On Saturday night we went out with three of David's friends for a meal to celebrate his birthday. David had chosen a Mexican restaurant in an establishment called Chijmes, which is fronted on the road by the remains of a church and its cloisters which are all painted brilliant white and floodlit.
The Japanese had bombed it in the Second World War and the nunnery that had been there had moved. As they left a selection of bars and restaurants moved in.
Aside from the history, we had a a great evening and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves.
Sunday seemed to come around too quickly and we were off out for breakfast before heading to the Esplanade where we walked along the harbour front to the Museum of  Science and Art which is housed in the Lotus building, so called because it looks like a lotus flower.
We paid to see an exhibition about the Hadron collider at CERN and soon became very clear that none of us had any idea about nuclear physics or the scale of the work at CERN, all of us came out determined to try and learn a little more.
The Lotus building was really interesting, another fine example of innovative Singaporean architecture, unfortunately although it is a fine looking building the petals are virtually useless, we found ourselves inside one which was basically a huge white curved space.
We returned to David's for our evening meal, and David cooked a Thai prawn dish that was excellent, this followed by the Manchester United game on television rounded off our day.
There has been a hint of sadness overhanging the weekend as we all know it is our last in Singapore, but the activities we have attempted, the things we have learnt and the enjoyment we have had made that sadness a little more bearable. Singapore really is an interesting city, it is certainly a place which deserves more than a day or two's stop when you are in transit. It is a city in flux, a space full of building sites, return in five years and it will be fundamentally altered. It is like no ther city in Asia we have visited run by a benevolent, right wing government which looks after the rich and the expats but is not overly concerned by the poor. However, it needs foreign labourers so on every building site you will find an army of Indian workers and most young expats have nannies or maids who are mainly foreign. So the government has in some ways to look after the foreigners it needs to fulfill the tasks its own citizens don't want to do.