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luckyloser700
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| PAULH wrote: |
Putting soy sauce on rice. Big no-no.
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Done that. Plain white rice - boring? Always carry a few packs of Anpanman furikake with me. Good stuff. |
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Eva Pilot
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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Location: Far West of the Far East
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Singapore. World's safest place. *loves Singapore* |
It may be the world's safest place, but you couldn't pay me enough to live in Singapore with all their authoritarian attitudes and signs announcing fines for just about any human activity. |
Once you actually go there, you see it's a perfectly fine place for any decent human being to go. Unless you're a compulsive littering and spitting kind of person, you will get on absolutely fine.
I did, I was there for 2 weeks and didn't even see anyone get a fine for anything.
I'd love to live in Singapore. |
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abufletcher
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Shikoku Japan (for now)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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I was there for about a week with my family (wife and 3 small children) and I'd never go again. While we weren't fined we did have several people yell at us, including a taxi driver because our 3 year old had the GALL to actually step on his beaufitul white seat covers.
If your idea of "nice" is to live in a sterile cleanroom, Singapore might be nice. It all looked like a bad sci-fi movie to me. Kuala Lumpur is MUCH more my kind of town.
If I were to go again it would be with a large smelly supply of durian to eat on the subway. |
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Like a Rolling Stone
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Eva Pilot wrote: |
Singapore. World's safest place. *loves Singapore
Once you actually go there, you see it's a perfectly fine place for any decent human being to go. Unless you're a compulsive littering and spitting kind of person, you will get on absolutely fine.
I did, I was there for 2 weeks and didn't even see anyone get a fine for anything.
I'd love to live in Singapore. |
Perfectly fine place 
I said that! |
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kdynamic
Joined: 05 Nov 2005
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Might have to crash at a capsule hotel at times if I can't catch the last train out. |
Unfortunately most capsule hotels do not accept women OR foriegners, so more likely than not you're gonna be outta luck there. |
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abufletcher
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abufletcher
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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I was there for about a week with my family (wife and 3 small children) and I'd never go again. While we weren't fined we did have several people yell at us, including a taxi driver because our 3 year old had the GALL to actually step on his beaufitul while seat covers.
If your idea of "nice" is to live in a sterile cleanroom, Singapore might be nice. It all looked like a bad sci-fi movie to me.
If I were to go again it would be with a large smelly supply of durian to eat on the subway. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| kdynamic wrote: |
| Jazz1975 wrote: |
Might have to crash at a capsule hotel at times if I can't catch the last train out. |
Unfortunately most capsule hotels do not accept women OR foriegners, so more likely than not you're gonna be outta luck there. |
Jazz and I did a search. there's about 6 capsule hotels in Tokyo that accept female guests. She already contacted one in Ikebukuro.
I have stayed at capsules. They let you stay there as long as you observe house rules e.g. no loud noise or drunkenness. |
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Like a Rolling Stone
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| abufletcher wrote: |
I was there for about a week with my family (wife and 3 small children) and I'd never go again. While we weren't fined we did have several people yell at us, including a taxi driver because our 3 year old had the GALL to actually step on his beaufitul while seat covers.
If your idea of "nice" is to live in a sterile cleanroom, Singapore might be nice. It all looked like a bad sci-fi movie to me.
If I were to go again it would be with a large smelly supply of durian to eat on the subway. |
I thought you did a double post abufletcher. In Singapore you get fined AND caned AND sterilised  for that. |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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Location: the Chocolate Side of the Force
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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Singapore is a fine city!
You get a fine for this and a fine for that ! |
I have a t-shirt that says exactly that.
FRONT: plain grey, small letter along the bottom hem "Singapore is a Fine City!"
BACK: 12 different fine-able offenses in Singapore and the fine incurred.
--boz |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Bozo Yoroshiku wrote: |
| Like a Rolling Stone wrote: |
Singapore is a fine city!
You get a fine for this and a fine for that ! |
I have a t-shirt that says exactly that.
FRONT: plain grey, small letter along the bottom hem "Singapore is a Fine City!"
BACK: 12 different fine-able offenses in Singapore and the fine incurred.
--boz |
They have a sensible way of dealing with drug traffickers too. They just hang them. |
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shuize
Joined: 04 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Ahh!...Why did I do that? |
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| luckyloser700 wrote: |
| What is the single-most serious social blunder a foreigner living in Japan can make in the workplace or just out in public? |
"So, um, did I ever tell you about the time I was in jail ..." |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject: Re: Ahh!...Why did I do that? |
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| What is the single-most serious social blunder a foreigner living in Japan can make in the workplace or just out in public? Lately, I've been wondering if I'm not sensitive enough to cultural differences. |
Thinking that the office girls at your workplace actually want to date you because you are a foreigner. |
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kdynamic
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Ahh!...Why did I do that? |
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"So, um, did I ever tell you about the time I was in jail ..." |
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Jazz1975
Joined: 14 Feb 2006
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Location: Zama, Kanagawa
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Jazz and I did a search. there's about 6 capsule hotels in Tokyo that accept female guests. She already contacted one in Ikebukuro. |
Paul, the Google expert  . Actually, the capsule hotel I contacted is in Akhibara. |
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