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Life in Singapore-Smoke gets in your eyes

From the city of Singapore, and the country of Singapore for that matter, I write this epic blog. Singapore is a very nice country, I just wish I could see it through the damn haze that covers the city... This haze comes from my beloved Indonesia, where farmers burn down forests to be able to increase their income a bit. Then the smoke blows over too Singapore and Malasia, who cares about them anyway.
As I am writing these first two paragraphs the song Wish you were here by Pink Floyd sounds in my ear and I can´t help missing all my friends from all around the world and specially my Icelandic friends, those who see me almost every day, even without my make-up!
As well as Pink Floyd (although it is now Stevie Ray that graces my awsome ears) there are two other voices that pierce my golden thoughts. It is the words of the girls living here, they are talking on Skype to some people, one in Cantonese or Kantonese or whatever, the other one in Chinese Mandarin... quite an international athmosphere, although these languages obviously don´t measure up to the magnificent Icelandic language which only the superior people in the world are blessed to learn.
Life here in Singapore is redicilusly (wow... that is spelled incorrectly, as many others probably, i am too lazy to run this through word or any other spelling check) expensive, but very nice, all the streets are so clean, no trash anywhere, the traffic moves smoothly, not the eternal traffic jams that charecterises Jakarta. Everywhere you can see signs threatening redicilusly high fines for smoking, throwing gum or any other behaviour. The best sign so far was in a back alley (don´t ask me what I was doing in a back alley in Singapore, too long story), there was a sign, red triangle which had an interesting picture with the text "no humping"!! brilliant!!
We have a new secretary general in the United Nation... a S-Korean guy no one has ever heard of, the same applied to Kofi Annan when he was chosen. I think the UN should re-think their selection a bit, it is under criticism by the public, so to become popular again they should elect a popular figure... lets say Justin Timberlake or someone like that, would also lighten up the mood a bit, instead of arguing over a little bit of nuclear power in Iran and N-korea they would dance to Seniorita and other classic songs... then they can sit down, the tension out of their body and they can throw away the nuclear plan... Also the pulic would connect more with UN and its leader like that. Imagine turning on the evening news and see George Bush and Kim "something" shake their asses together... great way to generate votes and build world peace...
Somehow Iam totally empty now, can´t think of anything to write about.. if you have some favorite topics that I should write about in my next blog, please comment... It can be anything from dwarf porn over to the foreign policy of Mali...
Untill then...

posted by Tomas @ Wednesday, October 18, 2006