Singapore City

 I visited Singapore for my internship at the M hotel (Millenium and Copthorne Hotel Company) last year from March 2006 to September 2006. Although I just stayed there for 6 month, I visited a lot of interesting places. The first place that I visited is Orchard Road.

There are a lot of place to shop along the road. This place has a lot of shopping centre or mall. For example, there are Wisma Atria which has a unique architecture than another shopping centre along Orchard Road, Takashimaya which is the red building and inside got a lot of branded things, Tang buliding which its shape like a pagoda, etc. Here also got a building named Cathay Cineleisure that has 10 floor. Inside Cathay Cineleisure got E-Games, K-Box(for Karaoke), accessories sites, and theatre (from the 6th to 9th floor). The theater open midnight on Saturday. Almost all places in Singapore got mall. Inside the mall, usually you can find Baleno, Giordano, Kevin and James to buy clothes. You also can find Seven Eleven, the 24hours mini-market. Then you can find Burger King, Pizza Hut, Mac Donald, KFC, or Starbucks. Along the road you can buy Lakchi or Old Chang Kee as a snack. You also can buy 1dollar ice cream.
In Singapore you also can find a traditional market, but it is very clean there. Sometimes you can see a fat cat over there. I’ve never seen a skinny cat in the market. It seems that all the cats are fat and healthy. The food in market are cheaper and it has the same taste with the food we eat at food centre. I ussualy eat Nasi lemak,Nasi Briyani, Mee Rebus, Mee Soto, Char shew, or Pork chop. For appetizer you can try Carrot cake. For drinks you can try Sugar cane, Ice Kachang, Aloe Vera or Jellygrass.

Mee Rebus

You can try Chili Crab at East Coast, the original food from Singapore. It is very delicious, but it’s very expensive. East Coast is a place near to the beach. You can see Johor Baru from East Coast. It is an interesting place to see the beach and play in-line skate or ride a bycicle. There is a special place to play in-line skate or ride a bycicle or just for jogging. You can held a barbercue party here. At night there are a lot of couple come here to see the beach and take a walk or eat the food.
If you like to see animals, you can visit Singapore Zoo at daytime or Night Zoo at night. Actually the place is same, the different is just the time to visit. You also can visit Jurong Birds Park. They have more than 1,000 collection of birds there. You can take a picture with animals, you can see animal’s attractions (Sealion, racoon, birds, etc) at Singapore Zoo. You must come in the morning so that you can enjoy all the attraction and see all the animals there. Night Zoo also nice to visit. Sometimes we can see a night animals here. Singapore Zoo is so big, but we don’t need to take a walk all the time, we also can take a tram. We can enjoy foods also and we can buy souvenir here.
If you visit City Hall, don’t forget to visit The Fountain of Wealth. This fountain was built depend on fengshui. If you come at daytime and circle the fountain three times and ask for a wish, your wish will come true. If you touch the fountain you will have a good luck throughout the year. If you come at night, you can’t circle the fountain, but you can send a message to your boyfriend/ girlfriend, and it will appear in the fountain. It lights by a laser. It is very nice whether you come at daytime or night. You also can see the original Merlion (statue or symbol of Singapore) here. You also can visit The Esplanade (a theatre which its shape like Durian). You can watch any performances (musical or drama performance) here.
The best place for people who want to enjoy his/her holiday is Sentosa Island. This island is near to Singapore and it’s belong to Singapore. You can take a ferry, bus or cable car to go there. In Sentosa Island you can play on the beach or visit The Underwater World (you can see any fish and pink dolphin here), Buterfly and Insects Park, 3D Magics Movie, Carlsberg Tower, Merlion Walk, Images of Singapore, Fort Siloso (here you can see statue of soldiers, cannon and tunnel), Orchids Garden, etc. The most favourite show is Musical Fountain and it’s free. If you come late, u can’t enter and can’t enjoy the show. You must come at least half an hour before the show begins or you will not get a place to sit. You can stay in Shangrila Hotel if you visit Sentosa Island.
If you like to enjoy drinks and band performance or go for dance at night, you can visit Clarke Quay or Boat Quay. There are a lot of bars and night clubs. The most popular night club near Clarke Quay is MOS. The most popular night club near Grand Copthorne Waterfall is ZOUK.
If you want to see the Indian ethnics, you can visit Little India. Here got shopping centre that is selling cosmetics, perfumes, bags, and ‘Sari’ clothes for cheap price. You can also enjoy Indian foods like Roti Prata, Curry rice, etc. You must try ‘Teh Tarik’ or ‘Milo Dinasaur’ as your drink. If you are looking for Chinese products, you can visit Chinatown. You can see many lanterns on ‘Moon Cake Festival’. You can enjoy Hainanese Chicken Rice, Bak Kut Teh and ‘Sup Organ Dalam’. You can drink Oolong tea or Chinese tea.
You can visit Chinese and Japanese Garden at Jurong East. There you can see a pagoda and twins turtle which have one ‘home’. They attract people by swimming in different directions and back to its ‘home’ at the same time.
I like to stay in Singapore because there is clean and safe. We can easily go to anywhere in Singapore. We can take MRT (underground train) or SBS (bus). We can use Ez-Link or one way ticket to take the train and bus.