunny day (no rain). The ocean water here is so warm it was almost not even refreshing………almost. Got to use the MRT (metro transit subway thing) on the way home for the first time too. Good system and I’ll probably use it tomorrow.
So many malls and stores and food places here but I figure with the metro system and taxis I’ll get to see most every area of the city before I go, but not come close to seeing all the stores.
Better sign off for now. Just wanted to get out some pictures of the trip. Tomorrow I’ll be looking for sun glasses and a specific camera store.