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Singapore - Night safari, Scuba gear, and the lost iPhone!

Singapore!
I dont know why but I was super excited to spend a couple days in Singapore.
Maybe because I thought it would be a nice break from south east asia and live the western life for a little bit.
Everything is super clean and really well kept. 
I really liked all the different buildings that they had there too.


The pace of Singapore is so much faster than every other country as well. which I loved because although slowing down to local pace in other countries sometimes can be nice but other times I felt like a was moving like a snail.





Their streets were really interesting as well. Also many of the street names were interesting unlike the random names that we have back home.





They also had some interesting benches around too:














I didnt take too many pictures of me in front of cool buildings cause i was by myself and didnt really feel like asking people. Plus i have huge stop over in Singapore in about a month so ill take some then.



These 4 buildings obviously came as a set:





I just walked around for most of my 2 days that i was there cause all the fancy arts and shows were pretty expensive. I did but some snorkel gear though. I ended up spending $200 Singapore dollars which is about $150 and got mask, snorkel, fins, boots, and other little accessories which i think is a pretty good deal considering they were all good quality stuff. 

The other thing that i did in Singapore was go to the Night Safari!

There was a fire show at the entrance



I walked around for it bit before sitting down for some overpriced dinner at Z'bar



They had a really cool mangrove walk where there was fruit bats and flying foxes and all sorts of other things that you could walk through the cage with.


I saw all sorts of new animals that i didnt know existed.
like the Indian spotted mouse deer.


Then i took the tram and saw some of the other more famous animals like lions and elephants and giraffes


I got the shuttle back to the city and got dropped off at the marina which is amazing at night. everything is lit up and looks great.



I was walking across the bride as you see below and i notice a rectangular object just sitting there all by its lone self.


I turned it over and it turns out to be an iPhone 4 (or 4s im not sure there was a case).
I never know what to do in this situation especially on the other side of the world. 
So i just sat down beside and and though i would hang out for it bit and maybe the owner would come back looking for it. I didnt want some other less honest person to come by and swipe it and i had nothing better to do. After a while i thought maybe i can call someone and they can come get it. Since it had a passcode i had to use voice control and guess some names that might be in the contact list ("mom" "sister" "home"). home ended up working and i was trying to explain to the lady on the other end of the line that i had this persons phone but she just kept saying that i had the wrong number. then his girlfriend ended up calling me on the other line so she said that he was coming and he was wearing a red shit. So i waited there and eventually he came running over with his iPad. He ended up shaking my hand like a million times and saying thank you a bunch more times. then he said "i feel like i should take you out for dinner or something" so i was like "you dont have to do that" really hoping that he would because that tiny dinner that i got at z bar was not filling at all. but then he lead the conversation back to thanking me and then we parted ways.
so i walked back to my hostel and filled myself up on some chicken rice before going to bed


For more photos check the album on the left! 
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