Singapore. The good, including over-the-top laundry service that sends a text message when your garments are ready for collection.
Honorable mention goes out to the coffee shop at Sixth Avenue where my wife left her handbag on Sunday, being Singapore we went back twenty minutes later and it had been handed in, wallet, cash and cards intact, for collection. Try doing that in Sydney, London, or pretty much any other major city in the World without having to spend the next few hours cancelling and replacing credit cards.
The bad, and to quote The Joker from the original Batman "can someone tell me what kind of a World we live in... [where grown women sign up for a cartoon cat-themed fun run?]. I'm talking about the Hello Kitty Run of course, and word is it sold out in an hour. Not sure if there's any truth to those rumours, but wouldn't be the least bit surprised based on how quickly some of the McDonald's happy meals have sold out in this part of the world.
The ugly: Starhubs, one of the worst companies ever known to man. Where advertised internet speeds actually apply to the whole building, and if there are sixty apartments trying to download something at the same time, watching the screen feels like watching a picture download pixel-by-pixel used to in the late 1990's. On a brighter note, we're looking to move to another apartment soon, which will be the perfect excuse to give Starhub internet the big cannot, and move onto a bigger & better service that actually does what it says on the tin. Bring it on. Having a dedicated VPN will also mean we can drastically downsize on the Starhub tv networks including the woeful HBO, instead being able to watch ABC iView from Australia, along with the wonderful services offered by Channel 4 and the BBC in the UK. With these services along with the likes of Netflix increasingly catching on, companies that treat their customers like Starhub are about to become dinosaurs.
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