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Chinese Hell (and other horrible oddities)

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When I told Jane at breakfast we were going to an amusement park, I sincerely believed that to be the case. That’s how this place was described, an amusement park for Chinese history and myths. The pictures were colorful and reviews solid. The adventure unraveled from there.  Backing up to the beginning of the day, we left our hotel after trying more novel breakfast foods.  I may have had my fill of novel breakfast foods today.  Ready for departure In yesterday’s shopping, Jane found Singopirean hot styling tools for her hair.  She’s fixed it Charlie’s Angels style knowing the lift would unfortunately fall a bit in Singaporean humidity.  We delighted in this version of her look all day, even sweaty during her dance class. We started our day in Singapore’s crispy clean subway systems. Our local station has a vague but pleasant vanilla perfume, absent of the usual stench of marijuana and body odor found nearly everywhere in European and American subways. We apprec...

Donkey-Induced Anguish

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What we learned early on yesterday was that batteries are a rare and expensive commodity in Singapore. The entirely helpful concierge team, who approach you unsolicited if you look the slightest bit confused, snickered slightly when I mention our battery search troubles. She made another suggestion we will follow through with today, but I was hesitant to purchase the only batteries I saw ($38 for 4) yesterday. Because of this, I’m still typing without a keyboard so I apologize for the many autocorrect and Beth-induced typos.  Our hotel is located in a district called Marina Bay, a dense development of high rises. From the street, the district looks like a sparsely populated work community. Lots of buildings and streetscapes like this: We set out on foot in this office building jungle yesterday morning to buy batteries and replace our forgotten items. Perplexed at how to cross a street, as there were no crosswalks and jaywalking is highly illegal here, we discovered a tiny non-descr...