September 16, 2016
Singapore
Given
that working schedules in Sembawang Area Ship yard are conflicting /
constricting for me to fully roam the place unrestricted. For now most of my
free time in exploring the whole island is limited only during night time
hours, Here in Sembawang and Yishu area - there are only two malls , ( one which I even hesitate to even call a mall at all
) . Sun plaza Mall and the other Northern
Point Mall.
Shops in
these malls are very small compared to shops in the Philippines, even the
electronic stores and book stores here is lacking of selections. If I were to
compare a typical "National bookstore" shop and "CDR-king"
shop in the Philippines is at least four times larger than the ones here in
Singapore. Even schools here like I saw in the primary school and probably
grade school is smaller and compressed.
Anyway
Sembawang and Yishu area in Singapore is a province, but for a province it is well develop and
urbanized compared to the one's in the Philippines. The whole area looked more
like "The Fort" or Makati area in the Philippines , full of tall
buildings and condominium type of housing, and shops that don’t actually looked
like shops at first look.
In their
metropolis area , comes the fun part. Their malls are bigger , such example is
the Vivo city mall which I explored , based on its size - it about as close as
the size of SM Mega Mall perhaps even bigger. There is also even an underground
mall on subways here due to the lack of space and in one instance I found
myself litterary lost in the labyrinth
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| Singaporean dollar, local currency used in singapore |
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| my co-workers |
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| the well known and iconic singaporean merlion, saw it by my own eyes |
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| local water fountain set up, took the opportunity to refill water stock pile i have |
