Read the excerpt below and my personal story while in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
” By now, it should not come as a surprise that Singapore typically\u00a0crushes the competition<\/a>\u00a0in many world\u00a0rankings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n And so it did, in a recent list of best roads<\/a> around the world, where Singapore came in\u00a0\u2014 you guessed it \u2014 first.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u00a0scored 9.44 over 10 points in terms of its road quality<\/a>\u00a0in a global study by Zutobi, which also took into account the number of road deaths and the relative size of the road network.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was visiting Singapore for about a month. My father’s grave was being reinterred from the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery<\/a> that was supposedly for the expansion of the Tengah Airbase.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I had left Singapore in 1975 and felt like I needed to show support to my family who had always taken care of family affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the entire month that I was in Singapore, I travelled all over the island. We travelled on roads, highways, alley ways, and side streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There was not a single pothole encountered during my stay in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We finally landed home in Oahu. As the airplane was taxi-ing to the terminal at the Honolulu International airport, the announcement came from the pilot came on: <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Ladies and Gentlemen<\/em>, we apologize. There will be a 2-minute delay as there is a pot-hole in front of us. The plane is being towed to the terminal.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My husband and I looked at each other and laughed upon hearing that announcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome back to Hawaii! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Land of the potholes, even on the airport grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read the excerpt below and my personal story while in Singapore. ” By now, it should not come as a surprise that Singapore typically\u00a0crushes the competition\u00a0in many world\u00a0rankings. And so it did, in a recent list of best roads around the world, where Singapore came in\u00a0\u2014 you guessed it \u2014 first. It\u00a0scored 9.44 over 10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,8,517,369,516,446],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hawaii","tag-honolulu","tag-honolulu-airport","tag-potholes","tag-roads","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}