The second day of Singaporean adventures included a walk around Marina Bay, a visit to the Supreme Court, the Parliament building and finally a bout of shopping (not that I bought anything).
We got on the MRT from Somerset station towards Marina Bay station. On arrival, we immediately noticed that the station is actually surrounded by construction and nothing of real significance could be seen. This was added with the fact that it was pouring with rain at this time. We decided to instead go back to Raffles Place and make our way to the 2nd Merlion (the 1st merlion was seen at Sentosa Island yesterday) and progressively walk from intended destination to destination. I don’t actually understand the concept of the Merlion but it was definately a sight to see. Many happy snaps were taken there and it is so fascinating to see just how many people walk around with DSLRs (whether or not they are tourists).
We moved from the Merlion park to the Esplanade – Theatre at the Bay and saw some really cool examples of unique architecture. The theatre is alos known as the two bug eyes and my parents refer to it as a durian (which they actually do look like one). We chilled here for a while as by this time we’d already done a bit of walking in the heat with 90% humidity.
The next stop was the Singapore civic centre, supreme court and parliament building which alike pretty much 90% of Singapore architecture, were splendidly designed with really well balanced features (examples seen in photos that i will upload later).
On the way, we saw so many nice cars ranging from BMW M3s, M5s to 35 GT-Rs and even the elusive FD2R Civic!! These Type-R Civics that we don’t see in Australia really are beautiful things in the flesh and sound absolutely exquisite when revved (or not even revving). While on the note of cars, Singaporeans really do love their modding…we’ve seen all types of modifications done to cars, and despite how random the cars chosen for modification, they’re actually done real tastefully (unlike the fully sick wog mobiles we see in Sydney/all of Australia).
Anyway, after all of this we started to do some looking around in shopping centres. We visited Funan Centre for all things IT and digital. The first two levels are dedicated to cameras, whilst everything else is computers. I had a quick look at the camera stores and my god…a bog standard D300s costs 2999$! They’re still selling the D300 as well and those are still going for 2499$! I couldn’t believe it, I actually thought camera gear would be cheaper here in the Asian continent (also considering almost every second person owns a DSLR). Afterwards we visited various shopping centres around the area and I found a nice TopMan Hoodie/Jacket for about 89$ and a nice purple cardigan for 29$.
Dinner was had at Boat Quay, eating Singaporean style curry with fish head, Spicy Stingray, Dry Butter Prawns and some Satay chicken on skewers…all on the waters edge. It was definately a beautiful scene and was great to have dinner in the atmosphere.
Photos will be uploaded later but for now…time to watch some cricket and football highlights (free cable tv woot!)
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