Xmas Lights In Singapore - What You Should Notice

The corner of Orchard Road.

Again typical of Singapore, tropical countries, warm whether places to escape winter in Britain and North America, palm trees are there all year but at Christmas the lights all around at night turn the trees into silhouettes.

The curves end in circles. Very pleasing. I must remember that when making Italic signs when drawing on a whiteboard when teaching or training businesses or designing a poster.

In front of Isetan, the Japanese department store, whose name you can see in the centre of the photo left of the illuminated yellow light giant pillars on the curved front of the building. Typically of tropical Singapore, lots of greenery at ground level.

Driving from Tanglin. Rows of lights ahead of you recede into the distance, making a V shape.  Curves and stars are strung across the road.

A couple of years ago, everything worldwide went blue. Blue lights. White artificial Christmas trees in shops. In years to come you will be able to look back and date a photo of yourself taken by the Christmas lights.

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Favourite Singapore Restaurants: Fratini, Tanglin, Clubs and Gifts

The most personalised food and drink and service is supplied by Fratini. They should have a Michelin star. If they've got one, they should have two.

The dishes are a surprise. If you are visiting twice in a month, keep a note of what you ate and ask them for something different, or to repeat your favourite dish.

Here are my three current favourite restaurants:
1 Fratini
2 Tanglin Club Churchill Room
3 Tanglin Club Tavern

If you are not a member of a club, you need a member of a club to invite you as a guest. Ex-pats often do return invitations. Somebody invites you to lunch at a club. (They pay and the cost goes on their monthly bill.) The guest who wishes to reciprocate can do so or offer the host the choice of one of the following:
1 Return invitation to another club the following week.
2 Return invitation to a restaurant the following week.
3 After a leisurely lunch going on to high tea or drinks in a nearby hotel or restaurant.
4 Invitation to a swim and a lunch or dinner at guest's condo home in Singapore, or home in another country.
5 Offering cash towards the cost. (Either offering or insisting.)
6 Taking a gift. (The Chinese and Japanese expect gifts to be wrapped in wrapping paper and tied with ribbon - even chocolates or a piece of cake - and presented with both hands and a bow of the head and maybe body, bowing lower in some cases depending on the status and seniority of the recipient.)

Angela Lansbury, Singapore Resident.
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