Singapore: almost perfect, but...
Palms, shiny green leaves of banana trees, orchids smiling, lights and colors, hygiene and smiles, peace, calm, organization .. but where I am? The Air Asia flight from Penang landed less than half an hour but it appears that the flight has transported us to another continent .. we are always in Asia, secure?
Singapore welcomes you with its phantasmagoric already tropical airport, where every tear, every detail is surrounded by greenery, flowers, plants, palms. Everything in its place, all right, all Asian ordered all scenically spectacular.
Singapore Changi is a symbol and image of a city beautiful, livable (at least as elusive visitor), hot and humid as Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur as a green (or maybe more), commercial and more as the square of sorrellastra Hong Kong. The unknowns are the passport control at the corner, often cause problems, but it passed without problems. We decide to venture on the most economical means ahh ... big mistake ... While the airport is connected to the city from all kinds of means, we decide to take the slow bus 36! employing its quiet hour or to get downtown, the avenues for collecting palmeggiati urban citizenship in
Singapore, old shopping, fashion olds, signed from head to toe, speaking English, business people and not western, women career, in short .. any city, in a continent with any .. 28 degrees, 80% humidity, the monsoon at the corner and shopping centers such as King Kong crushes the streets of these horrible crimes metropolis of money and good life.
After the stop at the hotel, we cemented diving in the waters of Orchard Road,
Singapore magnificent succession of good, good of
Singapore, that wealthy, tourists from the pockets bulging, lights of Christmas, the prayers of the children .. "Please Let it snow !!!"... bahh poor children in
Singapore .. even Santa Claus to your almond eyes can leave the road the snow dream. But
Singapore has in Serbian for them this too: crear sell its glittering windows and colored under tons and tons of colored cement that too, thousand palms, green purple and red, money, money, money .. everything can be bought at Singapura, all or perhaps everything. Orchard Road shows off her beautiful arms, long arms of shops, culverts peering between the folds of your and my wallet, calling your god of money, and whisper "buy, buy, drink, eat, see, buy, buy, sell, come, enter .. " A continuous succession of opportunities for food, beverage and merchandise, including luxury hotels and glass skyscrapers.
This is Christmas here ...
The old town is Padang, just past Orchard, two metro stops, City Hall stop most appropriate. Founded by the British, perhaps founded by others, a small port that Sr Raffles upset and decided to re-found, giving the stratospheric commercial importance for centuries maintained at the expense of Malacca and Penang, and soon became the most important commercial basis between Hong Kong (Canton ) and Madras in India.
Young and young city state, where many things are banned and many granted in the old town gives the image, beautiful and clean tropical colonial center, with well-maintained buildings of British style, along a scenic river and spectacular skyline a really exciting . The Padang is still as it was then the center where he played cricket, rugby, you run and dance. The skyscrapers remind your soul west of the city, Chinatown and Little India, true and beautiful in their diversity and originality reminiscent indivisible souls of this city within a city: Malay, Chinese, Indian, British, a mix of Asian-speaking English or Mandarin where smoking is prohibited on the street like in Tokyo, where each hotel has its own private shopping mall, where fashion brands can not fail, where there are Chinese who go to Mass at church, where Indian Muslims and Hindus in Malaysia are Catholics who pray in the western Hindu temples, Indian girls waiting for Santa Claus, Chinese girls waiting for Santa Claus, Malaysian girls who wait for the snow, the snow will not, but sure that
Singapore will be able to give, buy, create ...
Immersed in a green that I had never so much impressed as a film art director, recalls HongKong
Singapore but bringing a touch of architectural and historical wealth, that wonderful mix of people and cultures, traditions and cuisine, people going and coming, each leaving something of his own, legends and magic in a city perpetually damp, stifling trade and eternally. Perfection is trying not find it `s not the cliff until you find ... nodes of liberty which maintains close and closed a distant drawer wooden bamboo.
Take a break,
Singapore deserves a look ..