Joanna's Singapore adventures

I saw this at a mobile phone store which gave people a choice between normal mobile phone numbers and lucky mobile phone numbers. I am still trying to work out what precisely makes the numbers lucky. I was of the understanding that Chinese influenced cultures tend to consider the number 4 (sì in Mandarin Chinese) unlucky because it sounds like the word for die (sǐ). Most of these have 4 in them though. Hmmm

Apparently Singapore is so special that it gets its own special formulations of laundry detergent. I'm not sure what is so special about Singaporean clothes. Maybe the detergent is especially good at getting sweat stains out of your clothes?

This was stuck to the side of a construction site. I think ether some construction workers have had too much time on their hands or there is some important hidden meaning to this I have missed.

Coming from somewhere where it doesn't rain nearly enough, it is a bit of a novelty that it actually rains here. Even more of a novelty is that you can buy umbrellas out of a vending machine.

I couldn't resist posting another photo of a member of the local feline population. This one was asleep on an otherwise unoccupied table at a market. I got a shock when i first saw it because it looks very much like one of my cats. I think the stallholders may have thought I was crazy for snapping photos of the cat.