Sing Jia Buo/Sing Nia Poh/Tiu Nia Sing

My sis, mom and I were hosted by our Singaporean relatives, who were so hospitable I actually feel a lil embarrassed somehow. I dunno why. haha. I didn't take many pictures in Singapore. I also realize I'm more interested in taking nature-related pictures, e.g. bugs, trees, moss (hehe), branches, roots etc. Singapore's a nice place, my first time there in > 10 years I think, more trees than I expected (hehe), but nevertheless, not exactly what I'd call shutter's paradise for me. Chicks were aplenty though; short shorts, ample cleavage for every meal, all dolled up girls all over (MRT, malls, streets), legs.. hmmm, yeah that's about it. Lotsa chinese too, Indians and Malays are rather scarce, 'twas the first thing I noticed there. Anyway, I'll let the pictures take over from here.

Pre-fly Fly Still Fly Touchdown and collected by my Singaporean granduncle! hehe, I really liked how the trees in the car park looked from here, it's just... cool. Especially how each tree trunk branches out into branches, the whole mangle of it. Trees in a row. A lil obsessed ain't I? Ah, what the heck. haha Our shared room, which was very windy, cozy and comfortable. Extremely cold when aircon's turned on. My sister caught being retarded. Nyahahah View from the apartment's balcony.

The apartment's situated about a 10 minute walk from the nearest MRT station, (my main mode of transport when I went out alone) which was by the way, quite excellent in my opinion. You can get about anywhere you need using the trains, they're not extravagantly priced, you'll never get lost because of the good signage (come on, even the infamous "King of Directions" [me] can't get lost... it's just a good system.

Bright green tree that day.
The uncle (dad's aunt's son), and my aunt (no, not his wife, dad's brother) at a place called Ice³ (the '3' is superscript). A dessert shop that serves awesome mud pies (I think that's what they call them, it tastes like ice cream cake - mind you, they're awesome).
Example. Mmm..

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My new bball trotters!
(Damn, I just remembered there's basketball training tomorrow, gonna be super tired)
Woo!
Wooo!

ANDY AND1
okay, so I didn't take the effort to neatly tie up the laces before this shot.. got a problem?
Did I mention I really like them? (~ 100SGD after discount)

Bum Bum Bum

Night Safari!

.. which wasn't all that interesting. Echoing YH's thoughts on caged/captive animals being an atrocity, I felt rather sad for some of the animals on display as people continuously tapped the one-way glass they were separated by. Also, I didn't get to walk all 3 of the treks because the rest were tired, would've been more enjoyable alone. The safari was too brief for us to absorb anything the guide was saying, as accomplished a speaker she was. We were too far from the animals + there were too many of them, and the lighting at night ain't exactly a great big help too. All in all, it was alright, but not as fascinating as my mom read from some reviews online.

A Serval (or Serwal) from the show, cute fella.
It's hard to take pics there with that lighting at distance. This was takenat 20x zoom.
Groupie (uncle out)
Again. hahaha
A KTV place called 'Talk Cock Sing Song'. Singaporeans... tsk tsk.. hahah, bravo!
Another one of 'em mudpies (We went there twice).

While walking alone on the second day, I noticed a row of construction workers (I think) having their naps at this large, spacious hall near the City Hall station.
(Ignore the ... personal items.) See all those white boxes of tomato-flavoured 'Pretz'? Got 10 of 'em for le Dorin & Sher Lynn (Dodo & Barney) upon request (they say the flavour can't be found in Malaysia - and it's good too).
I fit more! I later repacked them to the outside compartment when I realized it was so spacious out there. haha.

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Over lunch at a dim sum place on the final day, clicketty click, I thought I found a great opportunity for pictures when my subject, the teapot, was cruelly robbed from the table by a hardworking waitress. Anyway, I managed to salvage a few..

I like the cup design, though the handle's a lil small for my fat fingers. Here's when I thought I could get a nice picture (this one's crooked, see). Tried making it darker (still haven't noticed it was crooked). Straightened a bit, but notice somethin missing? T_T Ah well, artifically maneuvering the tea cup should help. Tadah~ Starting photography early, at the airport too. hehe. Pre-departure. Fei gay. Yeah-row-plains.

ON BOARD!

Oh wait, I forgot to introduce something. My new guitar knob from Singapore! haha. For Emma's lost 'tone' knob =pBooya!
lalala~
Emma, standing proud.. Man, I love her so much.. *muah*
But I hurt her, by accident. Been there quite a while, that lil wound. Too much passion when we were going at it.. >_< Alright, time to potong stim. The knob is a lil too short, so it looks ri-dick-ulous from the side.
My room after the trip. Total disaster.
Mess..
But I didn't pack anything up till really late, because..
I had a new toy! Meet the fabled "Cream Tone", who sounds just like the name suggests! Sexy!
The current assemblage; dear cream tone has found her place in my make-shift pedal board (board from my Ikean bookshelf).

Vintage Sepia?
or Old school B&W (Black&White)? Cream tone handles them eras pretty damn good =p (35o SGD *sob*)
And then there were the 101 boxes of Pretz unpacked.
hmmmm?
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Meet Hermit (Hermie's sister) the Harmonica! hahah (man, I'm running out of names). But I have a named reserved for my eventual proper harmonica, Hermie & Hermit are both kinda like prototypes. I'll test my skill on them and if I like them and I get good at it.. I'll get a proper, sexy one =p

The reason I bought Hermit. She's in C-key, unlike her sister who's in G-key. Also, she has this pin that allows me to play the #s and bs (sharps and flats) of the full 12 toned chromatic scale, though I'm still getting used to it now. Hermit was the only 'affordable' model with this feature, at 12SGD, she really feels cheap, but she's quite nice to play with.

I'm sleepy, nitez world, may edit up a lil if I wanna tomorrow.