Saturday, 5 December 2009

Leaving Singapore...

The conference ended on Friday late afternoon and was really interesting. I had dinner in Mosque Street (near the mosque) in a Chinese restaurant serving North-Eastern Chinese food ("DongBei" in Chinese).
It was pouring rain in Singapore on Saturday morning: a nice and warm equatorial rain; no wonder Singapore is so green! I saw two friends who used to live in Hong Kong and that was so great! Singapore is booming: there are cranes and new towers being built everywhere, mostly appartments. Near the airport which has four terminals now (for a city of 5 million people, it could sound excessive, but last year 10 million people visited Singapore!) - so, near the airport, a new casino is under construction, which has stirred lots of debates among Singaporians as many of them are reluctant to see their Singapore turn into a new Las Vegas or Macau.

One thing I love in Singapore is that it is truly international and everything is written in four languages... can you guess which ones?

4 comments:

  1. 1,2 English and simplified Chinese for sure
    3 Something Indian = Hindi?
    4 Bahasa?

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  2. not bad! You get 3 out of 4. You are on the right track for the 3rd one but it is not Hindi.

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  3. Tamil, on the basis that it is the nearest part of India

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