LOOKING BACK ... A. MEMOIR!

Year 1959: Singapore got its independence from Britain. Singapore wanted to be with Malaysia, but Malaysia didn’t want them and got them out of the  Federation of Malaya  in 1965. That day Former Prime Minister of Singapore  Lee Kuan Yew  couldn’t control his tears. He can’t digest the insult of getting kicked out of Malaysia.  I was thinking of Singapore history when visiting Singapore in 1986 on my    return from Japan.   Indian economy was not open then for foreign goods like now. I had a big laundry list for purchase in Japan for my family and close relatives. We found that it was so expensive to buy those goods in Japan. So, to do the shopping we rerouted the return ticket via Singapore for 3 days of which one day reserved exclusive for shopping. We chose a hotel for stay so close to Serangoon street so that we can make many shopping trips in that reserved one day! As we came to the hotel and switched on the TV, I could listen to Tamil N...

    Rajini Japanese Fan in Auto Yaskawa uniform Top of Tokyo Tower Thalaiva In front of Monastery Selfie in the lake with Bagi Jazz in Street Rajini Fans Ginza  Buddha Statue   JAPAN LOVE MY TOKY0(Vol 10) Part-2 EXPERIENCE AT TOKYO DOWN MEMORY LANE! Continued from Part-1 (Vol 09) Japan Love my Tokyo Japan and Onsen experience: We understood the dilemma of our Japanese colleagues why they preferred us to stay in the hotel and not their company dorm. The Japanese take bath before going to bed through the community bath system called onsen which provide natural hot spring water where everybody is in in the big pool naked. The dorm has only this arrangement. I initially thought of avoiding by taking bath in the same pool early morning. But no fresh water comes during the day in the pool. When you are in Rome you had to be a Roman and I became a Roman!     I was extremely self-conscious the first time to be naked in front of strangers. I also...