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Watch what you do in Singapore

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by pirc1, Apr 12, 2005.

  1. Invisible Fan

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    Imagine the killing you'd get for that much weed in a police state. It'd probably have the street value of 2 Mercedes CLK55s.
     
  2. pickymen

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    I agree on the boring part. I've been here for almost 6 years and there's really nothing much to do. It's a good and safe place to earn a living, b with the strong currency you can do lots of things in the neighboring countries during the weekend:

    - go wakeboarding
    - drive up to Malaysia for horseback riding, scuba diving, cheap food, and DVDs
    - take a bus to Genting Highland's mountain resort and casino
    - fly to Indonesia for skydiving
    - 2 hour flight to Bangkok for shopping

    Just watch your belongings, while you might not be carrying any drugs, you surely don't want someone using your luggage for a free ride.
     
  3. DanHiggsBeard

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    You'd make a fascist proud.
     
  4. ShaqHater

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    Yes, apparently he is getting a killing. :(
     
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    and Americans wonder why people who've never been to the USA hate America.....
     
  6. johnvv

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    Rules are rules, if you break them you gonna have to face the consequences of your actions. Simple as that. If a couple million people can stick to the rules why can't he?
     
  7. Glyyde

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    quality of life in singapore is not that good.... a small country packed full with ppl....

    shopping.... expensive.... beaches? too commercialise... and there are only a handful to go to..... food? no way.....

    Malaysia though... is a different story :D
     
  8. johnvv

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    Malaysia=sourpuss (I'm sorry but it's true)
     
  9. Dr of Dunk

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    I know a few people that have gone and/or lived there. All of them said they loved it.
     
  10. pirc1

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    I think I do not want to live in that country. If I win the lotto I would probably go live in Shanghai and San Diego. I would like to visit it though.
     
  11. Sishir Chang

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    Singapore is a great place to visit primarily because you can get such great food and drink the water right out of the tap unlike most of SE Asia. Its also a great jumping off point for going to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and other parts of SE Asia.

    I've got relatives there and I've lived there for awhile and I agree it does get boring pretty quickly if you're just in it for the tourists things. Also even though its looks very clean and orderly on the surface there is still a seamy side to Singapore. You just gotta know the right people.

    A funny story about Singapore's underside. In the early 20th and late 19th C Singapore had a very seedy reputation as a place of opium dens, triads, brothels and transvestites. A lot of that was centered on Bugis Street so after independence the government drove out all of the crime there and pretty much tore down Bugis Street. What they found out after awhile was that Bugis Street was a huge tourism draw, although not necessarily the kind they want advertised in Come Visit Singapore brochures. So they rebuilt Bugis Street but couldn't, or wouldn't, find any transvestites so they started importing them from Thailand. Just goes to show the resourcefulness of the Singaporeans.

    I had forgotten they had repealed the gum law otherwise I would've enjoyed some wrigley's last time I was there.
     
  12. Glyyde

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    just y do u say tat?
     
  13. Sishir Chang

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    Well they do grow a lot of soursop in Malaysia.
     

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