- It seemed easier to take a night train -but it was 3 hours late; 14 hours instead of the 5 by bus so if I had slept at home and then got up and taken a bus I would have arrived at the same time.
- Also the internet said the train was full, but actually there were beds and seats.
- 8pm left house to Kajang by bus, 10.20pm train arrived 35 minutes late already.
- 8.15am woke up still before JB, when actually we should have already finished. 9am arrive at Malaysian Customs, stuck 1 hour at Singapore customs, 11.15am arrive- 3 hours late. I would guess Singapore authorities are deliberately trying to make the train inconvenient; next time I'll get off at JB and switch to the local bus.

Now there is TimeOut in Singapore TO Sg
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lookout for a Singapore film called My Magic a Cannes nomination

- Cats of the world photo exhibition @ The Art House

- popped around the corner to the Oldest Chinese temple, which used to be on the beachfront, but no sign of that now

- Peranakan Museum - I didn't like it

- One of the first things the museum points out is that Peranakan is really 3 different groups
The word describes people who are from families where a foreign man marries a local woman - so you have 3 types anyway
- 1. Baba Peranakan Chinese (Baba Nonyas) - Vast majority of Peranakan, they have Malay culture but are usually non-Muslim being ancestor worshippers or some converted to Christianity.
- 2. Jawi Peranakan (Indian Muslim)
- 3. Chitty Melaka Peranakan (Indian Hindu)

For hundreds of years they formed distinct minority racial groups, though these days they are becoming mongrels like the rest of us. For Baba : In Singapore they are counted as Chinese and in Malaysia there is pressure for them to become Malay.

- Went to the NUS Museum - There was no history section so to me it was a boring art gallery.
- I walked along the Ridge to the War Museum called Reflections at Bukit Chandu

Then walked down and took the bus to Vivo Mall where I took the rooftop monorail to Sentosa Island - Amazingly there is even more development on the landward side a huge area is being made into a resort.. a quick walk around and then I came into town

..walking to the ACM museum, Art House, and then upto the public library to look at it's exhibitions.