TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

3:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

'Welcome to the world's largest open air sauna', said Nigel when I arrived. Yes, free steam.

Other than that, it's the land of a thousand shopping malls and a hundred thousand high rises, with all the lush foliage in between manicured to within an inch of its life. You could say it's calm and relaxed.

Desperately looking for some Singapore punks.

My roomate Momoyo is gorgeous, funny smart Japanese performance artist who lives in New York. We're both finding it a little strange to be going back to school every day, I can feel some long evenings with mai tai and singapore slings coming on. And at last I have a real bed. Queen size, although my feet do stick out a little over the end. Still, it's a small price to pay. As is having to keep the air con at 24 degrees so it's cool enough to sleep. And 30 min train ride to get anywhere. Ah well, all the artists are in the same building, and the same boat. I miss my little red jopo bicycle!!

Went to check out the Bugis Street shops yesterday, as I read that they are one of the few places with old style shops in single buildings, ie not high rise mall. But it's all a covered over market, like paddy's in sydney, with blaring music and flashing lights and cheap tat. Joined in the local culture and immersed myself in department store windows and trashy movie.

Although it feels like I have strayed into some strange social engineering experiment. Going to type up my notes from 3 meetings on my first 2 days here - spaced out and jetlagged, no idea how I could string a sentence together, much less discuss cutting edge technology and high concept art projects with head of the media arts and electrical engineering departments - then once that's done, am allowed out to play, and go in search of punks.