Friday, October 5, 2007

Singapore Tidbits

Here's a couple random tidbits:

The paper money in Singapore comes in different sizes for the denominations. I don't think I've seen that before. Here's a pic:
Amanda and I have a friend who goes by "Milo" online, so I had to pick up these:


There are just tons and tons of trees everywhere in Singapore, more so than any other large city I've been in. Some of the trees are really striking. I asked some local people about them, and apparently one of the old Prime Ministers had them brought in from overseas. I was told that when they're kids, Singaporeans learn all the names of the trees in the city. I think this one is called "flame of the forest" (maybe, my Singaporean colleagues were a little fuzzy on that ^__^ ). Here's a pic!

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