Bill Price

The project needed to finalise the details of the programme for our civil servants in their two week programme at the Singapore Civil Service College, so I went to meet the executives of the International Department on 1^st December.Marjorie volunteered to carry the bags, so I booked us into the Meritus Negara Hotel, just off Orchard Road.In order to avoid arriving at 6 in the morning, and going to a meeting at nine, we went by Thai Airlines to Bangkok, and got the Singapore Airlines connection from there to Changi. Easy taxi ride to the hotel, which kindly upgraded us to an executive suite and made us very welcome. There is a nice bar with live music, and a delightful buffet room for breakfast and lunch.In our free time, we went to the Marriott pavement restaurant, a street McDonalds, Jason’s Supermarket (for wine of course), the Changi Museum and a housing development called Bopines, which gave me an idea for our civil servants. More anon.