15 June 2010 : Chinatown and a bit of Clark Quay...

Today i met my friend Abi, whom i have known since collage - maybe 4 to 5 years. Its always a pleasure to meet her and talk to her and share ideas with her. She is specially talented in photography and is an absolutely amazing person. I hope all works out perfectly well for her. We met at chinatown and walked around, went to clark quay (just a few minutes walk from C-town), got some sake (which i just opened to taste, so i guess i need to buy a new bottle to bring back with us..thats totally in order) and japanese wheat tea. It was a fun day out with Abi :D

This is Chinatown Point. One of the many shopping centers.

This shop sold buddhist statues, the laughing buddha and other similar chinese god related statues.

Walaaa! Shopping street!

Poor bird stuck in the cage (actually alot of older chinese men actually have an interest in birds, so they have many types of birds in such cages. Sometimes they come together and you can see so many cages with birds chirping 'lemme out of here'). Thats just a small trivia! :)

And so after taking the train - one stop, we were in Clark Quay! Dont judge us, it was a REALLY hot day to be just walking around.... :D

Thats the route to clubs, restaurants and lotsa alcohol!

This is Central shopping mall, one of the relatively new malls in the area.

You could take a little boat ride...

And this was the end of my day, before i left to go home...and after i saw 3 huskies! OH MY WORD!

14 June 2010 : Arab Street, Singapore

I am back in Singapore after almost a year. It might not be a long time, yet there are so many new buildings. I always find myself looking out of the bus or sticking my neck out as i walk to see a spankingly new building. Amazing. Moving too fast? I am pretty sure theres always a good and bad side to everything. But in a way, its nice to be home, though its difficult to say convincingly 'home' cause i have also spent 6 years growing up in Brunei, and months in other countries.

Today i decided to try taking pictures of buildings in and around Arab Street. Hope you would enjoy my little tour of one part of little singapore!

This is an old building in Arab Street. The current trend is to have a boutique where art stuff, carpets, fashion related things are sold. I like the nice colors added to the building.

This is one of the famous mosque in Arab Street. I thought that it looked quite nice with the sky. As noticed, the area 'Arab street' is the part of singapore that was initally divided by the British for the muslim or settlers from Malaysia.

This shop sold chinese decorations :)

This is a typical building one can see in singapore.

Parkview Square - Mainly consist of offices.

This is actually 200m from Arab street, and its mainly chinese hawker shops. This building style is seen in Chinatown - which i will go tomorrow:)

This is the National Library, it was renovated about 3 years ago. This is the central or main branch. They have other libaries in other parts of singapore.

Nice sunlight effect.

This is where i spent most of my 4 years at - my university's library building.

Asian Civilisation Museum - its just across my university.

Hope you enjoyed todays tour, ladies!