We were in Singapore for about 4 days, which honestly is a couple days too long. There's a decent collection of colonial buildings just across from Boat Quay, and Little India is a colourful walk, although much of the colour comes from the disneyfication of the area in the same vein as Boat Quay. Really the main action here is shopping, with Orchard Road the main shopping strip, but really I'm pretty sure you can walk the entire island without ever leaving a mall. They're all interconnected via a web of passages themselves lined with shops, so it's pretty disorienting but if your goal is to shop until you drop without breaking a sweat, this is the place for you.

This pic looks interesting, no? Unfortunately it doesn't mean there are ancient walled villages for you to discover in Singapore, it's a tourist trap named Tang Dynasty Village I think. It subsequently went bankrupt, as you could have predicted from the large expanse of empty parking lot in the photo. Inside is a mini-disney of ancient China, with some lame historical recreations. I think we were the only visitors that day, and only went as a last resort as we couldn't think of a thing to do by day four in Singapore.