Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / April 2008

> Here's the latest from the YH Board...Looks like the Bull Sheet is
> really getting DEEP over there...Kombat moving to Singapore...Howard
> has had a STROKE...Put on the Hip Waiters boys and girls and tighten
> your seat belt...Bwahahaha!
>
> From the YH-Knives Board...
>
> In rec-knives@yahoogroups.com.au, Greg Wormald <gwormald@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Steve,
>> Have you checked the carry laws in Singers yet?
>
> Singapore has some really Draconian carry laws, but I don't think they
> will affect me very much. How often do the police pat down a nicely
> dressed old man? At the most, if someone sees and reports something,
> the most that would happen is that it would be taken away. This is one
> of the reasons for ordering that Al Mar folder. It doesn't look
> threatening, doesn't imprint the pocket (as long as you don't use the
> clip...) and still does the work I need it to do. I'll carry a
> Leatherman 'Wave' when I'm shooting. No problem there. When I travel
> out of the country (as I'll be doing often,) I leave it behind and put
> a Spyderco in my suitcase unless they send me to some more forbidding
> locations. I'm pretty sure that if they do, my expense account will
> cover what ever I feel the need to pick up on location.
>
>> When do you make the
>> big move?
>
> Kombat wrote....
>
> ****The building is brand new and our place will be ready for us by
> the
> end of June. The company has set us up in a very nice condo
> overlooking the Clark Quay restaurant/entertainment district, high
> enough up so it's quiet, and with views to the south over Sentosa and
> to the east over the downtown financial district. We can see ocean
> from two different sides! We can't see mountains as we do here, but
> the view there is spectacular in a different way. We went down to look
> at it a few weeks ago, and it's as close to perfect as anyone could
> ask for. We are even allowed to bring our cat!! The visas have already
> come through for both of us, thanks to the company's legal department,
> (the cat's permission will take another two months,) so all that's
> left is finishing up a few remaining client shoots, shutting down
> business here, and we're on our way.
>
>> And what are you going to do about your sword collection? Can you
> take
>> them? If you don't want to ship them back to the States, you could
>> send them to me for safe keeping :)
>
> Thanks for the offer. I appreciate it. However, I can bring the
> antique collectibles, but I do have to register them. I will have to
> get rid of my 'sword cane' collection as there is no provision under
> Singaporean law for possession of them, even registered. Fortunately,
> none of them are particularly valuable, and I bought them more for
> novelty than functionality. I don't think I paid more than a few
> dollars for any of them, and most have cheap steel or 'pot metal'
> blades. The collectibles, on the other hand, are worth the effort of
> registering. If you want the sword canes lemme know. Otherwise I'm
> just going to throw them out. As I said, they aren't worth anything
> more than 'toy' appeal.
>
> As the man once said; 'advertising pays just so long as they spell
> your name correctly!' I had a lot of help!!  ROTFL! :o)
>
> Steve Kramer
> Chiang Mai, Thailand