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Raffles Hotel

Random Thoughts,

Singapore, the Sequel

Just over a year ago I sat in the bar of Singapore’s Raffles Hotel and reflected on visits to some of the poorer areas of Burma and Bangkok. Here’s the post if you want to read it.

In a few days it’s back to Singapore for another visit, and I can’t help but think how the reflections from the first trip have shaped my upcoming book. It was while sitting in the Writers Bar, idly jotting notes, when I wrote this:

But when we separate ourselves from the poor and live in this kind of opulence, we create the illusion