A brief Singapore uneducated view

Fantastic City View

This is the first initial posting I'm doing for my blog "Wellivers Travels", as I prepare for an adventure and work experience in Singapore beginning in October. These are various pictures of Singapore, which at this point, looks like the amazing city of the future I hear from friends who have visited.

Located just below Malaysia

 As I prepare for an extended work visit to Singapore and a new show start up, I'm already beginning to anticipate the lifestyle, action and energy that is modern Singapore.

Looking up the river towards town

A nation about the size of Manhattan , this country has arisen from post World War II as a disjointed and backwater country of small islands with shifting allegiances to the British Empire, Japan and China, to an independent and dynamic global leader as a  financial center, architectural leader, appreciated for its religious tolerance and embracing cultures from all corners of the earth.

The food seems to be the greatest sense of national pride, ahead of even Singapore's' propensity for building air conditioned shopping malls,  A virtual cornucopia of "hawker" eating facilities (groupings of inexpensive and delicious eating stands) and upscale restaurants, Singaporeans seem to relish (no pun) a heightened ability to explore and devour some of the worlds most diverse and inventive culinary delights. Even Wolfgang Puck has a restaurant.


This is a city I expect to find both intriguing and guarded.  To attain its substantial successful rankings in the world, Singapore continues to oversees it's society in ways an American may find repressive or controlling.  There are rules which differ from our cities and towns.  But welcome to the world. Part of global traveling is understanding what makes each country succeed or fail.

The obvious trade off for a stricter hand, is the magnificence of what this country has become.  It is the diamond of Southeast Asia and I look forward to absorbing as much of its gestalt as possible over the next several months. Any travel book will be overflowing with places, ideas and suggestions.

Performing Arts Center

My role will be serving alongside the official production group preparing a nightly live magazine show touching on all varieties of subjects and topics pertinent to Singapore.  Working closely with the primary English speaking television network, I no doubt will learn a thorough lesson in disseminating the appropriate and approved information for this country of over 5 million people.

My goal is to send along and update this blog to my special friends and family and attempt to do justice to the experience of living an extended tour of duty in an area of the world I have never visited. Along with pictures and short video clips, I will do my best at keeping you informed and abreast of Wellivers Travels.