27 JANUARY — NO PRIZE for guessing where this is — nope, this is not your typical hawker centre or HDB block, but THE Istana.
Imagine: people littering indiscriminately at the White House. I wonder what would the White House staffers say to that?
It seems like the presidential palace has attracted more than just people during its open house on the second day of Chinese New Year.
For the foreigners out there, the Istana is where the President lives and works in Singapore. And no, the president here mainly serves a ceremonial role with very limited executive powers, quite unlike the American president.
Anyway, I didn’t manage to take a picture of the whole stretch as the queue entering the Istana was moving quite quickly. Trust me, the scene was much worse than it looks...
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