Rob From Canada

SSSSSingapore

Dates: July 21... for about 5 days or so!

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Sleek. Sanitized. Spotless. Shopping. Welcome to the efficient city of Singapore, a city that is a country, and a country that smells completely of money. Designer labelled mannequins and crack cocaine advertising schemes mutate consumerist genes into designer jeans, and the world continues to spin on its economic axis.

Standing on the balcony of my 5 star hotel room, my bathrobe fluttered in the updraft as I watched other executives lounging about and milking the corporate budget. I would soon be flung back into the slums of the backpacker hostelling world, but luckily only for a few days before I connected with a former university friend. We shared some beers and a few stories of individualistic and idealistic thinking and scurried off to social gatherings of drum performances and riverside brunches. The mosque outside her apartment in Little Arab sung sweet songs so unfamiliar to the other mosques in Indonesia.

Silent. Safe. Soft. Singapore.

Singapore, Singapore. The shopping in Singapore is truly off the hook.

Singapore. Brenda and her drum circle group!

Little Arab, Singapore. The promenade in front of quite possibly the best (or only good) sounding mosque in the world!

Little Arab, Singapore. The little arab mosque from the front.


Little India, Singapore. Ornate decorations adorn this indian temple.