Singapore pt 3

Here's the view from the Hotel that our conference is in...  as its US$200+ a night I chose to search for more reasonable accommodations, but my former labmate managed to get a room on the 52nd floor.  quite good:

and here's a video:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o3kSYu3BtA

We snuck out of the conference yesterday afternoon and took the subway to several of the areas that were listed as tourist attractions - 'Little India' and 'Chinatown'...  hate to say it, but they weren't particularly impressive (maybe because I live in 'Chinatown'...).

  Little India...  not sure if you can see it, but there's a giant golden cobra or two in this store's display case.  Who exactly buys a giant golden cobra?

Its quite hot here... like ~32C, and it was quite sunny this day...

At night my former labmate and I headed over to the Esplanade, which is the performing arts center downtown near the conference hotel:

Its also known as 'The Durian' because it looks like two Durians halves... 

One half is a concert hall and the other half is a theater.

On the back side is the Singapore River. The waterfront view is not bad.

I think my casio would have taken this better... but not too bad, too bad i didn't have my tripod with me.

OK, time for bed, tomorrow i have to give my talk.  I just finished my slides. :-P