redux: Prang!

Karyn and Dan from Canada drop by Singapore for five days while going through Europe and Southeast Asia. We're all easygoing so it's like we're old chums except we've only met last night. The National Museum has a great exhibition on Arab culture, Living Under the Crescent Moon. Since I'd already planned on going, I invite them along and we all go together.

Who wants to look at the musuem?

Some parts of the Museum are free on some parts of the day, but we decided to go the whole hog and pay the entrance fee. But boy, the museum was huge, and after four hours, we'd only coverd less than a quarter of it. Too much history and culture to take in at one go, so we fled the museum with our tails between our legs.

Lunch!

The view from our picnic spot.

The boys are a little defective.

My frisbee's in my bag so we decide to get some food and picnic at the Padang and toss the frisbee. That is, until a thunderstorm threatens, and the SCC threatens us too. So we cut short our frisbee game for some ice kachang under the Esplanade Bridge. Next to the water, sheltered from the rain, they're stuffing their face on mediocre ice kachang when they suddenly choke and realise that the Merlion's right THERE. Picture-taking is in order (of course) and we try to bully the other tourist groups (7 & 9).

Karyn and Dan do their mandatory shot.

While Karyn takes this gorgeous one.

Next stop, Raffles Hotel's Long Bar for the Singapore Sling ("How colonial"). We get a little lost, oddly enough, and my credibility as a local is cast into doubt. In my defence, we were underground. It's true though, that until now, I havent really explored my own city, and all this outings with travellers are making me feel like even I'm on holiday too. Grrreat. This is like the extended summer vacation-December/June holiday-spring break-block leave-gap year. Wicked!