Today's Discussion Question: What does Singapore Mean to YOU?

Singapore:
-Has nice things... REALLY nice things
-Is kinda fake seeming... like Disney World with Asian people instead of Disney stuff. It's not creepy though, just kind of odd. I guess its a good thing. Certainly a welcome change from India.
-Is so safe I walked around alone and was totally fine. Nobody waving hello, nobody offering taxi rides (more on this later), nobody selling fistfulls of trinkets in my face. Everybody ignored me, which is what we're used to in cities in the US, which meant it was a very comfortable environment for me.
-is one giant shopping mall... LITERALLY! For example, to cross one street I had to take an underpass under the street. I shit bricks when I went down the stairs to what looked like a subway station under the street that was actually level 4 of 5 of a massive underground shopping mall that connected several other shopping malls inside the tall buildings at the street intersection. There was another area where an open-air outdoor mall in the Chinatown connected via pedestrian overpass to another mall, which was a tram stop down the street from a massive mall. They're Asian-style shopping malls too, where they don't really have wide open spaces like ours, but are pretty cramped inside.
-Is weird since in those Asian style malls, literally every other place (maybe even more than that) was a foot massage/reflexology parlor. Penn and Teller's Bullshit would put this entire city out of business.
-Is the place where I got a Thai massage (not what you're thinking of... it was an actual massage, although they DID have places for the other kind if you wanted that.) It was BRUTAL. They did all this stuff where they iron the knots out of your lower back with their knees while ironing the knots out of your upper back with their elbows, which means all of the chick's weight is on your back. It actually hurt quite a bit but felt great afterwards. I told them about my Thai boxing experience and they were all like oooh cool and had actually heard of the master at the school in Pittsburgh I trained at. He's famous in Cambodia because he beat Eh Phutong, who is like the Cambodian version of  Mike Tyson. At the end of the massage they did all this crazy spine-flexibility stuff and it was nuts. It's hard to describe, but like google image search for some Thai massage stuff and you'll see basically what I mean.
-A horrible place to travel by cab... they can only pick up passengers at cab stands, and the lines are unbelievable. It takes forever, but the fares are low (to apologize?) I went 8km for 7 dollars. One plus is that they actually use meters, which is nice after 2 months of negotiated cab fares and all of their associated headaches.
-A horrible place to celebrate Halloween... since its Sunday, all the places closed early. For example, its only 11pm and I'm back here writing emails already. I did buy some cool stuff though.
-The place where I bought a shirt that says "Singapore is a Fine City" and has a little picture of all the things you'd get fined for doing.
-Is full of Chinese stuff, so I was hesitant to buy any of it since I'm going to real live China later. Tomorrow I'll go to "Little Thailand" and buy some Thai stuff since we're not actually going there.
-Had a couple of awesome Chinese Buddhist, Taoist, and Sikh temples that I stumbled upon while wandering around alone. I wandered around alone because I could... it was the first place since Cadiz and Sevilla where I felt safe enough to really just traipse around the whole city alone.
-I saw Singaporeans spitting, jaywalking, and littering! With these two eyes! They were BREAKING THEIR LAWS!!!