Floating market, Mekong Delta, Southern Viet Nam
Category Archives: Samples of Southeast Asia
Being all touristy and stuff in Singapore.
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So I have my very first guest from the United States staying with me in Singapore! My youngest sister 🙂 It’s giving me a chance to go and actually do stuff that I normally don’t bother with. Here’s a few pictures from our adventures!
The Neko Cat Cafe. Yes, exactly what it sounds like. A room full of cats to take pictures of and play with. Or, well, they’re cats, so maaaaybe they’ll play with you, but really they’ll probably just ignore you. Oh, and they do serve coffee, so it is a cafe. Don’t pull their tails or give them your mocha! Also take of your shoes and sanitize your hands lol.
Also my sister was just amazed by the sheer quantity of malls. We were in 5 (6?) today alone. Yeah….
Here’s a few night shots of Singapore.
What’s up Marina Bay Sands? Got some pretty sunset clouds back there….
Hey Singapore Flyer. How’s it going?
Ships waiting to dock in Singapore.
Find the Merlion! A mermaid lion shooting water out of its mouth.
A few shots of the Super Trees!
A night shot of the Singapore skyline at Marina Bay Sands, but not the BEST night shot. The choice was this: pay $25 to get the best shots at the edge of the viewing platform or…pay $23 for one drink and have to deal with sub-par shots with people in it. The choice was obvious lol.
Tomorrow we’re off to Viet Nam!!
Fun with my IPhone in Indonesia
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Impending thunderstorm in Batam, Indonesia
From the ferry between Singapore and Batam
Graffiti hunting in Singapore, land of the Merlion
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(Taken near Arab Street, Singapore)
A just question and very fitting for this blog post!
When I told people back in Wisconsin that my husband and I were renting out our house, I was quitting my job, and we were moving to Singapore, I usually got some variation on these four questions:
1) Is that is China? No, it’s off the tip of Malaysia but most of the country is ethnically Chinese so half a gold star.
2) Why? Most people thought we were kind of crazy for completely uprooting our lives and moving across the world, especially since I’d never even been to Singapore. Okay, so it actually does sound kind of crazy but YOLO, right? Ew, that’s so 8 months ago, so I’ll go with carpe diem instead.
3) You can’t chew gum there right? This is true. No gum allowed!
4) Isn’t that where those American guys got caned for spraying graffiti? Yes, yes it is.
The Singapore government likes to keep things both safe and clean and they succeed at both. I walk around at 3 a.m. by myself with no fear. So anyway, when I discover graffiti in Singapore, I’m intrigued. Here are a few examples (apologies for the bad language; I swear I did not graffiti it!).
This one’s so elaborate I can’t help but wonder if it was commissioned and therefore not true graffiti.
That is NOT AT ALL a Singaporean way of thinking! School is life in Singapore and test scores are everything.
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I’ll share more as I find it!
Apsara, the dancing girls
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One of my favorite pictures from the many temples in around Angkor Wat, Camboria. Taken a little after dawn at Ta Prohm Temple (AKA the Tomb Raider Temple).
Sarah J. Carlson 