Post card from Singapore 1981



Modern city of Singapore

A very modern city, I could be any where in the West but I was not, I was thousands of miles away from home. I found a room with a coloured TV in a YMCA with 5star service.  I had not seen a TV for the last ten months and it was such a joy to watch television which provided me with English speaking entertainment and I even got to see the famous series in England called ' Shoe String ', but sadly it was sub titled in English. When alone at night the TV was such a comfort but it also made me home sick and I was having sleepless nights, bad dreams and counting my days for the journey home.

Singapore is a city where most tourist, especially the wealthy one from India, come to buy truck full of electronic goods and it has a large Indian and Chinese population. It is the only place I know on this planet where I would get arrested if I did not leave a clean public loo after use!!It also has a law where chewing bubble gum in public and spiting it out in public place will mean harsh penalty. Yes, Singapore cleaned up its streets of drug and opium smokers and the street are spotless of any chewing too!!