We can start the day with a visit to the Singapore Art Museum(SAM), then cross the street behind the Singapore Management University is the National Museum, if you still have time, walk to the left, cross the Fort Canning tunnel and end the day with a visit to the Peranakan Museum.

To get to the Singapore Art Museum, take the MRT, make your way to the Circle Line(Yellow) and alight at the Bras Basah MRT station. Follow the signs to the exit nearest Singapore Art Museum. The National Museum is just across SAM. Just cross the street and your there. Do make sure to be early as you will need a lot of time to fully absorb the interactive sights and sounds experience on the history of Singapore at the National Museum. Both Museums have a open/free to all schedule but these are after 5pm on a specific day or on International Museum Day and other events, check out their websites for more information. If you still have time after that, head towards your right and cross the Fort Canning Tunnel, a couple of meters and you will be at the Peranakan Museum. After that, you can head towards the SMRT Headquarters and across that will be Raffles City and the City Hall MRT station below.

Also on this area is the St. Joseph’s Cathedral and across that is Chijmes. These are beside SAM. Across Raffles City is St. Andrews, City Hall and the Padang. If you want a good view of the City, you can also go exit from the back of the National Museum or take the escalator on the outside left of the building towards Fort Canning Park, this fort also has much history and a good walking experience, I’d say a late afternoon to early night would be a good time to visit. The Battle Box on Fort Canning is also a good adventure, the World War 2 headquarters of for the defence of Singapore, a networked underground structure used by the British and Malayan forces.

The next day, you can head on to the Peranakan Museum and a couple of meters on it’s left side is the National Archives and the Singapore Philatelic Museum. A good couple of hours can be wasted on those two. After which, head on down towards the Fire Station to their Civil Defence Heritag Gallery inside the Central Fire Station. You can then head on down towards the river and Clarke Quay, follow it down stream passing by the Parliament, Boat Quay and then Asian Civilizations Museum. Also on this site is the landing site of Sir Stamford Raffles and Cavenagh Bridge. Across the bridge is the Fullerton Hotel and on the mouth of the river is the Merlion and Esplanade. The Asian Civilizations will take half a day to digest and on your way home, you can pass through the back towards City Hall and the Padang, which are sights to behold themselves and take the train on the City Hall MRT station.

Across the river is the Esplanade, with a mall on it's side beside it is a Grand stand facing a  floating platform where Soccer/Football can be played, this is very interesting as the platform is floating on the Singapore River.

A couple of meters on is the Singapore flyer, the newest attraction in Singapore and is the largest observatory, the only other structure similar to this is the London Eye. It takes 30 minutes for one full rotation and below the wheel is a 3 story mall and a nature park in the middle. On the peak, one gets a full view of Singapore as well as some islands, Indonesia and Malaysia on a clear day. The Hippo and Duck Tours also have offices on the first floor so if your up to it, you can have a tour of Singapore on a Amphibian or go on a whole day of hop-on hop-off of all tourist spots. One of the best stores in the building is Popeyes, with it's famous chicken and coleslaw, however the it had a different coleslaw from the Hong Kong Popeye, weird.

Moving on, a couple of blocks is Suntec City, passing inside Millenia Walk before getting to Suntec 5. Millenia Walk is the uber high class mall, hence the name. In Suntec City, we headed straight to the Fountain of Wealth, the largest fountain in the world. I three full circle pass on the middle of the fountain while touching the spring was suppose to bring us good luck. As we were not there for shopping, we moved pass Suntec 4, 3, 2 and 1 quickly and went down to the underground pass towards the City Hall MRT station.

The underground pass was actually a underground mall, It seemed to be a hundred or two meters of shops leading to the MRT station.

Next stop was Vivo City to ride the mono-rail to Sentosa. The mono-rail station is at the top floor of Vivo City and riding it is an experience all by itself. First stop was imbiah station where the Merlion, sights and sound of singapore, butterfly garden, 4d theater and tiger sky tower was. A walk around this huge mountain was tiring enough, and to think Sentosa was a whole island, I dreaded the thought of walking from one end to another.

After reading some info and facts, I found out that the island bus was free and will bring us from end to end or from one attraction to another. As the attractions were pretty much expensive, we decided to focus on the Songs of the Sea show at 7 and the 2 in 1 Pink Dolphin and Underwater World. The pink dolphine show was a bit different from what we experience at the Hong Kong Ocean park, there were only 3 pink doplhins and the venue was the white beach front of (amusingly) Palawan beach. The show was more intimate as volunteers could go into the shore, get wet and play with the dolphins.

After the show, we frolicked a while on Palawan beach and headed on to Siloso beach on the other end of the island, we were off to the underwater world. Also a different experience from HK Ocean Park as there was a conveyor that took us around and there was a overhead view of the fishes in the aquarium. One of the attractions was the dugong. Outside the attractions and almost everywhere were free roaming animals such as monkeys and peacocks, which made the feeling and setting of being in an island park more suitable. 

We then headed on to Siloso beach and took a couple of pictures before heading off to the Songs of the Sea show. We had to be at the beach side venue early as good seats get snatched up, being at the venue 30 minutes early afforded us a good view of the show in the middle of it all. The laser, lights, water and stage show was great, it was long enough to enjoy. It is a must for all who will be in Singapore.

Before heading home, instead of riding the mono-rail from the beach station, we decided to walk up the merlion park and ride from the imbiah station. The park had colorful tiles and water fountains, also the view from the tram and luge can be seen.

Back at Vivo City, since there was still some time, we decided to drop by Bugis and do a little shopping, the Bugis MRT is directly below the Bugis Junction mall and across Bugis. Bugis seems to be like an in-door night market or ladies market of Hong Kong, all the cheapest shirts, watches and everything you could think of is available.

After bugis, it was time to go home and rest.

The next day was as full as the previous, First stop was Mustafa, the 24 hour department store with everything for sale, from groceries, chocolates, bags, apparel, jewelry to electronics. Getting there took a while as from boon lay MRT to Farrer Park MRT was really far. Around Mustafa where a lot of persian/indian stores and restaurants. The smell of curry was hypnotizing but my wife would not dare eat persian food.

Next stop was Orchard Road, I decided to alight at the Orchard MRT station at the end of Orchard road and walk down this famous street towards Somerset MRT. After getting out of the station, first stop was Takashimaya, it was really hot outside as it was already noon and the cool mall gave us respite, across Takashimaya was Lucky Plaza, made famous by throngs of  Filipinos converging in it every Sunday. We decided to eat lunch here. As expected, lunch was interesting, ate a 5 dollar meal of meat and vegetables which seemed to taste really bland, but interesting still.

After Lucky Plaza, moving down, we passed by a couple more malls and ate 1 dollar sandwich ice cream. Moving down a couple of malls brought us to Somerset MRT station and I made a mental note, spend half day on Orchard Road on my next visit.

Next stop, Chinatown. The recently revitalized chinatown was surprisingly clean and orderly, a couple of stalls selling everything Chinese and a couple of restaurants in the middle and at the farther end. Looking at the map, there were also hindu, buddhist temples nearby but as we did not have enough time, we decided to move along. 

Last stop before going home and packing for the trip back home was Clarke Quay. It was early afternoon and the Quay was still quite and serence, although a couple of people rode the reverse bungee, mental note, ride the bungee on my next visit. We stayed on the river side for a while and rest before going home.

And so ending our whirlwind tour of singapore with Clarke Quay, I envisioned of coming back to singapore and spend a more leisurely walking tour of the riverside, nature parks and museum. Little did I know that two weeks after this visit, Cebu Pacific will have another sale and I got hold of 3k round trip tickets back to Singapore on June, Hooray ! Singapore here I come(back), see you all in two weeks time.