Worlds apart - captured in real time

EVER wondered how life would be different on "the other side" of the world? Or what someone else would be doing, in a place that's really completely at the other end of the world from Singapore?

Artist Chen Sai Hua Kuan wondered that, and in 2012, he got into a plane and flew all the way to Ecuador, which - theoretically, if you drilled a hole through the ground from Singapore and straight across the globe, that's the country you'd end up in.

Naturally, Sai, as he's known, did his longitude and latitude research before he left, and got his GPS coordinates sorted out so that he could be as close as possible to a place that was opposite to Singapore. "But the whole idea for me was that as a kid, I'd always wanted to know what happens on the other side of the world. Well, I found out that the Amazon forest is directly at the opposite end of the globe from Singapore, in Ecuador!"