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Monday, October 20, 2008

Singapore Queries-la!

A few things that I wonder about in Singapore:

a)How are the trains from different lines synchronised at MRT interchange stations to arrive in a manner that you get out off one to immediately walk into another?
b)How come the trees are all to a uniform trim & how come you don’t see them being trimmed?
c)How come a place so close to the equator manages to remain pest-free?
d)Precisely when in history did the national religion evolve to being shopping?
e)What did Orchard road look like before the malls were invented?
f)How come all sense of Singapore discipline breaks down the minute you enter Little India?
g)How does Mustapha do it – keep so many things under one roof at such prices?
h)When did the ‘can-la’ patois actually start?
i)Why did they build high rise condo’s with re-inforced concrete bomb shelters in each of the apartments? Further, in the eventuality of their actual use, how did they intend to get the people cooped up inside, down from the 40th floor, assuming that everything else got wiped out?
j)Why do they bother to publish such a thick newspaper?
k)How come there aren’t so many DVD rental places?
l)Do they seriously need to publish everything in 4 languages?

6 comments:

Nivedita Das Narayan said...

Some more
1)Do they have history as a subject in school curriculum and precisely how thick is the book on S'pore history?
2)Don't they tire of eating, shopping, eating, buying cycle?
3) If Orchard Street is the Jewel in the Crown, how would a Singaporean feel standing next to the Jewels in the crowns of India, Venice, Egypt and such like countries.

Narayan said...

Good questions! Answers:
1)It will be a 1-pager in between a tome like chapters on 'condo buidling through the years in Singapore' & 'mall building - do's & dont's'
2) No! (that was easy - ask tougher questions)
3) probably will skip them & head for the nearest mall

Dev said...

only one question

is it true that genius is born out of pathos in society and since singapore is as close to perfect as (coordinated trains, un trimmed yet trimmed trees) as a society can get - chance of genius coming from there is very less ?

Narayan said...

Probability of genius-ness here is zero! Everything is imported, including intellect!

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