I did some digging and found some interesting Singapore locals, news sites, blogs, & businesses to follow on Twitter. If you think I did a good job and you like them all, I did you a solid and made a list (aren’t I nice? :D ): http://twitter.com/#/list/tara/singapore

Obviously there are tons more because Singapore likes to tweet! Leave some Tweeters to follow in the comments! Support local tweets!

@angryangmo
Bio: World Blogging Award Winner, Writer for Travel Guides, Lifestyle Magazines, Crazy Expat, Hardly Surviving Singapore, Traveling The World Every Day

@artzinesg
Bio: Singapore’s Online Art Magazine covers everything arty that’s happening in Singapore, exclusive interviews with artists and commentaries on art trends

@callsg
Bio: Latest Singapore News.

@commonpeoplesg
Bio: Commonpeople is a project to inspire creativity in Singapore.
Note: They haven’t posted for awhile, but I think the vids are great. Tell them to start up again!

@cowboycaleb
Bio: Popular infamous Asian blogger.

@Culturepush
Bio: Culturepush tracks cool stuff in art, culture and design in Singapore.

@flu_sg
Bio: Your 1-stop SG Swine Flu center – statuses, resources & tips!

@hackerspacesg
Bio: Singapore’s Hackerspace

@HungryGoWhere
Bio: The 1st stop for hungry people. We’re Singapore’s best Food and Restuarant guide, listing the best promos & latest reviews- by the community, for the community!

@ieatishootipost
Bio: ieat of ieatishootipost.sg. Never waste your calories on yucky food!

@KittyWuRecords
Bio: Independent Singapore-based post-rock/shoegaze record label

@mrbrown
Bio: father of 3, Blogfather of Singapore, satirist, writer, traveler, podcaster, tv host and boss of new media content company. Loves gadgets and bicycle commuting.

@NG_Singapore
Bio: Singapore-based travel writer and food lover.

@SatsugaiCat
Bio: I am a cat living in Singapore with a big dream!

@SBRMagazine
Bio: Singapore’s Business landscape, everyday, all day

@singapore2010
Bio: The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. 14 – 26 August 2010

@stim
Bio: Singapore Twitter Incidental Musings. Helping Singapore Twitter users meet face-to-face since 2008
Sad Face! Someone needs to run this account and get the tweetups going again!

@stcom
Bio: Join The Straits Times’ interactive community and get updates from our breaking news and blogs.

@theAsianparent
Bio: Singapore’s most popular parenting magazine – theAsianparent.com

@TimeOutSG
Bio: We cover all of Singapore and a little bit more…

@tomorrowsg
Bio: The Unofficial Twitter feed for Tomorrow.sg: Bulletin of Singapore Bloggers. (run by @ketsugi)

@whatsonsg
Bio: Tweeting and RTing the latest and hottest events in Singapore. Join with #sgevents!

Here are some Twitter Lists that may be of interest to you:

http://twitter.com/tlists/singapore
http://twitter.com/Watchmansg/singaporewatch
http://twitter.com/nekogal/singapore-events
http://twitter.com/kizakee/singapore-soda
http://twitter.com/ZairaOng/singapore

Here are the most “influential” tweeters in Singapore according to wefollow: http://wefollow.com/twitter/singapore

And the Singaporeans with the most followers: http://wefollow.com/twitter/singapore/followers

Remember to add ones to the comments that you like and don’t forget to include your own Twitter account! Stay awesome, Singapore!

It looks like it’s been over a year since the last post here and since this is my 5th trip to Singapore in that same time, I thought I might as well make some posts. I’ll be here for a month which will double my “on the ground” time here and likely start giving me enough local knowledge to start offering some advice to newcomers, and if nothing else this will be a fun place to keep track of travel notes and thoughts. And if it ends up breathing some live back into this blog, well, even better.

I had resisted posting here before because my trips were pretty short and usually single purposed, where as this time it’s definitely more just ‘living here,’ even if for just a brief period. At Metblogs we’ve used the “you can’t post on a site unless you are going to be in a city for more than a week” rule because when people are traveling somewhere for only a few days (even if only a few days on several occasions) their posts, and I include myself in this, sound like that – like someone passing through looking for locals to help. Since we want the sites to be interesting for locals, well, you can see the problem. We don’t want a site full of tourists.

Speaking of, when I travel somewhere it’s very important to me that I don’t stick out too much and generally try to blend in. This is more effective sometimes than others, but I usually ask friends in a city how they spot tourists. We all do it, in every city, without even trying you can walk down a busy street and easily point out the people who aren’t from there. This is because those people aren’t blending in and don’t match the “social baseline” of the residents. Sometimes one simple action can be the tell. In Singapore, it’s wearing sunglasses. On my second trip here I started asking friends about how to spot tourists and they all said “anyone with sunglasses is a tourists.” I started paying attention to this then, and while there are tons of sunglasses shops around, it does seem that almost no one wears them on the street, except a few folks who accurately don’t seem to be from here.

What are your tips for spotting tourists? What advice would you have for someone like myself trying to blend in a little better?