2003-02-25 - 11:03 p.m.

For 15 minutes I was a mini-tour guide to a gentleman from Isreal.

He had only 1 day in Singapore and he wanted to see as much as he could.

"Where's the best place to go? Sentosa?"

"Um, not really, it's very tourissy (in which I meant, expensive) Maybe the Night Safari or Little India might be more interesting?"

He was on his way to where I work to see the world's biggest indoor fountain. Unfortunately, the fountain is under repair. But he will be catching the Singapore "Hop-on" bus for a couple of dollars and see most of Singapore from behind the glass windows.

He was on his way to Australia and from what I gathered from our short conversation, he was on a leisure/business trip selling a special patented type of tooth brush... hmm!

"Is it easy to sell such a thing in Singapore?"

"Well, possibly, since Singaporeans are getting more health conscious"

I was short of saying Singaporeans are suckers for anything new but I held my tongue. I'd like to think he would have a good impression of where I grew up.

For 15 minutes, I felt particularly proud to call myself a Singaporean.

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