It's a rainy Sunday afternoon. Here's a shot from the apartment window. Yep, I'm right above the street. Fortunately, the necessary continuous drone of air conditioning drowns out the traffic sounds. Turn off the air conditioning while away for a day, and the scent of mildew can knock you down upon your return. This must have strenghtened allergies/sinuses, because I've had no trouble at all with that, oddly enough. 

Because of the shoppers along Orchard Road, street performances are not in short supply. I wonder if they have to get a permit! This one was different in that the performer looked to be about 4 years old. His dad would play music on a boom box and the boy would drum along, hi hat, bass beat, rhythm, the whole deal. 

These throngs of people are not going to a big event or festival. They are just Saturday afternoon shoppers along Singapore's biggest shopping boulevard, Orchard Road.  

Post bike ride grime. Of course it doesn't look nearly as bad in the photo as it did in real life....normally I have no problem with getting a little dirty. Problem was that the mud we went through would have made sewage smell good. 

A beautiful site...a man in the kitchen in a skirt! 

This young girl was squatting in typical Asian fasion along the side of the bike path. Sometimes she would have her chin resting in her hand, looking as though she were contemplating the universe.

A more detailed snapshot of the top of the Hindu temple.  

Here is a shot of a beautifully intricate Hindu temple near the apartment. The doors are rarely closed on the building, but they were here, maybe just for this photo. 

Along East Coast Park, there are lots of signs, about what is and isn't advised to do. There were other more detailed signs warning people that the beach could be dangerous during lightning storms, and that high winds can bring coconuts down on heads.

The Chinese meal continued....here you can see the fish entree that Soren got. I tend to prefer eating fish after they have been cleaned and filleted, but this wastes precious eating time in a hungry Chinese kitchen! 

Matt and I enjoyed an approximate 6 hour bike ride yesterday. We started from the bottom of Orchard Road, went beyond the Raffles complexes, crossed two rivers, and zig-zagged through traffic to the East Coast Parkway, an approximate 13 mile stretch of bike, jog, and skate pathways. The bottom of the parkway, this stretch here, is reached after riding over a pedestrian overpass (no bikes or skating allowed on the bridge...which we prompty disobeyed). It dead-ended into a construction site. We tried to make a short cut around the construction site to get to the parallel road, but that road is a highway with no access for bikers and skateboarders. We had to short cut our shortcut and return the way we came to cross over the highway and start our 90 minute ride back to the apartment. This is where we got a little muddy. 

The remains of a fast-devoured street stall meal in Chinatown. The banana leaf is a nice touch, but a little redundant on top of a plate. Matt and I brought Soren, a Dane, for his first Chinatown meal. He has since returned many times. 

These two trees intertwinted with eachother. I haven't seen anything like this before. Maybe a symbiotic relationship? 

This leopard was just moving too fast for me to capture his spots, even for a digital camera! 

Freshwater stingrays. Who knew?