Singapore Airshow 2012

I realize there is no word "airshow" but that's how the organizers stylize it. I've been slow to post pictures from this trip and I'm sorry about that.  The photos I have below are mostly of a certain chalet/pavilion.  Most of the pictures from inside the exhibit and other chalets do not belong to me, therefore I'm not going to post them without proper permission.  I have a couple other series of photos I'll work on putting together.

Singapore Day 1: What a View!

I had dinner at the top of the Marina Bay Sands hotel. Check out the awesome view and delicious food!

Singapore Day 0/1: Chinatown [UPDATED]

UPDATE: I added the YouTube version of the video. It should be in a higher resolution.

Below are the pictures I snapped when I went to Chinatown.  I also have included a video clip of some TV show or film that was being shot later in the week [Scroll to the bottom].  It was of a purse snatching scene...they did a couple takes when I was there.  I'm not sure if they had other scenes planned but I headed out after watching them a couple of times.

Sorry for the low quality on the video, Blogger limits the resolution I guess. I'll have to upload to YouTube and link later.

Singapore Day 0/1: Stay Awake

I had heard Singapore was hot and humid year-round and they were right. I got on a plane where I needed a jacket and got off where I should have been in shorts and a T-shirt.  The tropical weather was nice in February though...

My accommodations in Singapore were at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore. I've posted a hotel room walkthrough down below:

I got to the hotel room that night and tried to sleep. I had said I would be going out to work around 10am that same day...so...I got about 4-5 hours of sleep due to me arriving around 4am to the hotel.  When the sun rose and I had some free time later that same day, I snapped some pictures of the gorgeous view from my room:

The next couple of days blended together due to my jet lag.  To stay awake, I went with my colleague to the Chinatown area to do some shopping and to keep our bodies moving.  We took the public subway system, dubbed the MRT.  I liken it to the subway system in Seoul, Korea...very clean, efficient, and timely :)

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Singapore Day 0: Up in the Air

I just returned from Singapore! It took forever to get there but was well worth it in the end. Total time I was in transit was over 24 hours but...such is life. Here are some pictures to kick off this series of posts:

United Lounge

View out into the lounge

VoD system

A look down the aisle...

Side compartments on the upper deck

VoD system

Another look down the aisle

Two planes and many hours later I arrived in Singapore. The overall flight experience was pretty uneventful except for a delay on the connecting flight due to something with the fuel gauges. I was willing to wait to make sure the fuel system was working properly.  This put us arriving even earlier (later?) in the morning...close to 3am :(

Next will be a post with my hotel room and initial impressions!

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Korea Day 13: Gyeongbokgung [Picture Heavy]

We decided to visit the palace on our last day in Seoul.  The weather was perfect...sunny, no clouds, pleasant temperature...

I'll try to caption some of the photos later.  Please remember to click "Read More" near the bottom to view further pictures, there were so many I inserted a break in the post.

There was a good number of student groups visiting as well.  We got there right as the guard was changing.  Oh and of course there were plenty of couples...they are EVERYWHERE!