How many Singapores to go?

@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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@franxav (13920)
• India
20 Jan
Though a small country people have a happy life , we hear.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
Yes, that's true. It has been well governed and the people are mostly looked after very well.
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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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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Jan
I'm sure Western Australia is much larger than Texas.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
I've forgotten how many Britains can fit into just our state but it's quite a number.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jan
@rebelann It's about four times the size of Texas but much is uninhabited.
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@AmbiePam (95793)
• United States
20 Jan
It’s a great sculpture. It reminds me of an actual picture I saw once.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
I checked and I did a post about the Singaporean sculptures some years ago.
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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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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
Funny, isn't it? But at least they were happy with figuring distances in Singaporeans! lol
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@jstory07 (141464)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20 Jan
What a nice sculpture that you took a picture of.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
These artists are very clever.
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@rakski (130939)
• Philippines
20 Jan
nice modification!
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@rakski (130939)
• Philippines
20 Jan
@JudyEv at least you have established something that they will understand
@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
At least they understood the distances a bit better.
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@popciclecold (39746)
• United States
20 Jan
I like the photo of the statues.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
They had some other lovely ones too. I wrote about them some years back.
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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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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Jan
We have the Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew in our bookshelves. Singapore has done very well for itself.
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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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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jan
We were impressed with it.
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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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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jan
They used the same 'miles' as we did but they could get but you can drive across Singapore, east to west' in 30 to 40 minutes. Here, it takes that long to get to the next town! lol
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@Shiva49 (26891)
• Singapore
23 Jan
Yes, Singapore is one of the smallest of countries. Once we take off on a flight, we are out of the country borders. I did wonder at how long it took to leave Australia when I was flying back to Singapore.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jan
I think the flight from Perth to Bali takes about the same time as from Perth to Melbourne. Our state is very isolated really.
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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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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
We certainly enjoyed our time there. I loved the zoo too.
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@ekta54 (1193)
• Delhi, India
20 Jan
Very nice picture..
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
Thanks. They had some other lovely scultures too.
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan
@ekta54 Here is another one.
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@ekta54 (1193)
• Delhi, India
20 Jan
@JudyEv Ooooo... wow!!
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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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@wolfgirl569 (110901)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Jan
That's a good way to describe it
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@JudyEv (345270)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jan
It made more sense to them.
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