Climbing, friends, and no gum!

My parents have friends from 20 years ago when they lived in Ottawa. We found out that these friends were doing a three month trip to Singapore at the same time that we would be there. We planned to meet up in the afternoon at a climbing gym.

In the morning, we went out to find Climb Asia. My mom had found climbing pants online that she really wanted to get for me, but couldn’t order online. It was a lot harder to find the store than we thought it would be. We got off the metro and walked a bit before we got to the street it was on. Google maps was telling us to go in an entrance in a building that didn’t really look like the entrance. Then, we walked around a bit looking for the store and finally asked someone where it was. He pointed to a building and told us to go to the fifth floor. On the fifth floor, it looked like an office building, but we went through a door and got to an open area with lots of garage’ish looking places on the side. At the very end of the area, we finally found Climb Asia and got the climbing pants. Climb Asia had a lot of really cool climbing gear, including fuzzy, animal chalk bags, but they were really expensive.

After going home for lunch, we took the metro to the climbing gym where we met up with Andrea, Marshall and Alex. Me and Neve climbed with Marshall and Alex while my mom talked to Andrea, who she hadn’t seen in 13 years. They talked a lot!

We climbed for about an hour and a half and then went to Marshall and Alex’s apartment for dinner. We got to swim in the pool and had pancakes with real maple syrup for dinner. It’s really hard to find maple syrup in this part of the world, and me and Neve haven’t had it since we left Yellowknife. It was so good!

In Singapore, there are some really crazy laws. Most of them aren’t enforced, but it’s still crazy that they exist. Some of the laws are:

-No annoying people while they are in the shower - 1,000$ fine
-If you don’t flush the toilet after you go to the bathroom, you could get fined up to 500$
-Connecting to someone else’s wifi could get you 3 years in jail
-You could go to jail for two years for being gay
-No annoying people with a musical instrument
-No singing in public, you could get 3 months in jail
-No flying a kite that interferes with public traffic
-No feeding pigeons, 500$ fine
- Jaywalking can get you 3 months in jail

En Singapore, il y a des lois qui sont très étranges. Par exemple:

-C’est illégal de déranger quelqu’un qui prends un douche
-Tu ne peux pas nourrir les pigeons
-Tu ne peux pas chanter en publique
-Tu ne peux pas déranger quelqu’un avec un instrument musicale
-Tu peux aller en prison pour 2 ans pour être homosexuel
-Tu ne peux pas connecter au wi-fi de quelqu'un d’autre
-C’est illégal de macher, vendre ou acheter de la gomme

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