As you can see from Erin's pictures, Singapore's architecture is a pretty fascinating combination of modern sky-rises in the commercial district, and very well preserved two story shop-houses in Chinatown and Little India, to the shipdocks turned restaurants featured on the quays.
And then there is what Erin and I now, affectionately, call "the spaceship," and what Sings call the IR. The next great economic development here is gambling, and because somehow casino is a dirty word, this Sands development is an Integrated Resort, or IR. I am still looking for the best way to describe this thing, it either looks like someone is trying to dock a cruise ship atop three 50-story towers, or like Richard Branson is going to start flying Virgin Galactic flights off the top of this thing.
Perhaps the funniest feature of the casino in Singapore is that there is an entrance fee of S$100 for citizens to enter the casino. Foreigners? no problem, but the locals will have to fork over some cash before they can know when to hold, know when to fold em.
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ReplyDeletePS - Aug 2K11: Curtiss/Millar Vietnam Bonanza, woot woot.
PPS - This is Tom. My name shows up at "burrito blogger" because I once started a blog on this website to comment on my various burrito-eating experiences. I think I did two posts or something. It was pretty sweet.