TANKS Travel Tales - a travelogue.......

I am late again for my regular Travel Bits series. ;-) After the unexpected travels in the months of April and May, June 2016 has been a month of working and working. Yup, no time for anything else except work, even over the weekends. But as I have mentioned before in several articles in this blog, traveling do not have to mean packing one's luggage and boarding a jetliner; moving around your neighbourhood or visiting the neighbouring town can be as much of a traveling experience as visiting another country. :-) Towards the end of the month of June, I had relatives visiting from Malaysia and they were staying at  the magnificent Fullerton Hotel located in the Central Business District (CBD) of Singapore. Visiting them at their hotel, I walked to the balcony of their hotel room and was rewarded with splendid views of the Singapore River and the CBD. Using my iPhone 6S Plus (which practically doubles as my convenience camera of choice), I took the following pictures....

This has been a crazy month at work for me. After my short holiday to Siem Reap last month, I have been working non-stop, seven days a week. And to cap it all up, some reshuffling of work schedules mean that I will have to correspondingly reschedule my planned trip to Hong Kong and Taipei next month! That's kind of disappointing but life always serve up its surprises; both pleasant and unpleasant and this is one of those unpleasant surprises. Taking a short break from my work (well, I still have a life outside of work!), I decided to treat myself to some nice chocolate buffet in town yesterday night which was a Saturday. I have not been out and about in town of late, especially in the nights and I was surprised by the sights and sounds. There are the usual night scenes in Singapore which never failed to amaze me even though I was born, live and work in Singapore. Not expecting the carnival-like atmosphere and the amazing sights that I was to encounter, the only cameras I h...