one: speed.

i think the ultimate thing to cope with here in Singapore is the speed. everything is so FAST. i don't think there's anything else to keep up with other than the speed of the things going on here. everything is so quick and efficient that it gets to you to make you feel like you need to be quick and efficient also. even physically everyone naturally just walks at a faster pace than in Malaysia. i suppose that's the starkest difference in culture. 

anyways, this is officially my first weekend here in Singapore, and my friend took me out for a tour around SG yesterday! on Friday my other friend brought me around Bugis and today i was at church but i didn't take photos for both of these.

this is probably my most favorite SG hang out place so far : Haji Lane!

most of the shops/boutiques here open at noon time, so i can only imagine that this is possibly one of  the most laid-back parts of Singapore. when we were there the shops weren't opened yet so we didn't get to visit any, but i am certainly going back to this place to snap more photos in the future! (and make friends :D)

this building we chanced upon by accident had a strange European, Great Gatsby-ish kind of feel to it. it was a business building but it looked like a massive tower of evil. and then it had these really funny bronze statues, varying from Plato, Mozart, Sun Yat-Sen to many others. also it had this. this "Party Hard" (as i'd love to call it) Greek-esque wall sculpture thing. it reminded me so much of Hercules. and maybe Michael Jackson.

this shot was taken at the 10th floor of Singapore's National Library! my friend brought me to the library and even though we didn't have time to explore the entire building (more than 10 floors, go figure), i picked to go to their Gallery and we walked around for just a bit. the building has glass windows/walls so you can imagine how awesome it looks like. 

stepping into a real cathedral for the first time in SG! this is St. Andrew's Cathedral, where they had legit pews and tinted windows. this is probably my favorite shot/place of the day too! (other than Haji Lane/Kampong Glam, heh)

Gardens By The Bay @ Marina Bay Sands. 

also one of my favorite shots of the day. i imagined a wedding shoot to happen on this bench, or just some sort of shoot that depicted a varying spectrum of emotions. somehow this bench and its positioning spoke so much to me. amidst a busy, fast-going city, this bench--white-washed and lonely, is placed here, away from perhaps, many other lonely benches in the park. this was taken from a bridge that took us into the park, and many people were taking pictures of the city or the huge artificial plant-like structures that Gardens by the Bay were known for, but i saw this bench. i saw you.

creepy baby alert.

this bronze-and-steel sculpture made by Marc Quinn is a form of art so strange and impossible, because the entire sculpture sits on one hand, and nothing else touches the ground. it seems so weightless despite the size and mass,

also, honest opinion: how is this not creepy? imagine walking into this larger-than-life sculpture at night. boom. there goes your heart and soul.

these are some of the shots we took of the abandoned buildings that we were supposed to visit, but it turns out this place was already taken over by the military, so we couldn't enter the premises. so here, have some cool shots from outside the fence instead. now everything looks trapped and isolated.

oh look, luxurious food in UTown! (yes these are within UTown premises, not even NUS itself haha) and i think we have a Starbucks somewhere too. 

the art of stalking people.

i took these shots while i was walking back to my college/room. i think i'll do this more often. i met a guy who's a professional photographer and he's practicing how to take candid pictures of people accurately without them noticing. i should start doing that as well (:

onward to more adventures in Singapore!

am going into campus tomorrow, so i'll try to not look too much like a tourist.