Essential Singapore
Essential Singapore: ------------------------- Just back from the 'fine' country of Singapore - there is a popular T-Shirt that you get there in Chinatown and other markets too, which says that Singapore is such a fine country that you get fine(d) for everything - fined for littering, fined for jaywalking, fined even for chewing gum - can you imagine! ... So apparently the country does not have chewing gums. They also do not have crows - it seems they did not like crows, so they shot them down to the last bird! Anyway, there is just too much written about Singapore these days - some official and guided by the tourism ministry, while some unofficial. In fact, Singapore is perhaps the most exploited and over-exposed destination in terms of holiday writeups - all full of juicy descriptions of the shopping, Bukit Timah Zoo, Bird park, other tourist attractions like the Universal Studio at Sentosa, the Merlions on Marina Bay, and the glitzy Clarke Quay (pronounced 'Clark-k