The train

I gotta tell ya, they have something really great going on here. This train thing is amazing to me. While I have to walk a few blocks to the train, it only costs me sixty nine cents to get to work...really, I don't think I can start my car in Iowa for that! Anyway, today I saw a really cool thing. When you get off the train and start going above ground there are escalators to take you upwards. The station I get off on there are three escalators. Every morning there have been two going up and one going down. This morning and the huge mob of people were standing in line to get on the two escalators going up, all of a sudden the escalator that was going down changed directions. People ran over to the now empty escalator and away we went. As I pondered on this all day I realized someone, somewhere had to be watching to know that there was a bottleneck going on and knew to switch the escalator. Besides being very clean, they are very organized also!

I'm on my own in the office now. Bobby that was training me has left for the U.S. I've survived two days all by myself. Tomorrow is a holiday in Singapore, but we will still be open for trading, so I'll be working from home as no one would be in the office due to the holiday. I'll be logging on to work from home and monitoring things. I guess it really won't be any more quiet at home than it would be at the office...truly it is so quiet there most of the time!

I was talking to one of the people at the office today that is from Singapore and asked her what she would be doing on her holiday. She said "it's too hot to do anything" so she is staying home to play Mah Jong with friends. I thought it was just me that thought it was hot...but a local thinks it is hot. We talked a little and she started telling me things to go and do around Singapore and was surprised to find that I had ventured out on my own and had been to a lot of the places she mentioned. It's funny...I know we all take for granted the things that are easily accessible to us....and it's only when visitors ask questions do we realize we never do those things....I haven't been to the Botanical Gardens, the Zoo or an I Cubs game in Des Moines for a long time, but I would suggest that visitors do those things. Odd that. Guess I'll enjoy Singapore to the fullest and then when I come home I'll hopefully remember and learn to enjoy the things that are in my very own backyard!