Tuesday 1st April
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| Singapore orchids |
By the way…just
in case anyone, other than ME, was fretting…all of my defrauded money has been
paid back into my Westpac account.
$5,483…I am
very relieved and very grateful to the bank, but annoyed that the fraudsters
just got away with it; none of the refund came out of their nasty sticky
pockets!!
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| A lovely turaco to celebrate the refund (and no i had never heard of a turaco before...) |
One thing we will miss in Little India is the
restaurants.
Indian food at its very best! I love the sexy statues, the superfriendly
waiters, the glorious brinjal dishes.
(Brinjal = eggplant, my very favourite vegetable.)
Khansama
restaurant was brilliant. Next time you
are in Singapore – go there!! On our way
out from the Grand Chancellor* we passed a venue where they were having a
toddler birthday party. SO cute!
In the
evening the Arab Street area is even more beautiful.
The dome
gleams golden, and the tower changes colour, like the lovely candle Chantal (SV
Micromegas) gave me….
On Sunday
night we ate at Zam Zam, a very cheap & cheerful BUSY place down the
street. Pete thought a murtobak would be
a nice entrée, to share between us…and it was MORE than enough; we didn’t move
on to our other options of veg curry, nasi lemak etc etc…
Pete made
some very nice new friends in a carpet shop:
How many
carpet shops are there in the world, all selling these wonderful hand-made
carpets from Iran, Afghanistan? And how
many people are labouring away, doing those tiny stitches??
On our river
cruise I took another photo of the Hill Street Police Station. (It is now a centre for Arts & Culture
& Multiculturalism & This & That but…it once, not very long ago,
was Hill Street Police Station!!)
I love this
bright and cheery building. And the name
brings many happy connections/connotations.**
Yesterday we
ventured forth on another touristy adventure – the Science Center, at Jurong
East. On the way to the MRT station at
Bugis we walked past a most ornate and fantastic modern skyscraper.
It has
states, water features, decorations, gold, bronze all over!
Where angels fear to tread…we went in and immediately started taking photos…
So
amazing! Frescoes everywhere, gold leaf,
complicated mouldings, marble… We had hardly begin clickety-clicking when a
security guard came over very sternly to say, NO CAMERAS! We immediately went into placatory mode… She calmed
down and explained that the building contains offices and about four embassies. Oh oops… Many apologies. But there were tables, chairs, a bar, a stage? She said we were welcome to come there for live
music and drinks in the evening. We could
buy wine, but we would be dressed like fairies and then we could go upstairs
for our carefully selected wine. Ummm…I
think there was a bit lost in translation here…
We spent
many hours in the Science Centre. Lots of
the exhibits involved crouching or leaning…maybe the target group is children,
or very short adults…
It was all
very well done, and very interesting, but…exhausting…
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| LOTS OF MATHS... |
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| And lots of optical illusions which I hope wee not too bewildering for Pete's eyes... |
* No we do
not miss the Grand Chancellor – Hotel Clover is so much more wonderful in every
single way.
** Who remembers Hill Street Blues, in the 80s – Everybody be careful out there… I loved that show! And in Hobart the name Hill Street has become
synonymous with…FineFood…and we all love FineFood!!
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