How many Singapores to go?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (343824)
Rockingham, Australia
January 19, 2025 6:35pm CST
I mentioned couch-surfing in a recent post and was reminded of two people we hosted who were from Singapore. At that stage, they hadn’t done much travelling and they were very befuddled with our distances.
We would be driving from A to B and they would ask how many miles was it. If it were more than a handful of miles, they couldn’t really comprehend it and we took to saying it was maybe ‘one Singapore’.
Singapore is a very small country, measuring 50 kilometres (31 mi) from east to west and 27 kilometres (17 mi) from north to south. So, to go to our home town from where we were living was about 3 Singapores or 150 kms. It worked at the time.
The photo is of a Singaporean sculpture I really liked. There were more, all beautifully crafted.
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@rebelann (113143)
• El Paso, Texas
20h
Some really detailed features on those kids, amazing how the artist did that.
What an interesting concept. I wonder how the military people that came here from countries like Holland, Germany or Japan figured the distance, Texas is larger than any of those countries and I imagine some of your states are larger than them as well.
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@FourWalls (70142)
• United States
19h
Great sculpture! I will hopefully be traveling a few hundred Singapores from here soon. 
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@GardenGerty (161594)
• United States
3h
When my kids were little and I would want to convey the length of time to do something or get somewhere it was "about one cartoon", back when they were half hour shows. I think that was clever of you to use this concept to help them.
@DaddyEvil (139073)
• United States
20h
I'm sure a lot of people from smaller countries don't understand just how much room there is in large countries. And how much driving has to be done just to get somewhere else.
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@JudyEv (343824)
• Rockingham, Australia
14h
That's very true. Our son was involved with an Irish group once and the agent wanted them to travel from Albany to Kalgoorlie then back to Esperance for back-to-back gigs. It was just really stupid. He obviously had no idea about our geography and hadn't bothered to check.
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@DaddyEvil (139073)
• United States
14h
@JudyEv I suppose that means they didn't make the back-to-back gigs? 
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@JudyEv (343824)
• Rockingham, Australia
12h
@DaddyEvil They switched dates around to something achievable.
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@RasmaSandra (81713)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
37m
I can understand how the US distances would confuse them, Luckily now we can travel just about anywhere through the Internet,
@Beestring (14798)
• Hong Kong
17h
Nice sculptures. I've been to Singapore a few time. Nice city.
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