シンガポールの旅行
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Hi. Hello.
Hello. Oh, it's hot. Yeah. That's right.
Ah, we forgot to...
We forgot that it was 休日. Yeah.
We were using our 事務所 right now to record. Yeah.
And, uh...
The AC is not on. Right.
You're good. You're sweating. God, I'm sweating. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yo.
Yeah, it's hot.
It's hot. It is hot. It is hot.
If it's getting too hot, I can just need to go outside and find a place.
Some other place. Yeah.
But I think I'm okay. Okay, okay.
Because...
I just got back from Singapore.
Really? I was in Singapore. Yes.
I was in Singapore. You were at Singapore?
On a vacation. You mean, you just came back?
Yesterday, I came back. Oh, yeah? Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
Good, good, good, good.
Yeah, I stayed there for two nights.
Two nights? Yeah. Two nights, three days.
Two nights, three days, yeah. Oh, good.
2.1, something like that.
What do you mean 2.1? I arrived in the middle of the night.
Ah, I see. So... Oh, good.
I've never been there. Singapore.
Singapore. How was that?
So... Very hot.
Very hot? Like even hotter than Japan?
That's what I was expecting.
But I don't know that if Singapore wasn't as bad,
or Japan's getting very bad.
Oh. But it wasn't as different.
Okay. That's Japan, you know?
Like the temperature and humidity and everything?
Yeah, I don't know about the numbers.
I feel like the humidity level's different.
Okay, okay. But in terms of like how comfortable you are outside,
I mean, Japan is just as bad. Wow.
Singapore is just as bad.
I don't know how to say it. Okay, okay.
But historically, Singapore has been more higher temperature,
more humid.
I believe so. I think so.
It's right underneath Malaysia.
So it must be very, you know...
But yeah, maybe Japan's getting really bad recently,
but it was just as bad.
Okay, just as bad.
Yeah, having your backpack on, walking outside for 10 minutes,
you're gonna be like, you're gonna be sweating all over your body.
Wow.
But you didn't feel like seek the coolness.
Yeah?
Because you already knew that it's hot there.
So what do you mean?
You didn't expect, like, you expected it, right?
You knew it.
Yes, I was prepared for it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
That's good, that's good.
Yeah, I mean, oh.
Oh.
Sorry about that. I threw my cap.
Thank you.
All right, let's put it in here.
You gotta...
Goal!
I was expecting it.
I was expecting heat.
Yeah.
So when I got out of the hotel, I was expecting to be like sauna fucking.
Yeah, yeah.
But it wasn't as bad.
It wasn't as bad because I was expecting worse than Japan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see, I see.
Yeah, I see.
That's right.
Okay, okay.
So I don't know.
We don't know, like, maybe Japan is getting worse.
I mean, yeah.
That's one level to that.
I haven't...
So what I want to know right now is over the past, what, five to ten years,
Japan has really gone bad, right?
Severe, right?
I wonder if that's the same thing with Singapore.
If Singapore has not changed, then Japan has calmed down.
Right, right, right.
I see, I see.
So now you kind of get...
Now kind of you're used to this hotness here, like this.
Yeah.
I'm now kind of used to it, yeah.
So you're okay with sweating kind of.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
I'm not that uncomfortable.
Yeah, yeah, I see.
Right.
How was Malaysia?
Oh, no, no, I didn't go to Malaysia.
It's just...
Oh, Singapore, sorry.
Yeah, Singapore.
Singapore, yeah, it was great.
I went to Marina Bay.
Sounds like it.
Marina Bay.
Yeah, yeah, the famous one.
The one with the infinity pool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hotel, the triple tower.
Right, right, right.
It looked more like a banana from the bottom of...
The top, yeah?
Yeah, it looked more like a banana than a pool from the bottom.
What do you mean?
Okay, okay, I see.
The shape of the thingy.
Okay.
I'll show it to you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry.
We're recording it on my phone, so...
No, don't worry.
But yeah, it did look...
Yeah, it was a banana on a building.
I thought it was more like a kind of plate.
That's what I meant as well.
It was more round, circular.
It's more like...
It's more banana-y.
Thin, I would say.
Banana-y.
Yeah, thin.
Sure, like I guess if you...
It's like rounded.
Sure, I guess if you look at it from the side, I guess it looks kind of like that.
But I was looking at it from really close to the building.
So you're like looking up to it, right?
So from that angle, it's more of a banana.
Banana-y.
Yeah.
シンガポールの建物と食文化
You got inside of the pool?
I didn't go in the pool.
Okay.
Yeah, I just got in the building.
Okay.
All right, I got in the building.
The building was great.
I mean...
Yeah.
The air...
AC was unbelievably like rock on.
Hardcore AC.
Yeah.
Hardcore AC country.
Okay.
It gets a little too cold.
Oh, really?
If you stay there too long.
Okay.
If you like.
They have a lot of things.
They have luxury food.
Nice.
Restaurants.
Food courts.
Okay.
Accessible food.
Oh, yeah.
You know, all the shops.
Casinos.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't do the casinos.
You didn't try them?
Minimum bet was 1,000,000 yen.
Yeah, 100 Singapore dollars for my end.
It's too much for me.
Okay.
The fear of losing 1,000,000 yen like that was bigger than the potential happiness of
doubling it.
So, I didn't do it.
Okay.
Yeah, I thought it's better than I expected.
I thought it's like minimum like, I don't know, like 5,000,000 yen, 10,000,000 yen.
Because it's a...
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, it was 1,000,000 yen.
Yeah.
So...
Yeah.
Hotels and...
Hotels, yeah.
The hotel was average.
It was an okay hotel.
Okay hotel.
Humid.
I tried to adjust the AC, but it didn't have the dry mode.
Okay, okay.
So, it only had like the cold mode.
But, yeah, the whole time, it was kind of like just a little bit humid in the hotel.
So, that was a little bit to think about.
In terms of...
Oh, I also went to the Peking Lion.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was there as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
It's called Ma Lion.
Yes.
People say...
Oh, yes, the Ma Lion.
Yes.
Respect.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
People say it's not...
It's the worst...
Was it like worst sightseeing spot in the world?
Okay, so...
Things like that, no?
I've heard of that as well.
People were like, it was not as big.
It wasn't very compelling.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It wasn't like overwhelming at all.
Yeah.
I had too much of that image.
Okay, okay.
Before looking at it.
It was like, oh, it's probably going to be nothing.
But when I looked at it, because my expectations were too low,
I was like, okay, cool.
Like, yeah, okay, nice.
Like, yeah, not bad.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
I didn't get to go close because there were too many people.
Oh.
You know, Singapore is about to be on its 60th birthday soon.
Okay, okay.
In like a week or two.
And they were doing a practice parade.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So when I went there, it was like five minutes before starting.
Oh.
Or like 10, I don't know.
Okay.
So people, it was packed.
I see.
I couldn't really go close to the Marlion.
Okay, okay.
But I looked at it from just a little bit of a far place.
But yeah, I mean, I saw it.
No bad?
Not bad, yeah.
Hawker?
Hawker?
Hawker?
It's this place.
Okay.
Hawker is a, I guess, a type of building.
Type of...
Shisetsu.
Okay.
Type of...
シンガポールの屋台文化
I don't know what it's called.
It's a building that has lots and lots of yatai under the roof.
Oh.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's like street food.
Okay.
But like, not in a street, but like in a...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not in a street, but like in an actual, like, structured building.
Okay.
It's not inside.
It's like, there's no walls.
It's just, it's like a huge tent.
It's a huge concrete tent.
Okay.
So you're, it's like, it's like the, it's the outside.
Huh.
But, but there's, it's, you got, you have tons of...
Okay.
Tons of street food.
Hawker?
Hawker.
Singapore Hawker.
Hmm.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Ah.
I see.
Yeah.
True.
It's like, something like that.
That is exactly what it looks like.
Okay.
Yes.
It's like, I don't know.
It's like, what should I explain?
It's like, it's kind of like beer fest in Japan where you have tons of yatai like completely
mashed together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But in the middle you have all these open seats.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
There's no server.
True.
You just go to the yatai and then get yourself a beer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You just go to the yatai and then get yourself whatever you want.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that.
True.
Yeah.
Hmm.
So you can find like good, cheap.
Yes.
Great food.
Singaporean food, Chinese food.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was basically, I don't know what food it was like.
I don't know.
Chinese, like Asian-y food.
Yeah.
It was all Asian-y.
I see it.
Rice and chicken was the basic kind of like noodles and stuff.
Yeah.
I get it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It tastes like kind of so saucy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're right.
It's kind of sweet.
Yeah.
Kind of tangy.
Yeah.
I get it.
Kind of a bit spicy.
It was like that.
Throughout the whole meal, it was like that.
Okay.
Okay.
But it was good though.
Quality was really good.
It was good.
Good.
Good.
I see.
So overall, you enjoyed the country?
I did enjoy the country.
Good.
Good.
Yeah.
I did.
I did.
Yeah.
So basically, yeah, 2.5 days, 2.3 days.
Yeah.
2.1 days.
Yeah.
2.1 days for me.
That was good enough.
Oh, okay.
I don't know what I would do if I were there for a week or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Isn't Singapore really, really clean?
Yes.
As a country.
Yeah.
I felt it.
You felt it?
It was hot and humid.
I expected a lot of bugs.
Yeah.
During the stay, I saw one bug flying.
Wow.
I saw one fly.
Really?
Throughout?
Yeah.
Throughout the whole trip.
Zero cockroaches.
Zero rats.
Wow.
Zero small fucking bird.
Oh, sorry.
Not bird.
There's birds.
Oh, okay.
There's pigeons.
Yes, I saw pigeons.
Okay.
Like, you know, like those fruit flies.
Flies?
Yeah.
Really?
No.
Just one.
Only one.
Wow.
How do they do that?
Yeah.
I searched online.
It was like the government is really, you know, taking care of those things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Frequent...
Gaijuku-jo.
Wow.
The whole town.
Okay.
So that's why it's not there.
Wow.
That's...
Okay.
I knew it's clean.
I knew there were like no like rats or like things like that.
But they have foods, right?
Yeah.
They have foods.
In places like Hakka.
Hakka, yeah.
It's literally outside.
It's the market, right?
Kind of.
Yeah.
It's one.
That's...
I saw one.
Crazy.
That's crazy.
That is absolutely crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
シンガポールの道路の状態
So the road and everything were really clean.
Yeah, the road for...
Yeah, I mean, roads are...
I mean, some are a little bit, you know, kind of like broken.
Like it was cracked.
Oh, yeah.
But overall, like, yeah.
I mean, it's clean.
I see.
Yeah.
It's not crispy clean, but...
Okay.
Yeah, it was clean.
Cleaner than, yeah, Shinjuku, I'd say.
Okay.
Okay, actually.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'll tell you more about it in the next episode.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
