Singapore!

then again she did make a short with a gay relationship in it, think she had some state funding too. seems like i got it twisted somehow.

yeah in my experience, it's more of an repressive asian family/cultural thing, not really a state thing. also while you can't find porn easily in singapore, as far as discussions/portrayals in the media and sex ed in schools, they're way less uptight about it all than malaysians are.

i'm going here in three weeks to visit my dad. what can i do here?

Chew gum

what drugs should i bring?

also open to tips on what to do in thailand.

..... bump?

this is where my mom's from! but it's been Radically Transformed since her tenure so i can be of no help sorry. sometimes i argue w her about lee kwan yew like a good first amendment kid but she always half convinces me.

don't spit, is the only advice i can give.

william gibson wrote an article about singapore once called "disneyland with the death penalty" but, like, dude, bill, that's just disneyland.

lol

people say singapore is chicago to hong kong's new york

things to do in singapore: renounce your us citizenship and take advantage of singapore's super low tax rate

I spent four days in Singapore a few years ago and basically ended up eating a lot and going to the cinema several times. Nice respite from the craziness of the rest of SE Asia, but not very interesting after the first day.

In Thailand, I would recommend going to the lovely chilled out riverside town of Kanchanaburi.

try walking slowly and aimlessly, sometimes standing in place

haha

i will be doing that, i think.

See if you can find a beer in a restaurant or bar for under $10.

http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?248-Singapore

"Money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Towers

The only country music bar in Singapore 'Country Jamboree' is located on the 2nd floor.

if you go to singapore and don't go to country jamboree, you might as well stay in union.

I'm headed to Singapore in a month - we have some friends there on a fullbright and I'll have just finished grad school so it seems like a nice time to go. They (and another friend who has traveled there a lot for business) say it's kind of boring but we're also going to go to Phuket and Bangkok for a couple days - these friends have lived in Bangkok on two separate occasions and will be our guides which will be kind of nice.

Anything worth checking out other than eating a lot? Art stuff, cheap foods, people watching, etc? I've never been anywhere outside the US except Italy so I'm super stoked but also kind of terrified.

i might be moving to singapore. anybody lived there before?

Is someone paying for you to do that? The rental market (which almost entirely targets ex-pats) is deeply awful right now, theoretically because of companies moving everyone from Hong Kong but also because there's nothing stopping people from raising rents by 75%.

Yes, my wife’s job, but I’ll have to leave my job to go. Tell me good places to live

Expats tend to cluster around Holland Village and Bukit Timah; they're livable, though it feels very much like a suburb, and a little boring, though maybe that's just how Singapore is. If you can live way out east, I like Joo Chiat and Kantong - they feel a bit more neighborhood-y.

thanks for the info!