The Story of Singapore

We went on a little ride on the 'Singapore Flyer,' a rather overpriced ferris wheel where you spend roughly 15 minutes in the air, listening to an informative audio tape and looking at the city from about 9,000 miles up. (That may be an exaggeration, but since everything is metric here I never really have a clear handle on measurement.) It was actually quite fascinating, plus they told the story of the island...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a young Malaysian king who looked much like a lion. His name was How Much. He loved his kingdom in Malaysia, but found that he was drawn to the sea. One afternoon, he headed out to get some sun on the shoreline, where he met a lovely mermaid, named Ariel. She had some sort of curse where she could not speak, so he thought 'Yay! Perfect woman!' They soon got married and in due course Ariel gave birth to three murmurs, Larry, Curly and Moe. The murmurs were trouble from the start, and as teens caused some sort of big ruckus during their annual vacation to the shore - all the household goods from the rented condo were tossed into the sea, including How Much's crown. How Much and Ariel never had a clear idea what happened, since they could not ever get one shred of truth from any of the three boys. Without the crown as proof of residence they couldn't go back to their Malaysian suburb, so they crossed the divide into Singapore, where How Much said 'Plenty of port-o-lets here! This place is perfect!' They stuck around, and How Much created a financial mega-tropolis in order to have the cash necessary to keep his rotten kids out of the Slammer.

At least that's the story the way I remember it...come see us and I will take you on the Flyer and you can listen for yourself....