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 […]
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Singapore by MRT: The Downtown Line, Expo to Fort Canning
The plan: Continue my adventure of visiting every MRT (subway) stop in Singapore, seeing how the country changes as you travel beneath the land and then pop up every few […]
Singapore by MRT: The North East Line
The plan: Visit every MRT (subway) stop on the North East Line (aka the Purple Line) in one day. The rules: Get out at every stop and spend ten to […]
A Day Along the Singapore River
Yesterday Prescott and I went downtown see Everett and Anna (both Park School class of 2009) and Everett’s parents, Brian and Sally. Everett and Anna now live in Singapore; Brian […]
Holland Comes to Singapore
It’s time for Tulipmania! Every year, Singapore hosts a huge tulip festival in the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay. The theme this year is Vincent van Gogh: They had […]
Gardens, Gods, and Goods
Prescott, Quinn and I started our morning with a short walk along the rail trail to Springleaf Prata (which we just call “Rail Mall Prata”) for a breakfast of pratas, […]
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, […]
The Festival of Lights
It’s Deepavali (also known as Diwali), the Hindu festival of lights, which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness. If you read Wikipedia and try to figure out what Hindu […]
Henna Day
Today’s adventure was centered on a trip to Little India with my new friend Megan to have our hands hennaed (not sure that’s a true verb, but I like it). […]
