Paul's Oriental Travelogue

Asia's Switzerland

I never had to go through a metal detector to enter a country before. Judging by the list of prohibited items, they were searching for contraband chewing gum. So Singapore is pretty clean. But it's not the shiny futuristic cleanliness...
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It's just not cricket!

Singapore is maybe not Switzerland. There's one upscale chocolat-erie of some sort in the Esplanade Theatre mall by the river, but that's about it for clocks and chocolate. Recruitment posters for the Singapore Navy on the subway make me wonder...
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Bizarro World Gulliver's Travels

Singaporeans are giants!! Or maybe they just like miniature credit cards. Actually some of them are pretty big. It must be the nutrition. Compared to Burma, which was by far the shortest country ever -- on more than one occasion...
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Asian Beer Survey Part 2

My last day in Asia (for the time being) is an occasion to round off the Asian Beer Survey that left off in Nha Trang, Vietnam on March 13. An Australian Beer Survey will surely follow and I'd better get...
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