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Fountain of Wealth

By jeni | August 18, 2008

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We did. We spent lots of time shopping for our upcoming trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia. Yayayay Cambodia! We are leaving on August 28 to stay for four days and explore the temples and try to avoid getting malaria. (Just kidding about the malaria mom and dad, don’t freak out). 

Anyway, I thought I had gotten close to seeing all of the shopping here in Singapore, but I guess I was mistaken. There is so much more. Much much more. It never ends. So today I went down to Suntec City Mall, which is enormous, and is also the home of the Singapore Convention Center and the Fountain of Wealth. What is the Fountain of Wealth you ask? Well, to start with, it’s the world’s largest fountain. I do think this is a tiny bit cooler than the world’s largest ball of twine, but probably not that much cooler.

It’s kind of a weird cloudy day today so the lighting is a bit off, but here are a couple of pictures of the fountain. It was turned off today, but as Wikipedia says, it’s often turned off so visitors can walk inside and touch the smaller fountain for luck. They say you stick your right hand in the fountain, silently make a wish, and then circle around three times. Well I wasn’t silent since I was narrating the stupid video which you can’t hear anyway since the water is so loud, but I still won’t tell you my wish because everyone knows if you tell someone a wish, it won’t come true.

So usually water would be spouting out of this big metal thing here:

But instead we just have this mini fountain going:

Here I am at the mini fountain. No I didn’t feel like asking some random family to take a picture of me so I did the best I could. 

So yeah that was my big trip to the Fountain of Wealth. Yay tourism! I’ll let you know if I see any balls of twine. 

 

 

Topics: shopping, sightseeing, traveling | 1 Comment »

One Response to “Fountain of Wealth”

  1. KShumaker Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 9:15 am

    You look adorable in that picture!

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