I’d like to share another good walking tour, this time focused on Museums. As visiting a Museum would take time, I believe 2 to 3 Museums in a day would be enough so as content would be properly absorbed. Singapore is endowed with a couple of really good museums, expected of any major tourist destination and from a nation fully supported of arts and culture most specially Singapore which is a melting pot of various cultures harmoniously living and working together.
My parents was here for a visit for the past few days and I brought them around and had them tastes the best of everyday Singapore food at an authentic local experience of eating in hawker centres. I believe I already mentioned that it’s very busy time at work and it still is so I think for the next couple of weeks.
Yesterday, I had lunch with my colleagues at Tian Tian on Maxwell Food Center. One of the best if not the only chicken rice that anybody should consider eating while in Singapore. Anthony Bourdain himself ate the flavorfull and very tasty chicken rice, they use a special sauce to dip the chicken in and pour a little on the rice, its not too oily and helps the rice not dry, adds just enough flavor to it. The chicken is tender and some portions of the white meat almost melts in your mouth.
The seemingly lowly and always taken for granted tissue is very much respected here in Singapore. For most of us, we do not even give it a thought, a tissue is a tissue and we often take it for granted, throw it around, wastefully use it, don’t bother how it is doing and discard it at will. The only instances where people give it the higest importance is when you really have to go or when we are eating and there is no running water and it’s not there in which we would scramble around to look for a roll or even a precious few, After which when we have already done our business we thank the inventors for inventing such.
With my second trip to Singapore this year, I was determined to make time and make sure I go to museums. On the list were the Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of Singapore and the Asian Civilizations Museum.
Back from a 5 day hiatus in Singapore, it was fun yet fun. I was there with two of my office colleagues and we stayed at Bullion Park in Yio Chu Kang. Last March I was at Jurong West, who knows where I will be next.
I was able to purchase 0 fares from Cebu Pacific for Cebu to Hong Kong and I scheduled a 3 full day trip with my family and the timing was great as the last day will be my wife’s birthday.
I am now back from the Toastmasters District 75 Convention in Davao City. It was my first national convention but not my first time in Davao. We had a lot of fun as I was with my close office buddies for this trip. We experienced a lot of first. The definite highlights of the trip were the 300 meter zip line and the whole fresh tuna sashimi.
I will be flying to Davao City very early tomorrow morning together with my fellow Aboitiz Toastmasters, This will be my first District Convention and I am eager to attend. I am also eager to hear from the keynote speaker, Bo Sanchez, as I have seen and heard him from TV as well as read his blog and published articles.
Together with my family, we went to Singapore early March, partly to visit my wife’s brother and secondly to soak up on what Singapore has to offer. My mom and dad went to Singapura(Lion City in Malay) in 2004 for a exhibit and they were all praises for the 710.2 km2(and growing) City State. It’s Three and a half the size of Cebu City, my home town, but it’s densely populated with a 4.8 million population, it can get crowded out there.