On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:08:57 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:


Malaysia, though, and it's all rock and roll. g
--
Charlie...

Damn.....


But Malaysia is only what? An hour or less away? Singapore is a
relatively small area. It's sort of a country and sort of a city.
What in Europe used to be called a city state.

It's your kind of place, once you get out ot town (whole place looks
smaller than Manhatten Island, but you'd want to check that...).
Pirates, rebellions, and something like two or three other countries
in easy reach. Yes, last I read (I may be behind date on that),
piracy still happens in the oceans around Malaysia. So you can
(probably) sleep safely at home and work safely in the day, but face
all the messy dangers you want on a mere day trip. The city seems to
be an ethnic mix that's heavy on the Chinese and the Hindu, or was a
decade or two ago.

If you move there, go to the Raffles Hotel and have a Singapore Gin
Sling for me, okay? It's one of the places I have most wanted to see
since reading novels where the spies met in the bar, back when I was a
teenager. If it's still there. I may be behind the times on that,
too, and it may be gone by now. Shouldn't be. It should be a
national monument.

Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. And sometimes by the net.wolverine.

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