Posted
on August 9, 2015
Same
old, same old, right? Celebrating a patriotic holiday with parades
and fireworks and speeches...Yawn!
Actually,
I almost never find parades and fireworks boring – and certainly
not Singapore's gorgeous displays!
The
Republic of Singapore is a modern city-state that is celebrating its
1965 independence from Malaysia.
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| Singapore is a city-state located at the southern tip of Malaysia. |
Singapore
is one of the world's busiest trade centers and port cities. It is
also one of the richest nations in the world, and it has some of the
best rankings in healthcare, education, and standard of living.
Check
out these cool landmarks in Singapore:
Gardens
by the Bay is a park in Singapore; it is built on reclaimed land. Its
development is part of a plan to change Singapore from a “Garden
City” to a “City in a Garden.”
Singapore
has all the sorts of things modern cities have to lure visitors,
including zoos, botanic gardens, an oceanarium called Underwater
World (pictured here), and even Universal Studios.
Sentosa
is a popular island resorts that features a sheltered beach, two gold
courses, 14 hotels, and a theme park. (The name of the island used to
be Malay for “Island of Death from Behind.” The name Sentosa
means “Peace and Tranquility.”)
At
the top of Southeast Asia's tallest hotel, the 72nd floor,
the floor actually tips downwards 20 degrees so you can see out of
the gigantic windows.
That's...um...horrible!!!
The
Esplanade Theaters look a bit like fly eyes!
Here
are some interesting things about Singapore:
At
the National University of Singapore, there is a “Hug Me”
Coca-cola machine.
There
are ad-campaigns for everything: Be Courteous, Speak English, Speak
Mandarin, Stop Prattling, Say “Please,” Save Water, Stop
Littering, Be Kind, Don't Spit, Wash Your Hands, and many, many, many
more!
Even
a Campaign Against Long Unkempt Hair Among Males!
There
is a street (Haji Lane) that has one of the best collections of
street art in the world. Plus lots of cute little boutiques and
shops.
One
of the nicknames of Singapore is the “Little Red Dot,” because
it's hard to show the nation's location on a world map, and once a
mapmaker used a red dot to show where it is, it turned into a cute
nickname.
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| In the map of Southeast Asia, Singapore looks like a red dot. |
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