I just came back from Singapore. A nice city .. very clean but very hectic. People walk very fast. At first I didnt realize why i felt tired every nite and time seems to be less than 24hrs there. Then I realize, car make a bit different in our life. Taking public transport make me walking, standing and travelling a lot. Most of the time/energy spends on the journey itself. They have a lots of rules .. and they really implement it. Nobody eat chewing gum and the best thing is .. nobody smoke in public. I like that one .. hehhehe...
They system are good. Seriously good. I think their MRT maybe better than London interm of frequency of services. Lots of Tourist Information centre but they are CITY of MONEY. All the rules involved money. Even the public transport, they just have Ezy Card( TouchN Go kind of thingy) which give you discount every journey. There is no monthly pass.
Branded stuff are cheap relative to their currency. You can get a nice, comfort shoes below $50 even $30 but foods and services are equivalent dollar to RM. Mentos sold in 7-11 for $1.40 but Evian waters just $1.70. So weird :). I think Singapore is good if you are young, stylo mylo but if you prefer a slow life ( like me) .. Singapore are not for us.
Life in Singapore seems to be higher standard than Malaysia but I think in reality there are lots of people suffer. Lots of people have to take multiple job to sustain with the life. I talked to the Taxi uncle on my way back. Uhh pity gak le. They can't buy Taxi by themself even if they have money/permit. They have to get rent it from a company for $105 per day. So in a month, taxi driver hv to pay ~$3150 excluding diesel. Full tank of diesel is abt $70, so in total, everyday he must earn more than $180 which make him to work more than 16 hours per day. So everyone have to be hardworking..
They system are good. Seriously good. I think their MRT maybe better than London interm of frequency of services. Lots of Tourist Information centre but they are CITY of MONEY. All the rules involved money. Even the public transport, they just have Ezy Card( TouchN Go kind of thingy) which give you discount every journey. There is no monthly pass.
Branded stuff are cheap relative to their currency. You can get a nice, comfort shoes below $50 even $30 but foods and services are equivalent dollar to RM. Mentos sold in 7-11 for $1.40 but Evian waters just $1.70. So weird :). I think Singapore is good if you are young, stylo mylo but if you prefer a slow life ( like me) .. Singapore are not for us.
Life in Singapore seems to be higher standard than Malaysia but I think in reality there are lots of people suffer. Lots of people have to take multiple job to sustain with the life. I talked to the Taxi uncle on my way back. Uhh pity gak le. They can't buy Taxi by themself even if they have money/permit. They have to get rent it from a company for $105 per day. So in a month, taxi driver hv to pay ~$3150 excluding diesel. Full tank of diesel is abt $70, so in total, everyday he must earn more than $180 which make him to work more than 16 hours per day. So everyone have to be hardworking..
