These images are not necessarily in chronological order as I tried to organize them by topic/area.
Luxury Ahoy!
A view of the neighborhood as seen from our hotel balcony.
VIDEO CLIP: Check out the lovely interior of the hotel, even larger than Mako's!
Call me deranged but I am still amused by unusual bathroom appliances. Someday I'll find a bidet perfectly normal but today is not that day.
In our hotel room, Mako captures my most seductive pose yet.
Walking from the hotel to the subway station took us past this purely aethestic water wheel.
This is Orchard Road, a major shopping avenue in Singapore. I'm not much for shopping but I thought all the trees made this a very pretty street.
VIDEO CLIP: A quick pan around Orchard Road from the entrance to the subway.
I wonder if this building has anything to do with the Shaw Brothers studio?
Are we still wondering if globalization is a good thing?
The famous Raffles Hotel. Since Singapore was founded by this guy named Raffles, his name is everywhere.
And I think that's a pretty amusing name to slap onto everything.
I want to find out what kind of bird this is as it seemed to be all over town and it's very cute.
I boldly walk down the street towards the entrance to the Raffles hotel.
Chinatown & Little India
Thankfully Singapore isn't all shopping malls and wanton commercial districts. This is Chinatown.
This building housed a hawker centre, a busling floor of nothing but food stands. Unfortunately Mako didn't want to eat here because she thought it wasn't "clean."
Hey, it's my camera, I'll photograph low-brow humor if I want to!
Sri Mariamman Temple is a major attraction in the neighborhood. Why build a Hindu temple in Chinatown? Sorry, I have no idea.
Onto Little India which has similar architecture to Chinatown.
Here's another Hindu temple, Sri Srinivasa Perumal, with a more sensible location in my opinion.
Little India has hawker centres just like Chinatown. In here I was persuaded by a vendor to try a "Milo Dinosaur"
an Australian-made chocolate product that is apparently all the rage in Sinagpore.
Singapore Zoo & Night Safari
What can I say? I love zoos and never get tired of visiting them, even though I've seen most of these animals before.
Mako demonstrates that her head is, in fact, smaller than an elephant's foot.
This peacock was allowed to freely walk around the park.
Mako and I both pursued the bird in order to be photographed next to it. We probably scared it half to death.
It's not like I have a thing for peacocks, I just kept getting great shots of them because they were so close.
RHINO FIGHT!
The Singapore Zoo also runs a Night Safari next door which, of course, did not photograph well at all.
So all you get is a shot of me by the entrance.
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