we went to little india this morning. it was a good bit cheaper than the places we went to yesterday.
it was also.. dirtier? i mean, there was actually litter on the ground.
it was still a lot cleaner than most places i've seen.
we went in a shop and were looking at post cards, and the man in charge started to talk to us.. about where we were from and our astrological signs.. and then he asked us out to lunch. at first we said yes, but we ended up going back and telling him no. i think it probably would've been extremely awkward, but it might have been interesting.
most of the other shops we went into had an assortment of little figurines.. either made out of jade or made out of something that looked like jade.. carved into buddhas and turtles and elephants. we also found a lot of bangles and other types of jewelry as well as shawls.
there was a pretty large assortment of fresh food--their shops were either huddled together or spread amongst the other little businesses.
we also saw some animals. apparently some sort of festival was going on, so the animals were on display. one of the cows would not stop crying. it was really loud, and at first i thought it was a recording.
once we were pretty worn out from that world, we headed back to the hostel. we ate lunch and hung out for a while.. when we returned, all of our former roommates but one had left.. now the room is completely full again.. with what appears to be another group of all guys? kind of strange.
we took pictures of the hostel inside and out.. i'll put up a slide show here:
after we'd rested a good bit (several hours, actually), we went to chinatown.
they're getting ready for the new year, so everything was pretty crazy.
it might just be crazy in general, though. it was very busy and very colorful. once again, we found a large assortment of jade buddhas.. this time with dragons rather than elephants, though. we found a pretty amazing booth with sculpted stones.. sculpted into rather large ships. of course, there was a lot of red. there was also a ton of food. some nice dead poultry with heads attached.
i got a few pictures of the dead birds.
some booths were demonstrations--woks, hair tools (like a demonstration of how to do someone's hair with this little loopy piece of plastic)... others were just jam packed with things to buy.
it was waaay too overwhelming. there were people everywhere.. bright colors everywhere.. just too much, so we decided to leave.
we then headed to the flyer.. it looks a bit like a gigantic ferris wheel. i'm assuming when it's working it's not too, too different from one. sadly, as we got closer, a woman who was trying to help us told us it was not working, so instead we just went to marina bay.
i shouldn't say just. it was quite an adventure, and we could still see the flyer, but we just didn't get to take a ride on it.
we walked through the marina bay mall place thingy.
sort of.
we walked through maybe 1/4th of one floor of it. it's gigantic and rather confusing.
outside, we could see the fountain we wanted to go see, but we decided to stop for food first since it was already a bit late. we stopped at what looked like a bunch of little food stands, and we got chicken at "flava lava".
then we headed to the fountain. it looked pretty amazing at night.. as did all of the water with tons of different lights on it. we also got a pretty nice view of the flyer, so i got some pictures of that too.
after we took pictures at the fountain, we headed back here to find our room had filled up again, and then we sat down at the table to upload our pictures from the day.
i'll rotate the pictures hopefully tomorrow.. when i have more time..
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