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March 31, 2005

More Singapore

o my first night here I was jetlagged but still decided to go to a local movie theater to see the new Bruce Willis movie, Hostage (read the book...Robert Crais is a fine writer; check out his elvis Cole series).

And when I stepped up to the box office to buy a ticket, they had a computer screen flat on the counter looking up at me with a layout of the theater and asked me to select a seat. THAT'S COOL. Select your own seat to see a movie. Singaporeans love structure.

Along those lines, part of the previews was a little movie PSA (Public Service Announcement) that started off with a handsome man getting out of bed, putting on his shirt and leaving a lovely woman still lying partly under the covers. The cut to a Special Forces type military guy in green uniform, camouflage-streaked blackface, carrying a rifle and wearing electronics headgear. Then flash back to the man getting dressed, then cut to a family, then back to the military night scene, then a voiceover begins telling you how the Singapore Army protects you and gives you freedom to have a family and lay in bed in peace.

Tie that to the fact that every Singaporean male is required to have military experience before going into the private sector, and that helps explain some of the prevalent attachment to strucutre and hierarchy and non-matrixed authority in corporate groups.

Singapore is a singular city/country.

By the way, are we going to see a slew of April Fool blogs tomorrow?

*** All I want is a warm bed, a kind word, and ultimate power. Ashleigh Brilliant

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Posted by witnit at March 31, 2005 10:13 PM