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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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OMG you had to bring the Muslims into it! I smell a thread split! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Lazza
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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Mugwump wrote: | Lazza wrote: | Mugwump wrote: | Singapore is one of the nearest places to utopia on earth. And like any conceivable utopia, it's clean, modern, safe and a little bland. Wonderful to visit, but if you told me I had to live here forever I'd be wistfully sad. You could not be devastated, just having the feeling there is more to life. Still, for a week or two, it's just fab. Highly recommended. |
If you have time, check out the Singapore zoo at night. Well worth the visit. |
Have been to the night zoo a few times, Lazza. Agreed, it's fabulous. The Singapore zoo, like Melbourne, is probably a model of what a good zoo should be. |
Agreed. And if you havent already done this, go to the Quay area and have a Singapore chilli or pepper crab. Better than incredibly delicious! _________________ Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine! |
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watt price tully
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think positive wrote: | OMG you had to bring the Muslims into it! I smell a thread split! |
_________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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luvdids
Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: work
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think positive wrote: | OMG you had to bring the Muslims into it! I smell a thread split! |
Coz that's what this forum needs.... another muslim thread.
Waiting for the 7* we currently have to be merged!
*the 7 include the army chaplain hats & all ISIS threads. |
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Gees 8.30am and the place is empty! Where is everybody? Where are the pre brekky boys? _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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watt price tully wrote: | Mugwump wrote: | Singapore is one of the nearest places to utopia on earth. And like any conceivable utopia, it's clean, modern, safe and a little bland. Wonderful to visit, but if you told me I had to live here forever I'd be wistfully sad. You could not be devastated, just having the feeling there is more to life. Still, for a week or two, it's just fab. Highly recommended. |
Singpore is a bit too clean for me but I liked each of the few times I'ver been there in the last few years. For me, the tourist highlights included the two major botanical gardens & the orchid garden - breath-taking & stunning.
The Muslim area - for the sights, smells (at times) & food.
& aspects of China Town - although much too touristed these days.
I avoided the zoo (sorry Lazza) after reading a hilarious & sad entry on Trip Advisor last year by a guy from the UK about how tourists were simply ignoring the guides request not to take photo's, not to disturb the animals which they kept on doing during thus guy's entire trip with his wife to the said zoo.
Maxwell's food / hawker market has some great food. In Chinatown we found some great small places to eat. Prawn in Tofu hot pot & Pork hotpots were especially yummy. Of course it's hard to go past a good ol' chicken rice - the Chinese staple in Malaysia & Singapore.
I hadn't been bold enough to try Fish Head Soup, also a national / regional tour de force / tour de fare
Have a good time, Mugwump |
Thanks WPT, that all sounds like good advice. Unfortunately it's a work trip, so far too much will be spent in identikit meeting rooms but we'll escape for a few evenings and I'll try to hunt some of that down. I have heard that the fish head soup is fantastic, though I've never tried it, and I can confirm Lazza's advice that the chili crab at Clark Quay, eaten outside in the drowsy heat of the evening and washed down with a few tiger beers is one of life's pleasures. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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think positive wrote: | Gees 8.30am and the place is empty! Where is everybody? Where are the pre brekky boys? |
I had to deal with an affliction today.
It's called 'Work'. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Bucks5
Nicky D - Parting the red sea
Joined: 23 Mar 2002
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Morrigu
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think positive wrote: | Gees 8.30am and the place is empty! Where is everybody? Where are the pre brekky boys? |
Hmmm 8.30am - just trying to explain to the girls that we have to get up .....
and I have to go to work _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Where do you work? |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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I'd already been at work for 20 minutes and it took nearly an hour to get there. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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It's ok, I'm sure their new clubs will beat any remaining individuality out of them. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Morrigu
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Buggar that - I don't do mornings never have never will - and have just about made that well enough known that I now only have one 8 am meeting every three months
I found this tres amusing!! _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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partypie
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^ love it! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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More like Pork actually but whatever. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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