017_yellow line

Recently Singapore has issued a new law to ban smoking in restaurants and eating places. You can only smoke in designated area, which is framed by a yellow box on the floor as shown in the picture. But I see at a lot of eating places, smoking tables are adjacent to non-smoking ones. Well, I really don’t think that the yellow box can trap the smoke in there.

016_free price

Now, this is damn cool. There is no regulation on controlling the price of drinks in Singapore. Different shops sell at different prices. Local manufacturers have come up with these super cool advertisement posters. All the shop owners need to do is to take a black marker and amend the number to the price they want to sell. But something is not right here. Isn’t base number supposed to be $8.88 in order to be able to amend? I think this shop owner blacked out the number to be $0.00 so that they can keep using the same posters and can even change the price whenever they want to. No confirmation in writing…

015_exotic fruit

Durian is one of the most popular fruits in Singapore. There are a lot of shops selling only durian and people go there just to sit down and eat a lot a lot of durian. There is one basic rule to learn here. Because of its distinctive smell, you can’t bring durian on public transportation. No bus, no MRT. You can only drive your own car or take a taxi. Sure the fruit is exotic, isn’t it?

014_interiorisation of urban space 02

This is an entrance to Chinatown subway station. Instead of making a small, pathetic looking glass box to weatherproof the escalator, they have made an effort to cover the entire open space there. Street lives are preserved and the two escalators become part of the space. But that planter could have been a bit better looking though…