"Keith G" wrote in message
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and smell the Singapore Slings!

There's a prog on the telly right *now* featuring the world's busiest
port - Singapore. A quarter of all the world's cargo passes through it!!

Watching the scale of the operation and pace (enthusiasm and commitment)
of those involved confirms my suspicions that the slack-arsed, complacent
West has got a hell of a shock coming! They're docking ships the size of
Wales at the rate of one every 3 minutes and Singapore (4.5 million souls)
is 'wealthier than most European countries'!!

**Yeah, well, have you been there? A week and you've pretty much seen it
all. Food is ordinary (compared to hong Kong) and the place operates pretty
much under marshall law 24/7. Executions are on Fridays. Possession of
canabis is sufficient. The weather is unrelentingly hot and humid. Everyone
lives in an almost identical high rise apartment. The Jurong Bird Park was
mighty impressive, however. There's nothing else to do in Singapore, but
work your butt off.





There's a little bit of patronising opinion in here about the recent
influx of Far Eastern audio products like the phrase 'Made In Hong Kong'
still only applies to joke rubber dog**** and plastic trinkets found in
Christmas Crackers! (Strong with our antipodean comrades,
unsurprisingly.... ;-)

Time to overcome our prejudices and take note methinks...

**We'll see. Watch what happens when the current generation has all the
money and power. We're seeing already in China. Young people simply don't
want to work as hard as their parents did.


--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au