Singaporean food can be a bit overwhelming at first, especially if you find yourself in a crowded Hawker Centre affronted by a myriad of sights, smells, and sounds from different countries and cultures. I usually just eat at the different Canteens around NTU, but the number of choices available to you can be a bit […]
Exploring Little India
I decided to spend one Saturday wandering around Little India, and later returned with another exchange and two local students on one of our holidays because it’s such a vibrant and colorful place. It’s so jarring to see a busy pocket of India in such a globalized city. If you didn’t look up at the […]
Adapting to a Singaporean Way of Life
The first week of classes has passed and it was a whirlwind! The first two weeks of the semester at NTU is the add/drop period for classes, where everyone prays they receive an email at 11 PM announcing they won the lottery and are enrolled in their desired courses. The rest of us hope for […]
Arriving in Singapore & National Day
Greetings from the Little Red Dot! After a grueling 16 hour flight I arrived in Singapore at 6:15 AM this Tuesday feeling extremely jet-lagged and exhausted. The Singapore Changi Airport has consistently been rated as one of the world’s best, but it was such a blur I don’t remember much of it. I called a […]
The Journey Begins: Trip Expectations
While easy to pass over at first glance, there is more to Singapore than what first meets the eye. It is known as the Lion City (Derived from Singapura, singa and pura being Malay for lion and city, respectively), but there are no lions in Singapore and this tiny nation is like no other city. […]