Wandering/Wondering

Tag: Singapore

  • Why is Singapore so militarised?

    —

    by

    CBT
    in

    Singapore has a number of notable elements. There’s the grey business of the skyscrapers, the glitzy consumerism of the shopping complexes, and the bright colours of the tourist magnets like Sentosa and the Gardens by the Bay. It seems unexpected, then, that another notable feature is the number of military sites. There was one just…

  • Thailand & Singapore

    —

    by

    CBT
    in

    Day 1 Through windows of the train from the airport, I could see the spires of temples emerging out of a green tropical landscape. It was such a textbook definition of exotic, but the hours upon hours of air travel had numbed me to it. The numbness may not have been an entirely bad thing,…