A cosy red dot away from it all.
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Those 1st 3 paragraphs in particular form a beautifully written description. They really paint a picture in my mind of the look and ambience of the place. I think you may be in the wrong line of work.
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Thanks Richard, too kind. After last week, I’m starting to think you’re absolutely right. Shouldn’t be working at all! 🙂
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You write so well! Loved this!
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Thanks a lot Anna, glad you liked it.
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This is the most immediate transfer to (and escape from) a place I have ever witnessed. Great for the snails though.
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Yeah, it was snails paradise! 🙂 thanks for reading Manja.
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I echo some of your sentiments about Singapore. Did you also realize that it is probably one of only a few developed countries without press freedom? They value “social harmony” more, or at least that’s what I read from one of their media outlets.
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Hey Bama! I didn’t know there was no free press in Singapore, but with hindsight it isn’t that surprising… The problem is that the kind of “social harmony” they value seem to be a bit too similar to those families who maintain a facade of happiness but which, secretly, hate each other. Don’t you think?
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All media outlets are practically owned by the government. But one thing that separates them from other countries with no press freedom is that the Singaporean government is highly transparent — it has one of the lowest Corruption Perception Index in the world. So yea, the people are less free to say what they want to say, but they have a reason not to complain.
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Funny how that is! What makes the government so transparent, then? Normally, over here in Europe, the moment people look the other side that’s when the powers that be nick everything that isn’t nailed to the walls! Thanks for the insight Bama.
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While reading this, I couldn’t help but think that you were taking us into our global future. The sinister order of it all, where all the unpleasantries are taken care of by authority and all you need to do is shut up and and be a Good Citizen. Sounds a lot like another place in that part of the world.
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Yeah, it had an Orwellian side I’ve to say. I don’t know how much a part is played by that tendency to prefer group harmony to individual rights, but it’s undeniable that 1984 came to mind more than once…
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I like to be in control and I like things (very!) neat, but I still don’t think I could stomach a forced tidiness, a fake climate, coddled youth, or any environment where the messy parts of life – from the physical and beyond – were hidden from view. Holding sludge like that down (or sweeping it under the rug, as you say) seems to me would be like to erupt in quite an ugly way at some point!
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Well, I’m one for hoping that it doesn’t, and it might as well be that Singaporeans there like it that way; surely people are flocking to the place rather than leaving. Still, I see what you’re saying Lexi, and I had the same feeling when in Dubai for instance.
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Well written, as usual. As I read your word images, I couldn’t help but think of “The Stepford Wives”, a book/movie about a community of artificial perfection, peopled by robots.
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Thanks Dave! I remember seeing the film with Nicole Kidman. I hope the book is better than the movie though.
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I like your post 😊.
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Thanks for reading and for your comment! Much appreciated.
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