May 25-26, 2010: Tuesday & Wednesday
After an uncomfortable, extremely freezing bus ride of goosebumps upon goosebumps for 9 hours, we arrive in Singapore around 6AM. Our passports get stamped and we're back on the bus en route to our hotel. I am hating the thought of ever boarding a bus again, let me tell you . . .
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Being in Singapore feels like I am walking in a metropolitan American city. There are people jogging, walking pets, clean streets, big flashy buildings with all sorts of kaleidoscope lights, lights shows and big malls and consumerism and foreigners and Starbucks and coffee shops and California Pizza Kitchens lining the streets. It is a hungry city. I miss Malaysia. I miss KL. I miss heritage. I miss culture. I'm feeling emotional and impatient and still feel that I've hardly had a moment to digest the events of the Conference. We plan to do a little but of sightseeing tomorrow, and I book a flight back to KL for Thursday. My parents leave for the States on Thursday night, inshaAllah. No more buses for me. No more moving around every other day. No more being a tourist. I'm looking forward to some down time in KL, and seeing my WIEF friends, inshaAllah!
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We hop on to the "Hop on Hop off" sightseeing bus and make our first stop at the National Art Gallery, which my friend in KL had recommended to me. Good thing because it leaves me truly inspired; I am totally taken by the "Realism Series." It's a series of paintings on everyday life - my favorite subject. There are paintings of rural landscapes, workers, war, social injustices . . . the detail, the colors, the expressions, the emotions - they're all incredibly moving . . . depicting "hopes and dreams for a better life for the common man," how beautiful.
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We stopped at Mustafa Center . . .
Masjid Sultan Singapura . . .
North Indian restaurant for lunch (Butter Chicken & Mango Lassi!)
Take pics around town . . .
Then back to the hotel . . .
and tomorrow, KL! :)
