How many Singapores to go?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (345270)
Rockingham, Australia
January 19, 2025 6:35pm CST
I mentioned couch-surfing in a recent post and was reminded of two people we hosted who were from Singapore. At that stage, they hadn’t done much travelling and they were very befuddled with our distances.
We would be driving from A to B and they would ask how many miles was it. If it were more than a handful of miles, they couldn’t really comprehend it and we took to saying it was maybe ‘one Singapore’.
Singapore is a very small country, measuring 50 kilometres (31 mi) from east to west and 27 kilometres (17 mi) from north to south. So, to go to our home town from where we were living was about 3 Singapores or 150 kms. It worked at the time.
The photo is of a Singaporean sculpture I really liked. There were more, all beautifully crafted.
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Jan
Some really detailed features on those kids, amazing how the artist did that.
What an interesting concept. I wonder how the military people that came here from countries like Holland, Germany or Japan figured the distance, Texas is larger than any of those countries and I imagine some of your states are larger than them as well.
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@FourWalls (70981)
• United States
20 Jan
Great sculpture! I will hopefully be traveling a few hundred Singapores from here soon. 



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@ptrikha_2 (47313)
• India
27 Jan
Singapore is technically a city-country. So it is a city as well as country.
I had read that they did not had many natural resources unlike India, China, US or even to some extent Australia.
However, they used Trade, Business, Tourism and their Enterprise, honesty and hard work to full use.
It is now one of the best countries in the world.
The concept of "N Singapores" is interesting!
Even Hong Kong is not very big I suppose !
The sculpture is unique and well made.
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@ptrikha_2 (47313)
• India
28 Jan
@JudyEv
Their discipline is great.
Singapore airport was once judged as the best in the world.
Big taxes and City area surcharge for vehicle parking mean that most people do not purchase a car and instead use public transport.
Lee Kuan Yew had a big impact on Singapore's growth path!
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@ptrikha_2 (47313)
• India
29 Jan
@JudyEv
Many people do not keep their own car.
The Public Transport is so well managed that they manage without a private car.
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@allknowing (140084)
• India
20 Jan
Singapore is a clean and well laid out country I have been there several years ago
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@allknowing (140084)
• India
21 Jan
@JudyEv That was my first foreign trip and my first encounter with a Mall I shopped and shopped till I finished all the limited dollars I had - some hidden as there were restrictions those days.
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@DaddyEvil (140457)
• United States
20 Jan
I'm sure a lot of people from smaller countries don't understand just how much room there is in large countries. And how much driving has to be done just to get somewhere else.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
That's very true. Our son was involved with an Irish group once and the agent wanted them to travel from Albany to Kalgoorlie then back to Esperance for back-to-back gigs. It was just really stupid. He obviously had no idea about our geography and hadn't bothered to check.
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@DaddyEvil (140457)
• United States
20 Jan
@JudyEv I suppose that means they didn't make the back-to-back gigs? 

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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
@DaddyEvil They switched dates around to something achievable.
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@RasmaSandra (82219)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Jan
I can understand how the US distances would confuse them, Luckily now we can travel just about anywhere through the Internet,
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@Beestring (14870)
• Hong Kong
20 Jan
Nice sculptures. I've been to Singapore a few time. Nice city.
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@GardenGerty (161927)
• United States
20 Jan
When my kids were little and I would want to convey the length of time to do something or get somewhere it was "about one cartoon", back when they were half hour shows. I think that was clever of you to use this concept to help them.
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