Sunday, March 30, 2008
For those who find it hard to believe. It is true, I've been in Singapore for the weekend to celebrate my parents wedding anniversary. The responses I got back here were all the same really. Hand shake, followed by when are you going back, and when they find out that its sunday morning, it's always wow so fast. I was just thinking last night, I spent less than 48hours in Singapore. I know people are wondering why I didn't come back earlier since it was a week of easter break. To be honest, I don't really know why I didn't do that either.
Last nights dinner was good, the programme was great. Maybe one day if I ever get the video of the thing I'll let those interested see. I too am interested in finding out how my little speech went. The affair was well, grand? Very wedding like. My mum had this whole silver theme picked out, and my brother and I were supposed to fit the theme as well. I was to wear a grey shirt, and my brother a silver tie. However, unaware of course, I found the grey shirt too big, so I wore another shirt I bought during easter, and my brother found his silver tie too big, so he wore my brown tie. It wasn't so obvious that we didn't fit, but you could sort of tell if you looked hard enough.
Highlight of the trip, however, wasn't the dinner as grand as it was. It was the lovely cab ride I had on the way to the airport. The uncle was rattling on about how only the rich can survive in Singapore, how the compulsory annuity passed by the government didn't benefit him, and how increased competition in the cab industry has reduced his income by about half. Of course, I had to hold back from explaining to him the reasons for the annuities, and its benefits, from how increased competition benefited everyone as a society, and how being rich is not the only way to survive in Singapore. It also didn't help that all this happened in Chinese. I'll be honest I didn't understand him word for word, but I kind of managed to follow as he changed subjects. Impressed myself really to be able to converse with him in Chinese. Looks like I'm not that abd after all.
OK, final call for my flight. See you all in Melbourne.
Dan
11:53 am
