Singapore Lite

I'm in the State Library of New South Wales waiting for my camera's battery to recharge.

Got in from Singapore yesterday. Man it's HOT over there - I know now why white people didn't settle there despite colonizing it. But it's an awesome place, a place that's ultra-modern in many ways but still retaining some Third World aspects, a place where you'll see an Indian woman in a sari next to a next a Malay woman in a hijab next to a Chinese girl in a miniskirt. The confluence of different cultures gives it an interesting dynamic. For a guy that's lived in comfy, quiet, neutered Canada effectively all his life, the sights, the sounds, the equatorial heat, the lack of reassuring white faces can all be overwhelming.

I'm in Sydney now and it's kinda like Toronto with tropical trees and it's a lot busier. The weather is much like Toronto when I'd left it last week... They call this winter. More thoughts later.