I was pondering Sentosa’s view of Malacca strait, and history of Singapore on the southernmost tip of continental Asia as a break-of-bulk and refueling port, when Georgei came up, a fencing coach from Hungary (who works there).
We discussed post-Soviet Russia (where he had also worked), women and children, international teaching and living, for a long time.
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Singapore was a British colony, but I had afternoon tea in a sequence: