Singapore the good, the bad and the ugly

[Mich the Tester]

It's all a bit conformist and somewhat authoritarian. Not exactly the rock and roll capital of the earth.

I prefer grimy cities with some life, like New York or Istanbul.

[Churchill]

I can't believe you used a GOTO

There's nothing wrong with the use of "goto" in the right circumstances.

[EternalOptimist]

Take care with your kids if you want to visit Tiger Balm Gardens (now known as Haw Par Villa).

I went when I was a kid and was living in Singapore with my parents (my Dad was in the RAF out there).

There was a building/cave there called the 10 courts of hell.

It can still give me nightmares...

Seriously.

Agree.
Also - The Singaporans are not a nation of animal lovers as we are, some of their cats and dogs are truly skeletal.
The missus, being a cat lover, took a shine to a bony little tabby that was eating boiled rice that was near a bin behind a restaurant.
The cat scratched her and the scratch became infected with Drengi which is a real danger out there. Plus some of the cats fleas found their way onto her clothing causing her skin to itch, turn red then flake off. Back in England the fleas spread amongst her friends and it became a real problem. Luckily she did not look out of place with large sheets of skin hanging off, because they all had it.
The Drengi fever is under control now, which is a blessing

apart from that, its a great place

[chef]

Goto?

Are you a programmer or something?

heehee writing "goto" is a relic of my BASIC days.. I'm seeking help for it, it's usually under control

10 Print "hello world"
20 Goto 10
Run

[Spacecadet]

Queuing etiquette. Or complete lack of.

Its not just the queueing the general attitude there is one of me me me and f**k everyone else.
You really do get the feeling that it's only so safe because the school are so strict. Anything a local singaporean thinks they can get away with, they will try.


You don't really notice it till you go to Malaysia for a day. Then you realise how drivers in Malaysia give way and let you in. Where as in singapore you can barely see daylight between the back of one car and the front of the next.

[TimberWolf]

heehee writing "goto" is a relic of my BASIC days.. I'm seeking help for it, it's usually under control

10 Print "hello world"
20 Goto 10
Run

Goto almost deserves to be a word.

Re Singapore, I've been there, but at the tail end of a long cycle ride down the East coast of Malaysia and I don't remember much about the place now, apart from an eagerly awaited steak I ordered at a hotel which I found almost inedible because they'd put curry or something on it. That and avidly reading the paper (Straits Times?), which was the first thing I'd read for about a month.

[DaveB]

heehee writing "goto" is a relic of my BASIC days.. I'm seeking help for it, it's usually under control

10 Print "hello world"
20 Goto 10
Run

A fellow student when I was at Uni once wrote the following on the university shared mini-computer.

The script was called test.csh

#!/bin/csh
print "hello world"
./test.csh

The system shat itself in about 10 seconds flat and the student did similar when the sysadmin got hold of him.

[cojak]

Agree.
Also - The Singaporans are not a nation of animal lovers as we are, some of their cats and dogs are truly skeletal.

Yep, I came upon a load of youngsters a bit older than me (11 or 12) crowding around a storm drain and having a whale of a time.

They were betting on how long it would take to drown a rat they'd caught in a cage.

A serious amount of money changed hands in that 20 minutes...

[OwlHoot]

Orchard Park was nice, but too many flowers for my taste. Plus my travelling companion was stung by a L a t h w a s p on the finger. This wasp is a native of Singapore and has a nasty venom, it spread up his arm and he developed a growth in his armpit.
The local doctors decided on surgery when it reached the size of a small grapefruit, and it was successfully removed. The bizarre part was that whilst the surgery was free (under a transfer agreement with the NHS) the anaesthetic was not, which ended up costing him four and a half thousand quid

nice orchids though.

EO, I think you've just achieved a Googlewhack.

Googling on "L a t h w a s p" (quoted, and without the spaces of course) returns exactly one result - your post!

[EternalOptimist]

EO, I think you've just achieved a Googlewhack.

Googling on "L a t h w a s p" (quoted, and without the spaces of course) returns exactly one result - your post!

I hope no one thinks I am making this stuff up