25 April 2025
Morchard
Orchard Road for Hong Kong food
Somehow I managed to get over 40,000 steps per day for each of the last 2 days, in the heat in Singapore. I think this would be a pretty rare thing to do, so there is photographic evidence below.
Because I had already walked very far today, this evening I just walked further up Orchard road and back. There is a lot to see, mostly far under ground or occasionally in a tube above ground.
I saw a lot of places to eat, all of them with a lot of people lined up, or with a lot of reserved tables with umbrellas left on them. A lot of things you need to do to order food and find a seat when you are alone are far easier in Japan than Singapore. Also it is hard to photograph your own watch on your wrist.
SECURITY ENFORCER ...securing effectively through ENFORCEMENT
Autonomous killbots are out to kill you in Singapore.
I thought I had better take an actual photo of me in Singapore, looking my best.
Now it was time for the tube viewing gallery. I thought it might be a gallery full of tubes, but no, it is a tube to look out of.
The view through the glass tube to the outside world was somewhat distorted.
A lot of the time in Singapore you can get a good contrast of the old and the new.
This is Ion Orchard, one of the flashier looking megamalls.
There are a lot of weird buildings with no guts. The goal of architects seems to be to waste as much space as possible with hollowed out useless bits covered in rotting plants and pink lights.
Here is my dinner, Hong Kong style bbq pork and wonton noodle combo. $7, quite nice.
The walk back was full of buskers, mildly annoying as they block the whole walking area.
Harvey Norman exists in Singapore, to minimize taxes. Which is amusing if you know the histrionics their billionaire owner goes on about in Australia. They also exist in Ireland. That's is all the evidence anyone needs.
And finally... the proof of 40k steps photo. I ended up taking my watch off to get a clear shot. I don't know how all those guys in the Rolex ads manage to get such clear shots of the watches on their own wrists!