tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post3860759625367070639..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Some stuff to read....on peer review, marketing, witches, school dinners, parks, Africa and UberUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-87725516282450896062016-02-27T14:54:43.375+00:002016-02-27T14:54:43.375+00:00Very interesting, thought-provoking and diverse se...Very interesting, thought-provoking and diverse selection of weekend reading! Although I did have to give up on the Ogilvy & Mather item (text over a spider's web of lines). They need a new web designer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-18852921496511151242016-02-26T20:54:48.564+00:002016-02-26T20:54:48.564+00:00My brother lives in Singapore, I've been there...My brother lives in Singapore, I've been there twice. Fact is, Lee Kuan Yew's book "From Third World To First" is a bit biased but you need to know what people like that think, given that they pretty much are Singapore.<br /><br />You can't help noticing how well they've handled ethnic and sectarian tension compared to other countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. You won't see them (unlike the M'sian government!) blaming "Zionists" for all their woes, they get off their arses and get a job done and they've made the desert bloom.<br /><br />I see no reason, in all honesty, to disbelieve that the PAP are popular. The opposition have their rights, but really maybe they haven't got that much support.<br /><br />You want to get yourself down fto a good old-line hawker centre like Bukit Timah food court, or any of the nature reserves. It's a bit different in Malayais, though I prefer the Singaporean way of doing things.<br /><br />It's al a bit difficult because I think it might be a bit of a racist society and as a white man I might get an easier time of things than a Malay, but the Malays and all ethnic groups have got a life beyond the wildewt dreams of anyone in one of the neighbouring countriews.<br /><br />I hope this maKES sense, I've had a few jars butb it's all true about Singapore, a wonderful place for anyone to go. Bukit Batok nature reserve is to die for.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com