Singapore by MRT: The Downtown Line, Chinatown to Bukit Panjang
The plan: Continue my adventure of visiting every MRT (subway) stop in Singapore, watching the island change one stop at a time. This trip covered a whopping eighteen stops on […]
Tag Archives: Bukit Timah
Haze Days
It’s finally happened: terrible haze has struck the island of Singapore, and it’s so bad that the government says that it has reached an “unhealthy” level for the first time […]
Animals of Asia
Wikipedia assures me that the term “fauna of Asia” is “somewhat elusive,” because there is no polite physical boundary between Europe and Asia such that we can distinguish Asian animals […]
Ghosties, Granite, and GIFs
It’s that time of year again — the time when hungry ghosts come out to eat at night, and people burn joss paper and leave offerings out on the sidewalk: […]
Of Books, Bukits, and Bondage
This morning, Prescott, Everett, and I hiked up Bukit Timah for Everett’s first trip to the highest point in Singapore. We saw lots of green things and a few small […]
Monkeys (and a Spider, and a Cat)
On Saturday, I took a diversion from my bus trip to Toa Payoh to go see MacRitchie Reservoir. Prescott and I had been to MacRitchie once before, but we’d been on […]
Four Dresses and a Carrot Cake
We started our day with our usual weekend walk down the rail trail to the Bukit Timah wet market and hawker center. At the hawker center, we ate tea thunder rice, […]
Morning Walks
I’ve gone on long walks for two of the past three mornings, one to Bukit Timah and one to Bukit Batok (“bukit” means hill in Malay). I just went up […]
The Top of Singapore
It was hot on Sunday. Really hot, and really humid. I feel like Singaporeans need to have more words for heat, the way Eskimos are rumored to have dozens of words for […]
Journey to the Wet Market
My day started with a rather soggy journey along the rail trail to the Bukit Timah wet market. The rail trail is one of the few things in Singapore that […]
Traveler Tina 