This coming Sunday is Singapore's 50th anniversary of independence! To celebrate, I've drawn this exceptionally long comic for you:
In case my ham-fisted drawings didn't accurately convey what the Merlion looks like, this is what it looks like:
Here is the original Merlion statue, by local sculptor Lim Nang Seng.
And here is the giant Sentosa Merlion edifice. You can climb to a viewing gallery inside its mouth and on top of its head.
You can see the Sentosa video I mention here. While I have yet to find the original video I saw (with the CGI Merlion shooting laser beams at the storm, the Sentosa Merlion page still mentions it:
And finally, here is me getting attacked by Murray the Merlion. Majulah Singapura!
