A poem written about the Merlion:
Another view of the Anderson bridge:
Just a chicken out for a day at the opera....
They had some amazing trees:
The Lim Bo Seng Memorial, dedicated to the memory of Lim Bo Seng (A.D. 1909-1944), a guerilla fighter against the Japanese following the fall of Singapore to the Japanese Imperial Army in A.D. 1942. Imprisoned in A.D. 1942 and tortured, he died in captivity without revealing any information:
The memorial. It includes an octagonal tower and four guardian lions from Chinese architecture. There inscriptions in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil:
The front of the Concert Hall with a statue of Stamford Raffles, considered in some aspects the founder of modern Singapore.
A chicken! My kind of place. ;)
ReplyDeleteI like the poem. "Despite unequal ways together they mutate. Explore the edges of harmony, searched for a centre." What is the ethnic background of the peoples? I can't recall if you mentioned language. I'm guessing it's a multilingual city.
Leigh, literally the most unexpected thing one thinks of in a modern state of the art city: a chicken just calmly strolling about his business.
DeletePer Wikipedia, the official languages are English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Tamil (which is apparently a language of the Indian subcontinent).
That bridge is interesting, looking things up on the Internet is certainly quicker than pre-Internet days TB. Nice to see clean public areas unlike so many places nowadays.
ReplyDeleteNylon12, it really was a nice bridge (and yes, information is so much quicker).
DeleteIt was not more than 12 hour stay in Singapore in total, but it was very clean.
To Nylon12's comment, I've heard that Singapore laws are quite strict when it comes to littering. Back in college when I was considering a semester abroad in Singapore, I'm pretty sure canning your backside in public was an option. I'm guessing/hoping things have progressed since then and there are less painful ways of reminders.
ReplyDeleteEd, I remember those same regulations and same stories. I do not specifically know if they are more or less in force, but things were remarkably clean for a downtown area.
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