National image (the impression of Singapore)

One characteristic of a field, and then puts the pluralistic national and its multiple also became a characteristic, such as the United States.

Singapore to heyday to become a State Erzhi, region of small but sure doesn't make ze, even some spacious Shu lang feeling, this is not my imagination. Little Singapore also quite a display magnificent side: off the map at Fort Canning Park Mountain Lake, although there are no mountains, but it took me almost two days to go around it in a circle, not too small: forget some of the early evening, the Presidential Palace to a friend, asked me not to look at, especially referring to the inside of the large lawn. But in my hanging a leak 100 ("million" is a bit too exaggerated) perception that little island in the South East Coast, Singapore's planners is deliberately, to produce a wide.

Singapore to commemorate landmark

Words, lunar new year's day in the afternoon, I go to Anderson bridgehead of Fullerton (FULLERTON HOTEL) at the entrance, looking down at the map to find a must-see merlion Park.

Ears to hear a sound "big sister", a 30-year-old lady standing in front of me: "you are from China, I see you looking at the map, you are a person to play the? did you go?" her Mandarin is very good, no so-called RTHK, thought is also a person out of travel. See me puzzled, she explained that it is working here, Qingdao, came over a month, today started this holiday, stay in the dormitory all right, come out.

Although she was more than a month, but every day to work in a coffee shop, or you do not find their way, you have to go with me.

Merlion Park also haven't exactly all the way to travel with. Fullerton doorway through the coastal Park channel, the next step is the glance of the merlion Park and just on the big durian, Haibo flat wave static, is a good place to photograph, I stay in Singapore a rare few soul, in the typical local, thanks to a lucky person. Facing the sea, the old Qingdao woman brought out the album in the bag, I see her son and husband, son of photos already ten years old, she has to pay enough for old-age insurance, out to work just to earn some money, I didn't expect to catch up with the financial crisis, said to her and then later, each month you can only get $ 600. "Homesick, the starts crying, much better now. ”

At the landing stage, she called to her husband as Qingdao phone to her husband put mailboxes send text messages to cell phones, so I will upload the photos to Qingdao for loved ones and see her.

Returns the Fullerton door, have two in the afternoon, I asked her to the next step is going to go, she said to go back to bed, it is still early to go with me.

Then we return by Anderson bridge, Hebei right hand is open Park, off the map, it should be is including the forest to Sheng Tower, war dead monument, Chen's the sound of the fountain, West Greenland separates leisure channel, is more a piece of Green-Singapore National Day festivities held in Padang, netizens say this word comes from the Malay language, means "big lawn"! this two piece of green areas further north through Stanford road is Monument Park.

Forest to Sheng and Chen sound is two respectable Chinese, I will meet with them, and "war dead monument" to now I still confused.

Most of the Internet that commemorate the first world war, second world war to Singapore at the expense of martyrs, but obviously beizuo on the 1914-1918, and boarded the monument of each stage side also start from the first tier separately marked 1914, 1915 ... This is not the time of the first world war, first world war there were Singapore thing? I really do not know, back in four languages: deny himself to the public.

Along the way, photography, across the Road West Lawn is the Church of St. Andrew 's, new friend says she believes in, last night was in the Church, "Christianity is quite good, and you believe it.

"This has a husband and children, in Qingdao has two House woman told me. I helped her to the Church in the background as a picture, backlighting, human face black, but quite clearly on the back of the Church.

A shower here (this is my only encountered in Singapore a rain, only less than two minutes), there is a bus stop at the edge, we stood in the past from the rain, I'm going to further north, she'll go back to the quarters of Chinatown, the break up.

In order to thank me, she said: thanks to follow you, I do not know these. Sometimes tourists also really know some more than local, not to mention she in fact did not come soon. I continued to the North.

The commemorative Monument Park is "people who were killed during Japan's occupation of the monument to the" this is the monument of the text, but on the tourist map with "Japanese occupation martyr who monument", I think the latter to neutral position the fades.

Four simple post form a square from the bottom up to tighten up the Middle, there is only one small space, the walls are in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil (this is also a feature of Singapore, even dangerous tips on site are four languages): read the record of the tree, causing the tablet in the goodworld slope of Bristol's business meeting of the erstwhile 導, photocopy of the commitments of the Government, and with 贊 people donate gifts 鉅 information before grams. The tablet on February 15, 1967, and Cheng-Cheng Li-bow's begun mortgage tablet, type table secluded House. The middle is symbolic of ashes on the altar, Base: 15 February 1942 to 1945, August 18, may presently proposed military occupied the eastern slope, I kill civilian radio-Koo is their digital is not counting the more 20 Accordingly, in the remaining years before receiving 殮 genetic bone weight and was buried in this, and the stone wing tree abundant weakness of grief. Text is not very pretty, not alone the typography, but demonstrate the country's attitude.

If Chinatown, little India, colonial buildings such as the historical legacy, is the main selling Singapore Tourism, and is located in the movie on the lawn of various flag State will, together with the buildings East of the merlion (that is the symbol of Singapore), and across the sea of the Esplanade (also is Singapore's next generation of pride), when is the Singapore Government for inclusion in the world of the modern State of national image, the image works.

Singapore's flats

In addition to bringing together so many countries will image

Engineering, Singapore another impressive image project is sound. Initial reference to the other's tour of the new line, tours have visited flats, say to friends, friends reply said: sounds stupid. After arrival in the new live in a friend's House in flats, understand what she said is yet to get some sound can only surface impressions mean, really understand the flats or living in them.

They say that Singapore will be less crowded, not rural is an urban development plan for developing countries, has been holding development center outside the city, the local residential area called "towns".

For example a friend lived in Yishun. The original Yishun is a small village, local leaders of character named Lim Nee soon, in a public square and his statue, was later moved away, as if his tomb has also in the vicinity.

Now there is no point in Yishun village feel, the middle section of the road, a true path, interspersed with naming are numbered, the bus is also a center of transitions station external connection, internal expert regional transportation network.

Conversion station nearby, Metro, shopping centres, banks, and so on, like it was the center of the city. This set of system reminds me of the square of the Zhou dynasty, the so-called diameter, regardless, transit, road, with pipe-narrow dimensions.

Yishun of flats is not built in a day, from the appearance could see the old and new, number, from more than 300 until 900, is not to say that there are so many buildings, certainly is to distinguish small community, such as the present tiantongyuan phase I, phase II, the 1950s baiwanzhuang Jia district, b zone, and so on.

The so-called flats are many buildings, they don't know how to play such a name, it is said that Singapore has a dedicated government departments to Canal flats building to achieve ownership housing ideals, expanding from the community, the realization of this ideal was to continue the struggle.

Who first arrived in Singapore, a rental car to the region's downstairs, frankly, quite easily confused, are building next floor, Gallery corridor.

From the station began with top of the Gallery until the downstairs, flats on the first floor is almost empty, pillars, stone table and stool, the newspaper box, some old activities rooms or shop, snack bar, Bank, etc, this is not a heritage from the South of the traditional folk houses on stilts cool? friend brought me from a building of the Gallery, turned to another building of the Gallery, but I have always walked will go to the Gallery, then discovered the benefits of the corridor: head no shelter will have air conditioning, water falls into the body.

In fact, the first floor of the space is useful, for example, next stop, an application to the Commission may, in accordance with their own households are ethnic customs handling all mourn before the cremation and ritual activities.

Malay weddings often on the first floor and on the surrounding scene around La, this person in the community and India Club, Chinese restaurants do different. Though the number of sound, but also a lot of open space, grass and trees, not like Beijing community was full stop is the private car, some of those lawn sports facilities, recreational facilities, you can also apply to the Board to hold a party barbecue activities.

Old flats, layers are as big as the southern school corridor, every door to the corridor, but only two or three layers of elevator stop, buy stop elevator floor in a house where certainly convenient, but will consider other layers were down elevator too from the door after, if you want to buy something, you should choose not to stop the elevator floor, harder to climb the stairs.

I said really save, but my friends think I stood talking not pain, it is said that households now have strong views, new flats are starting at every level, but do not know that there are no reserved large corridor.

From Singapore Yishun may want to see the entire room hdb flat face, or those lines in the tour of flats, cars load tourists, in a town in the round, with heart, a different color of flats with full of different levels of green plants, but also very beautiful.

If the car some running farther, get rid of flats, apartments and villas, design is more diverse, and nature medicine more Fusion, very resistant, is Singapore wide rootball.

Singapore subway and bus

A friend who lives in Yishun, Singapore Changi Airport location in the West, there is almost a bus direct to 858, not to the South to the North from the city to go around.

Garage 40 minutes, mostly in the light of the fast road Binney, no station, so the speed is slow. In "Yishun MRT station" that a station the bus, bus transfer, as friends in the region with no attention is the bus, but in a great conversion station. Home door, get off at swiping the card, as long as the original $ 0.31 swiping the card not only in Singapore, and converts the car in a short time and at a discount, to understand that these are not easy, my friend nor too clearly the specific principles, just follow the wash is, everything else to the Government and the machine. But she said that such as Beijing, put the card into the alongside the brushing machine can also be newly, the former are from one's mouth, another mouth spit out, slow and prone to stall.

To the students home, her enthusiasm, and a tea is cooking, the shidianduo.

This is expected to advance, so the subscription of three lines I choose first half days walk which looks like a very short article — "Western colonial buildings + Singapore River", off the map, the road to see more compact, especially, in a map, "Clarke Quay"-"between the Government House," says "two stations away from the twenty ten minutes walking distance of the words", on the other hand their own comprehensive drawing maps and clear on its own feet, judgment this line half day should be completed and especially the friend said there is dark at 7 o'clock.

A friend lent me a transportation card, take me away a near Road directly to the subway station, walk a few steps, but no longer do bus, more convenient and economical, in the subway station has taught me a self-service machine for card recharge and query both to use the home, the next step depends on my own.

This eliminates the need to transfer from Yishun (YISHUN) sit on the red line-South (NS), 11 station to arrive at the beauty of Vancouver (DHOBY GHAUT). Beginning of Metro is on the ground, but also look atThe scenery, after about bishan (BISHAN) into the ground.

When the beauty of Vancouver station that, frankly, direction than Paris Metro good, my strategy on out of A mouth, but out of the door looked at four, not under the direct export of signs, not dare to ask people to action.

Service personnel only a Malay or Indian, Chinese do not know, but something to read with A hand refers to the direction. I am not confident that asked a non-service personnel, she like Chinese, and sure enough she understand my words, but are not familiar with the subway, and English and have the waiters for communication, and then OK to tell me A export orientation of the waiter said, and said that the first out of the gate (several times encountered such a situation, but are very willing to help, rather than simply say that I don't know). From this I know, no matter which of the Singapore Metro station, they have to the gate, just the opposite is the mark of the individual export.

Have had the experience of Paris, Metro is the most complete insurance because, according to the pictures will not be affected by the landmark impact (this must be confirmed in Singapore, I think maybe all over the world are so), so all the trips I have been to the Metro as traffic, as a modern city, Singapore Metro can be said to have nearly complete (but according to the plan also has a link to repair), a fully enough I use.

Do not know the people here, or equipment is good, since every subway station in addition to the toilet to queued, I haven't had a time machine to queue up the query.

In order to find a friend recommended a number of attractions, her husband found a big map to me, and I in airport take the Singapore travel guide is followed by a few pages of maps, it also is the bus stop sign and began to wonder, two compared several evenings.

Finally figure out: original Singapore for every bus stop are marked by number. How can this number is a series of? start thinking should each line on a set of numbers, like our Beijing bus, 1 stop, 2 station ... But this idea was rejected immediately: a station has many lines of the car dock, and the map of the station are mostly B01, B03 ... No number.

First discovered, such as Beijing street side of the building code, one side is the order number, on the other side is a double number.

Second, understand every street is starting from scratch, most of the road, Singapore is short, the city apart from Orchard Road, Victoria Road, longer. Alas, Singapore people seriously to give every station number, get it can't and don't know that if they like the same "GOU, Beijing, every new day, new developments and changes", you can do?

In fact, familiar Singapore bus transportation may never have to pay attention to this point, most of the travelers and do not have it, but I'm still quite proud of.

By bus is a bit of a problem, is the need to own a few station, Beijing auto station or ticket to one of the basic skills training, others are simply not Singapore bus stations. In addition, the number of stations is platform, each platform to meet the car on the road in the direction of the had the number, even if the wrong station nor too important because Singapore City station distance are very short.

In the suburbs and the residents of the communities, such as some stations Yishun chairs is oblique, and it is looking in the direction of car travel for passengers to the car, see one of the reasons is waved on the bus, if needed on the that nobody, nobody on the bus, the driver will not stop.

This is bad for the eyes of the people, the more trouble, but who says the Singapore train shapes and colors or differentiated, but newcomers to people or more tense. Get on the train you want to get off, and, to a yellow button, full of cars are: the Windows side, on the handrail.

For travelers who don't have to worry too much, in the city, station has the local people, but out of the city landmarks in less and less red light, the car less, a few stations also easier.

Perhaps Singapore bus is not primarily intended for the traveler, so willing to travel so require, the saying is not to say that the more savvy?: the more lazy, according to the Beijing Government just for the sake of train passengers, management would not be, and is more dependent.

(Forest to Sheng Tower)

(War dead monument)

(Chen sound fountain)

(Japan occupation period monument to the people killed)

(Spring Festival flats of Chinese people)