Latest impressions of S'pore: outstanding again, but . . .

JUST in case you haven't been subjected to my thoughts on Singapore before, I passed through in December 1963 - getting wrong impressions, of course, but vivid memories. They wouldn't let me lick my stamps at the General Post Office at Fullerton because of the cholera outbreak, and Change Alley was frightening.

I returned to stay in 1979, went elsewhere in 1997, but have been a part-time worker here every year since.

As anyone who has seen Singapore for more than a few years will tell, the chief thing you note on return is physical change. From my first office on Collyer Quay, I w…