On my first trip to Singapore (Oct. 19-23), I was most surprised at how from the tallest building you can cast your eyes about and see the whole country. It's 26 miles wide and 14 miles from north to south. It's filled with many tall buildings that are both business and residential and it's a city of opposites. One morning I had a peanut soup for $1 and a cocktail for $24.
After our first day at our work offsite, we went up to the rooftop for drinks and here's me having my first Singapore Sling cocktail drink.
Afterwards we went to dinner at this Noodle Market which had tons of vendors selling all kinds of traditional Singaporean foods.
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And I loved this dessert... reminded me of mochii
After filling ourselves with food, we went karaoke.
And then my first sight-seeing activity in Singapore was to the Marina Bay Sands Hotel which is one of the highest buildings in the city.
After a day of shopping - where I purchased my very first pair of designer shoes (a la Carrie Bradshaw Salvatore Ferragamo) - we checked out the Merlion (head of a lion, body of a fish) which is the mascot of Singapore. And according to Wikipedia "the fish body represents Singapore's origin as a fishing village when it was called Temasek, which means 'sea town' in Javanese and the lion head represents Singapore's original name — Singapura — meaning "lion city" or 'kota singa'."
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