Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 December 2013

Singapore! (I'm not crazy about it).

Reader: This blog is supposed to be about Cyberjaya - and at a push Kuala Lumpur.  So how do you justify shoe-horning in an article about Singapore, which is a completely different country, last time I checked.  Well?  Explain yourself!
Me: Singapore is right beside Malaysia.  
Reader: Thank you for explaining! Gosh, I feel silly for having asked.
Me:  No, no, that's fine, no problem.  Just please don't question me again.  NEVER. NEVER. QUESTION. ME!  

Well, I'm glad we've cleared that up.  And to be fair Singapore was once a part of Malaysia, albeit only for 2 years back in the sixties, after which time it was generally agreed to split up again and just stay friends*. 

Either way it is just a short plane trip (or rather less short train journey) away from Kuala Lumpur.  

So what do you get from a visit to this tiny city state?  Well you've got museums, temples, shrines, a big wheel, food, bars, Chinatown and a Little India.  Quite a lot, all told.  So I should probably like it rather more than I do.  It certainly has it's charms, and a couple of days isn't enough time to fairly pass judgement on a country.  I can only say that from the tourists point of views there are more appealing destinations on the planet.