They are going to fall very far very fast. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. Small is Good

Reverse Engineer

Good pick up RE. Singa poor was the "GoldenChild" of SE Asia. I wonder if they are still caning kids for chewing gum and spitting it on the sidewalk?

No need, chewing gum is illegal.

Singapore’s GDP dropped an annualized 19.7% last quarter from the previous three months: "more than double the 9.6 percent drop predicted in a Bloomberg survey, and the biggest since at least 1975."

I have heard that few years ago they have made it illegal to piss into lift.
Perhaps it was a large social problem in the past.
They have installed urine detectors in skyscrapers lifts and these are directly connected to police stations.
I do not know, would you be immobilized in the lift once you are detected pissing, though.

Lift? Lift is getting a car ride.

Hey bud, can ya get me a lift!

Next you will tell me a 'boot' is the trunk.

The global economy has been built on cheap labor and cheap energy.

Take cheap energy and transportation out of the equasion and you have
Singapore.

We always heard that they would be immobilized,(and I never tried to find out) but that didn't seem to stop the lifts from smelling like piss. By the way, they aren't just in skyscrapers. Most apartment buildings had them also.

I guess RetardedEngenier has size issues. No wonder he never got a woman.
As for the topic, " while the fat dries, the thin dies" ever heard this simple truth? No matter how deep Singa will fall, his neighbours will be worse off and will be dieing to get in.

There's more where that came from :

windscreen / windshield
bonnet / hood
car park / parking lot
petrol / gasoline
number plate / license plate

football / soccer
holiday / vacation
toilet / bathroom

shoelace / shoestring
torch / flashlight
...

...until Malaysia cut them off from water and electricity supplies, once they have failed to pay their bills, or just for fun
And if e-rubbish can no longer be sold, how they would pay for food, I wonder?

Not to worry, we will use NeWater. In fact if push comes to shove we might even have to drink it

And, you probably mean natural gas supplies, for electricity. Yes, Malaysia is the other supplier, Indonesia is the primary supplier. And, Singapore is building its own LNG terminal. Yeah! (*sigh*)

To top it off, we may no longer need to worry about energy both for electricity and for desalination, once we go nuclear. Yup you heard that right. Nuclear power for Singapore. I used to kinda lobby for that. The Greens, or what passes for Greens around here, were/are understandably horrified. That's fine. Build one in my backyard. Except that living in an apartment (flat), I don't *have* a backyard. Muahaha.



We will help LucasArts create more Star Wars/Clone Wars episodes for your consumption.

We will build more solar panels and less semiconductor chips.

We will, we will (I need help here), oh yes, we will open the casinos (um, "integrated resorts") soon. Do not worry about Las Vegas Sands (was $138, now $5), they will build our project. And *only* our project.

We will (I need to think), ok, we will continue to host Formula 1. That will bring in the crowds. Yes.

Like Jim Puplava says, "less bad is the new good".

Singapore upgrades 2009 GDP forecast to a contraction of 4-6%



On the other hand, the government is trying to manage expectations by downplaying the "green shoots" thing.



And I say, watch out for that Double L, coming to an economy near you.

I have successfully managed to smuggle gum into Singapore and chewed
1) walking off the plane
2) the queue for immigration
3) on the MRT
4) on the street

Hey, haven't seen you around for a while, how're you doing.

I'd suppose it's alright as long as you don't go around sticking the stuff onto lift buttons, MRT train doors, or just plain dropping it on the floor for other people to step on. The other no-no is actually offering it for sale. Other than that, I haven't heard of people getting prosecuted for simply chewing it.