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This weekend was actually the last complete one that I spend in Singapore – because the upcoming Friday is my last working day and afterwards I will do trips around. So I used this weekend to do all the stuff in Singapore, that I forgot or left out. I woke up quite late on Saturday, because I was at a barbecue with co-workers on Friday. This was a lot of fun although it was raining like hell – Maybe this was the reason, why we had so much fun.

The weather on Saturday was just marginally better – cloudy, but the rain died down. So I decided to head for MRT in order to get to Geylang district. After reaching at Paya Lebar station I walked back alongside the MRT tracks, cause I specced some nice temples rightby. A nice burmese-style Hindu temple right next to a chinese-style Buddha temple. Especially the Hindu temple is worth visiting – It was the only temple of this style I saw in Singapore. If you wanna visit them, go to Geylang East Av. 2.

Afterwards I walked down to Geylang road. The Geylang serai is one of the legal red-light districts in Singapore – But compared to red-light districts like in Amsterdam or Hamburg it seems more like a regular relaxed suburban street with traditional chinese two-storey houses… More interesting were the quite many Durian fruit stands along the road – You could smell it easily from blocks away! I proceeded walking down Haig Road until reaching Mountbatten Road in order to find some food. I finally got into some Malay restaurant ordering Laksa – Mostly because this restaurant had a long waiting queue. While walking along I saw this pretty funny “Have you been stoned?” ad of a stone-grill restaurant… Finally I walked back on Joo Chiat Road back to Geylang Road. This road is full of old chinese house which are nicely restored. When walking back to the MRT I dropped into the Geylang Serai market, which is full of excellent food-stalls, fruit and vegetable stands. So I got some Pisang Goreng (Malay style fried bananas) and some Mango pudding. At the market I also got a load of Mandarin oranges – very tiny ones and really really sweet. Right now they are sold everywhere – because they are a traditional give-away for Chinese New Year which is in 3 weeks of time. It seems like everybody around here is going crazy because of this – E