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'!!

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...