Greetings From Sing

Apologies for the delay in getting back in contact with you all, after considerable pain I have finally managed to get myself on line. Getting my user accounts moved from Aus has been an interesting exercise in patience and understanding the cultural divide, and as a result I have learned I have none of either.
Singapore itself has been disturbingly easy to come to grips with, it is as clean and efficient as everyone thinks and is warm and moist as my pants. But that said we were a little surprised to see tanks and missile launchers rumbling through the CBD last Saturday. An interesting welcome to our new home, but it turns out it was part of the rehearsal for National day in August. In keeping in line with the efficient reputation the rehearsal is not just a quick walk through, it was a full dress rehearsal including thousands of kids in school uniform. But in doing so they managed to cut off the whole of the city and we of course got caught on the wrong side and had to wait 2 hours to be allowed through. Reidy was not impressed from an event management perspective and had some less than flattering observations liberally punctuated with sexual swear words of their ability to put on this sort of event.
Catching the train to work on the first day was interesting, posters on the wall reminded me to be curteous and apparently being forgetful has consequences. It just goes to show how organised they are here, they already have posters up for when John Burrows visits and he hasn't even booked a flight. It is a little off putting though when you get off the station at City Hall and are greeted by Police brandishing machine guns, it makes the English underground police wondering around with excited beagles look a little half arsed in their approach to deterring terrorists.
Anyway must scoot, enjoy or hope you enjoyed your weekend depending on when you read this.