One week later - 2

I didn't get to finish my post last night, so I will start where I left off...

Start this blog by asking yourself a simple question... 'Have you ever felt what heat exhaustion feels like?' If you answer was "no", that’s good; if your answer was "no, but I sure would love to!" then do yourself a big favor and just book a flight to Singapore. After running and doing the China town thing Chris (another R-R expat) and I headed to a bbq at the hotel next door. This might normally be a good way to relax after a long day, but that Saturday night I was given a healthy dose of Singaporean heat sickness. There were a few issues that led to this fate. One, the long day; two, the fact the walls around the pool blocked all notions of a cooling breeze; three, instead of nice bbq drinks like cool-aid, coke, or water, all they had was beer. Beer is just one of those rare things that can be both a blessing or a curse depending only on when/where you drink it. In this case, drinking beer for 6 hours in a sauna is both the wrong place and the wrong time Lesson learned = water is good when you have been sweating bullets all day, beer is good when you haven’t...

Well, after a whole ass ton of water (which for you engineering folks is exactly three metric shit loads) and about 10 hours of sleep it was time to get back at it. Next stop, Sentosa, Singapore's very lame answer to Disney Land. About 2o years ago they decided to turn an old military base into a man made resort play land. Pretty much take Disney Land, replace the castle with a merlion, all the rides with crap attractions, and the carnival midway with man made beaches *sic* and you have Sentosa. Actually, it was fun but just not as great as the tourism board makes it out to be, here are some pictures.

From 2) China Town...

This is the MerLion. Its name comes from a portmanteau of a mermaid and a lion; which is to say, its half of each. Its a pretty cool symbol for a city that you would like to trace generations back to some historic legend. Unfortunately in this case, you can trace it back to the tourism board of 1968; oh well, still looks good enough. This one in particular is about 80 feet tall and you can pay 8 bucks to climb up into its mouth. Nice, but I will keep my 8 bucks.

From 2) China Town...

This shows an old WWII fort with a wild peacock in the window. I think that speaks for itself.

These next few pictures show why Sinaporean beaches leave something to be desired, not to mention an oil slick all over your body.

From 2) China Town...

From 2) China Town...

These pictures sort of make you think "A-2, miss; A-3, hit; B-3, hit; C-3, YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!" There really is no escaping it though, in spite of all of the beauty of this town, it is still in transportation super-hub. There are ships everywhere you look out to see, and not small ones either. The Container ships are the most impressive as they are unbelievably huge. Anything that makes a cruise ship look mundane is impressive in my book.