{"id":298,"date":"2005-05-28T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T09:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2005-05-28T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T09:41:58","slug":"puttering_around_in_singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/puttering_around_in_singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Puttering around in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in previous post, this is probably my first (and last) unchaperoned time in Singapore.  Each previous trip, I&#8217;ve been taken around by someone local (which is great, dun get me wrong) and seen part of their lives as demonstrated by where they chose to take me.<br \/>\nThis time, I decided to let the MRT take me places. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/mrt.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/mrt.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/mrt-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI went to Geylang where Singapore&#8217;s unofficial red light district is.  Actually, it&#8217;s a pretty nice, historic looking red light district.  Didn&#8217;t take many pix because I didn&#8217;t want working girls hurling high heels in my direction. There IS some nice neon out there though.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/geylang.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/geylang.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/geylang-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter that, I chose to do a 180 and head out to Clarke Quay.  It&#8217;s one of the entertainment districts along the river.  There&#8217;s some neat looking restaurants and bars and coffee places.  Also a Hooters.  And all along the riverfront.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a river taxi too.  But not running at the late hour I was there at tonight. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rivertaxi.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rivertaxi.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rivertaxi-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> See?<br \/>\nOn the other end of the quay is appropriately, the new and old houses of the Singapore Parliment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/sgparliment.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/sgparliment.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/sgparliment-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Can you guess which one is which?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in previous post, this is probably my first (and last) unchaperoned time in Singapore. Each previous trip, I&#8217;ve been taken around by someone local (which is great, dun get me wrong) and seen part of their lives as demonstrated by where they chose to take me. This time, I decided to let &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/puttering_around_in_singapore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Puttering around in Singapore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-4O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}