Well National Day is next week and team Singapore has being practising incessantly. Each Saturday there is practise fireworks, practise jet fighters going through their paces - and practise marching in town.
What does this say about - Singapore - certainly something about perfection - control etc...
Some of the fireworks last night formed an S for singapore - pretty clever. Did look like a big dollar symbol though which is also apt.
There seems to be a slight crisis of identifity here - as it is such a global melting pot - and local culture borrows heavily from Indonesia, Malayisia and China. Plus the expat pool of bankers - the older ones looking to secure young Singaporian wives. Plus the vision for Singapore is some sort of rich global city - stark contrast to the HDB dwellers living off $20K per year I guess.
I need to do cooking lessons - I have no idea what half the food in the supermarket is - and how it should be cooked.
We do not have a car here - and in some ways it limits exploration of the island. Taxis are so point A to point B - with no restless meandering allowed. Will look at renting car soon for a tiki tour. I have heard it is a bad idea to take a car into Malaysia. Car theft there, which is reportedly common, involves until waiting for the car owner to be out of sight - and then towing it with a pick up truck.
Lots of people go to Bintan - I always worry about expat spots in Indonesia - ripe targets really. There are endless plots - going on there - designed to target the european.
Starting to plan a couple of weeks RnR at the end of this year - picturing a nice island resort.
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