One of the reasons I resigned from an earlier job I had in Singapore was because of the unbearable queuing time I had to endure after the September 11 and SARS outbreak double-whammy.
In fact on a couple of occasions, the infrared thermoscanners that they point to everyone’s forehead as a precaution was the culprit. It often showed my temperature to be much higher than it really is. Of course, this is no suprise because I had to walk across the causeway every day. Why? Traffic was almost unmoving then; again, due to the post-9/11 paranoia coupled with the SARS outbreak precautionary moves.
Imagine my surprise to read that the forehead-scanning thermometers may not be as accurate as originally thought.
Well, at least ASEAN mostly survived the SARS outbreak pretty well. As they say, better be safe than sorry.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:54 am
This is an interesting fact about u. Now I know
August 16th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Yep, now you know
August 27th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Singaporeans, from my experience they work hard, and they play hard!
August 27th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
They complain hard as well.
It sure took me by surprise when I got to know them. Even with the first class infrastructure, education system and quality of life, they can still find tons of things to complain about.
But I guess almost everyone is like that. We don’t appreciate the things around us until they’re taken away.