Singapore Day 2
I wanted very much to post a picture of the Hindu temple but for can't seem to at the moment, don't know why.
I will do this at a later date.
Wednesday night ended early as I had been up for some time and fell asleep. Thursday morning I took a taxi to meet J. for lunch, and from there we ran a few errands before ending up at a park that is home to many colourful, though, crudish statuettes inspired by Chinese folklore and mythology. At one time, one had to pay to enter this park and there were even amusement park rides and so on, but these days it's free to walk around. The statues are many and some seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with China, for example the Statue of Liberty is represented. There is also a dark cave that is home to the 10 houses of Hell, and J. took great pleasure in asking, "Do you want to go to Hell?" Of course, I agreed. I have pictures of this also, although I warn you they are graphic. Each stage of Hell would have a statue of a stern looking judge and several torturers taking it out on humans who had transgressed in their lives. The transgressions were listed along side their "appropriate" punishments although the groupings seemed to be random. For small crimes such as lying to one's parents or avoiding the payment of taxes one could get away with simply being thrown upon the mountain of knives. For more severe crimes, one was liable to have their entrails pulled out, be bludgeoned with a hammer, or sawn in half width wise. If I recall, being sawn in half length-wise was a punishment seen more fit for crimes of the most heinous nature. All of this, it seemed to me, begged the question, what is the punishment for issuing excessive punishments? To this, I received no answer.
That evening we went out to a Brazilian restaurant and had quite a feast. I'll continue this story later.
I will do this at a later date.
Wednesday night ended early as I had been up for some time and fell asleep. Thursday morning I took a taxi to meet J. for lunch, and from there we ran a few errands before ending up at a park that is home to many colourful, though, crudish statuettes inspired by Chinese folklore and mythology. At one time, one had to pay to enter this park and there were even amusement park rides and so on, but these days it's free to walk around. The statues are many and some seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with China, for example the Statue of Liberty is represented. There is also a dark cave that is home to the 10 houses of Hell, and J. took great pleasure in asking, "Do you want to go to Hell?" Of course, I agreed. I have pictures of this also, although I warn you they are graphic. Each stage of Hell would have a statue of a stern looking judge and several torturers taking it out on humans who had transgressed in their lives. The transgressions were listed along side their "appropriate" punishments although the groupings seemed to be random. For small crimes such as lying to one's parents or avoiding the payment of taxes one could get away with simply being thrown upon the mountain of knives. For more severe crimes, one was liable to have their entrails pulled out, be bludgeoned with a hammer, or sawn in half width wise. If I recall, being sawn in half length-wise was a punishment seen more fit for crimes of the most heinous nature. All of this, it seemed to me, begged the question, what is the punishment for issuing excessive punishments? To this, I received no answer.
That evening we went out to a Brazilian restaurant and had quite a feast. I'll continue this story later.
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