The Gnome at the Bottom of the Garden

We found this amazing piece of technology at the Science Centre in Singapore. I don’t really get how this works, but what I do know is this:
This “pond” is projected onto a screen from above. (You can see this when the arm passes over the screen - it is then projected onto his arm).
You don’t actually touch the screen, your shadow ”interacts” with the pond. So whatever you do with your shadow becomes part of the “movie” that is being projected. You can make ripples by “poking” at it. You can make a whirlpool by drawing a circle, and the fish will move out the way if you just move your hand slowly through the water or try to catch them. Cool!!

Weird or wonderful?

 Evil or heavenly? 

This Santa is made of 80kg of solid chocolate and is 120cm tall. It is very heavily guarded in a shopping mall in Marina Square. Never felt like licking Santa before…..

On Wednesday we took a ride on the Singapore Flyer (think London Eye but bigger). We had booked for a sunset ride and had arrived early because we had been warned about the large crowds.

There were no crowds and we had plenty of time to spare - so we went off to the Kenko spa  where some little Garra Rufa (Doctor Fish) ate the dead flesh off our feet.

The first few minutes raised an eleventybillion on my weirdness meter. From the second I put my feet in the water, hundreds of the little biters were attacking my feet. It felt like a really severe case of pins and needles. We had paid for 15 minutes and I was sure that I wouldn’t be able to last that long. I kept flicking the fish away - they didn’t hurt, I’m just really ticklish. Once I got used to it though, it was remarkably pleasant. We had been walking for about 6 hours and after just 15 minutes, I was ready to go again! Our feet felt refreshed and you could see where the fish had ripped shreds nibbled our feet. The man was so impressed he was trying to rearrange our schedule so that we could have another treatment!

Definitely a must do when you head to Singapore!

I figured that before I get onto the boring tourist type blog of my journey around Singapore, I would thrill you with some of the more bizarre things that I saw / did while there.

We were on our way home from Sentosa Island and we hadn’t eaten any real food since breakfast. We went to the food court in VivoCity (the biggest food court that I had ever seen. Even with all the food that was on offer, we eventually chickened out and ended up getting Burger King). Anyway, while doing the rounds of the food court, I came upon this classy establishment.

That’s right people - it says Pig’s Organ Soup.  I checked out the menu to see if it would give a clue as to which organ. They list such delights as

* Pigs Liver and Kidney Soup
* Pigs Stomach Soup
* Braised Pigs Trotter
* Pigs Ball Soup as well as
* Pig’s Organ Soup.

The pictures on the menu offer no hints as to which bit of the pig is in the soup. I’ll leave that to your imagination.

This post was especially for Magnetoboldtoo who seems to appreciate these type of things. I hope it cheered you up and made you wee just a bit…..