My three favorite words to describe Singapore is Clean, Disciplined and Expensive. There are other words to say, but these three about sums it up. The first two descriptions can also be coined into one word: FINE. Most souvenir T-shirts read Singapore is a Fine City. It can be understood as nice, pleasant, attractive or of high quality, but to Singapore, it means penalty. Singapore does have a reputation of imposing high fines for disobeying rules and regulations. But this made the city a clean and safe society. You can roam the streets in the middle of the night and still feel safe, like no one will touch you. And the transport system is also very organized. Traffic there is like no traffic here in the Philippines. However, living in such a society does have a price to pay. Cost of living is expensive, about two to three times the cost here in the Philippines. Regardless, there are good shopping districts in Singapore, where merchandise are sold about the same price if converted to the peso (Bugis, Chinatown, Orchard). And for an island-city state, there are lots of tourist destinations in SG. Due to constraints of time, I was only able to visit Sentosa island, the zoo and Night Safari, and the Marine Bay. This is to favor more time for shopping, which is relatively more enjoyable at times than sight-seeing. LOL. I'm only sorry I wasn't able to try the reverse bungee. Maybe next time. Oh yeah, I also wasn't able to take a picture of the Sentosa bus (crap!).
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