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<\/a>in the Lonely Planet that the museum housed an outstanding Muslim exhibit.\u00a0 Since we’re leaving later this a.m. for Malaysia, a Muslim country, I thought I’d better “be prepared.”\u00a0 What I was unprepared for were the excellent explanations, so good that I bought the collection catalogue, something I’m loathe to do, because they’re heavy!<\/p>\nNext stop was Chinatown, for lunch (I think I need to take one of the food courts home!), including dumplings and red bean pancakes, and for wandering aimlessly.\u00a0 It’s a neat old colonial area with pastel buildings and overhangs to keep out the rain\/sun, and a wonderful assortment of Chinese New Year trinkets.\u00a0 I looked for a calendar, and they must be almost as obsolete as letters, but I did find one in a department store.<\/p>\n
The evening?\u00a0 I learned the Singapore Symphony was playing at the All that would have been needed to top off the evening was a visit to the Long Bar at the Raffles hotel for a Singapore Sling, but as one of my Scouts used to say,\u00a0 “I’ve already done that.”\u00a0 Two days ago.<\/p>\n Got to pack for the trip to Kuala Lumpur via Malacca.\u00a0 I understand that we will change buses at the border.<\/p>\n Talk to you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What can you do on a free day in Singapore, provided you’ve been here before and done the basics?\u00a0 Here’s what I did. The free day started Thursday night, with about half our group signing up for the “night safari.”\u00a0 While I recall some of my students had gone to it, I had been skeptical.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Leaving Singapore today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore-malaysia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Esplanade, a new venue on the harbor that looks like a durian fruit (the one that smells like hell, but tastes like heaven–fortunately, the Esplanade smelled pretty good) that’s relatively new and reputedly had great characteristics.\u00a0 The program was two Tchaikovsky pieces I had never heard of (does anyone not in a music appreciation class know that he wrote 3 piano concerti?\u00a0 We heard the second).\u00a0 The second piece was the Manfred Symphony–toward the end the organ entered.\u00a0 Aside from Saint Saen’s famous organ symphony, I’d not known of any similar combination before.<\/p>\n