My fellow travellers
Apr. 10th, 2012 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xylie"This is a free tour, ya?" the man asks the ladies in front of me. I'm already seated, like an idiot with a sticker on my shirt that reads SINGAPORE! They give him one as well and explain that we will head downstairs at 2:15. Everything in Singapore is neat and organized, and the tour program is no different. You must register before the tour begins by about an hour to make it on.
The man sits down next to me. Two business people surrounded by happy Australian tourists, most of them retired. He is from Irvine, lives in Park West and is happy to do so. He has left his native Poland to be in America, working for American companies and loves it. The price of living in Irvine he does not love as much. Park West is reasonable, but everywhere else is so expensive. We agree on this, and discuss my visit to UCI.
Oh, just like Singapore, no? he says to me. "Very clean, but very sterile." I smile because it is true. We discuss Singapore's response to drugs and trafficking, which he considers overkill. He's in the generation before me when everyone tried drugs and while he likes Singapore, he does not think it is worth execution.
I'm at a loss for words as I want to make it through immigration and see some of Singapore, so I turn to the ladies next to me. They are both from Australia and have ditched the younger generations to get a free tour of Singapore. They've just been to Phuket.
I think of Ian and the training class he will need to teach. Thailand is not a long flight to Bangalore. It will not be so hard for him to get here as it has been for me.
The man sits down next to me. Two business people surrounded by happy Australian tourists, most of them retired. He is from Irvine, lives in Park West and is happy to do so. He has left his native Poland to be in America, working for American companies and loves it. The price of living in Irvine he does not love as much. Park West is reasonable, but everywhere else is so expensive. We agree on this, and discuss my visit to UCI.
Oh, just like Singapore, no? he says to me. "Very clean, but very sterile." I smile because it is true. We discuss Singapore's response to drugs and trafficking, which he considers overkill. He's in the generation before me when everyone tried drugs and while he likes Singapore, he does not think it is worth execution.
I'm at a loss for words as I want to make it through immigration and see some of Singapore, so I turn to the ladies next to me. They are both from Australia and have ditched the younger generations to get a free tour of Singapore. They've just been to Phuket.
I think of Ian and the training class he will need to teach. Thailand is not a long flight to Bangalore. It will not be so hard for him to get here as it has been for me.
