I'm now working in the Marina Bay Financial Center, a new office complex built on landfill along with the Marina Bay Sands Casino, an absolutely crazy looking building that I've shown pictures of earlier. Three giant towers with what looks like a boat on top.
So I've been meaning to take a nice picture of the view from my building but it has been too humid to get a nice clear image. And then this week, the visibility got worse. Much much worse.
Seems we are downwind from the annual intentional forest fires in Indonesia. They don't always go right over Singapore, but when the wind is just right, lots of smoke in the air. It doesn't smell that bad but it does seem to gunk up the sinuses.
I think the winds are starting to shift again, though. Looking up you can see where the edge of the smoke cloud is. Not a storm cloud there, that is all smoke. Lets see... Malaysia is to the right, go to Kuala Lumpur, smoke!
It is the last month of the dry season in Indonesia, so I won't have to worry about the smoke too much longer. Until the next Chinese festival day, anyway.
Speaking of which, I should have done a post on the Festival of the Hungry Ghost:
http://www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/browse/whats-on/festivals-and-events/hungry-ghost-festival.html
If you come to Singapore and everyone is standing around drums filled with burning paper, you might get the wrong idea. But don't worry, they are just cutting out the middle man, skipping the malls, and straight up burning money.
(Fake money, of course.)
