At the conclusion of the photo assignment, Nick and I headed up to Singapore to renew our visas and visit a friend from Oxford. We arrived early on Friday morning to the shining face of our friend Wei-Leong and were quickly whisked into what would be a very comprehensive tour of this city-state. Singapore was almost sterile compared to Jakarta. It was delightful to walk the clean streets and admire the architecture and tourist attractions without constant ‘hello misters, where you from misters, where you going misters’. Singapore is organized in almost a Chinese sense of the word, but is flavored with a dash of leftover British colonialism, an interesting conglomerate to say the least.
Wei declared his mission for the weekend to us immediately upon arrival. He had a long list of the tourist sights we were to see (every moment fairly packed with one optical delight after another), but more importantly, we were going to try every type of food that Singapore is famous for. This is no mean feat as
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