This is so goddarn true!

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YOU'RE KIDDING ME, RIGHT?

From Yahoo News...

Singapore has emerged second for nightlife and dining in the second annual Country Brand Index 2006. Singapore was unranked in the previous survey but it now beats countries such as the United States, UK and Thailand.

The Country Brand Index is developed by FutureBrand, a global brand consultancy, in conjunction with the public relations firm Weber Shandwick's Global Travel Practice. Global Travel Practice is a global study of more than 1,500 international travellers, travel industry experts and hospitality professionals and it examines how countries can be branded and ranked according to key criteria.

My question is... who in blue hell are the "1,500 travellers" that gave the Singapore nightlife the thumbs up when 80% of the "clubs" here continue to cater to bad mainstream / commercial music tastes? How can our nightlife be more vibrant than those in Europe? Hell, even our seedy scene is nothing compared to that in Amsterdam. You're telling me that versus cities that "never sleep" like Germany, Japan and Hong Kong, we came up tops when clubs here empty out generally after 3am and cabs still go into hiding before the midnight charge kicks in. Food and dining, we kinda rock, that we admit. But what nightlife where they exactly referring to? The Mandai Zoo Night Safari, I presume?

Nothing is funnier than to hear a Singapore chinese boy proclaiming that he so digs where Tupac is coming from when he has never gone through the ghetto poverty, struggles and racism and oppression. What cracks me up is to hear the current generation of youngster referring to their "significant" other as "my boo". People, act your goddamn colour! Unless you belong to the elite American black-boys' club, stop trying to dress "hip hop" and speaking in "thug lingo". You look like a bloody yellow banana trying to be black.

So in a country where the authorities "advise" Slayer to tone down their "satanic persona" during their recent concert here, we're actually rulin'? So we are finally hip now? If you say so. The rest of us know better. Not that it's THAT a boring island... just that I can easily name TEN other cities that definitely have more "exciting" nightlife than dear old SingaBore.

Seriously, when "live" entertainment here means a cheesy foreign band doing cover versions and crappy choreography... that scored high in the survey? Just because some Filipino band can sing in Cantonese, that's supposed to be groundbreaking? Forgive me, really... what were the "key criterias" that were examined?

Statistics. Funny thing, isn't it?