Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Palawan Beach in Sentosa, Singapore


You can visit Palawan in Singapore. Palawan Beach is one of the few (three?) beaches in Sentosa Island in Singapore. I love this island because trams and buses take you around for free! Where in the Philippines is local transport free? We all work hard, earn enough, get harassed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue to pay more and more taxes with its arrogant and holier-than-thou dwarfish chief, only to have our Senators, Congressmen and elected officials pocket them. Sigh.

The more popular Palawan, of course, refers to the Philippine island province of some of the most dreamlike beach scenarios in Asia; a place that French naval explorer and conservationist Jacques Costeau once labelled as "the last frontier"; a place teeming with natural beauty.

Singapore has to be careful though. China just may lay another preposterous claim that they own it. A couple of months from now, this delusional communist country may have a new territorial fantasy called Nine-Plus-Three Dash line that shall include everything in the Pacific, including the Earth's core!

And if you were in Pluto, you should have heard of the new maps released recently by these Chinese trolls that's actually called ten-dash line! Are these idiots brain challenged? Or just plain opportunists? Go figure!

This is the Eye in the Sky!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Mum in Singapore






Singapore, humorously tagged “the only shopping mall with a seat in the U.N.”, is a wonderment. It’s a macrocosm of everything a concrete jungle should be. With a population of just 5 million, it’s a densely populated city-state (just second to Monaco). The Merlion (Singapore’s trademark) was designed by Fraser Brunner in 1966. It is also a “he”, with its body made of cement, its skin of porcelain, and its eyes from small red teacups! Is he a surrogate dad to the cub beside him? Rumors abound on why he is spewing liquid. Is he bulimic? Or just spitting that chewing gum to avoid prison? I shiver at the thought! My lips are sealed and I am mum in Singapore!

This is the Eye in the Sky!





























Singapore's skyline. This photo only courtesy of wikitravel's Jeff Chan.