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Singapore lets its hair down

I pick up a tourist brochure as soon as I arrive in the leafy metropolis and read that Old Parliament House is home now to "new age curries" and the trendiest restaurants of the moment (Graze and One Rochester) are in the old British army barracks of Rochester Park, in what is now a hi-tech district called one-north.

The Convent of the Holy Jesus, a school for girls, has been restyled Chijmes and serves up Kahlua-spiked tiramisu.

Even table-top dancing and bungy jumping have been made legal in a city that only two years earlier banned Cosmopolitan magazine and Sex and the City.

The effect is uncannily like that in the classic movie scene: a prim, law-abiding young lady takes off her glasses, shakes loose her hair and shows us what she's been made of all along.

Singapore may not be the wildest place in the world, but these days, as I return to it once or twice a year, I can't help feeling that makeovers are its latest love. Connaught and Havelock, Draycott and Cairnhill - the sonorous old British names still toll above the flower-filled roads cutting through parks and over the spicy backstreets, but what fill those same streets more and more seem to be "royal Thai spas", collagen parlours and bust-enhancement centres that give a curious literalism to the sense of a place that is redoing itself in styles as bold as its colours, as international as its markets and as seductive as its tropical air.

Earlier this year, as I wander around the huge Marina Bay Sands casino and adjoining mall, I wonder if the place that has always seemed the counter-Las Vegas, an artificial city committed to learning and to discipline, has now done a dramatic U-turn.

Singapore and its four million people have long been a handy way of taking the measure of Asia, or at least its dreams. For almost 150 years it was, of course, the classic British port, founded by Stamford Raffles, rich with green lawns and tropical law courts, and carefully segregating its races into the areas now known as Chinatown, Little India and Arab Street.

In the last three decades of the past century it stood, high and shining, for the gleaming but often repressive transnational city of the moment.

Now, however, having opened up to the cultural globe while still preserving what it calls "Asian values", and having decided, it seems, that it has to keep up with the Bangkoks and Shanghais of the world, it seems to be turning into a model of the Asian city of a very new kind of future.

Creative and FREE Invitation Bridal Shower - bridal-shower-ideas

Download our image by right-clicking  on the image, and choosing Save Picture As. Save image to C:\Images folder. Insert your chosen bridal shower invitation in a blank Microsoft Word document. You can do this by choosing Insert > From File  and then browsing to C:\Images and choosing the right invitation image. Insert a text box by choosing Insert > Textbox > Horizontal. A text box should appear in your document. Double click on the text box and ensure that in the Colors and Lines tab, the Fill-Color section says No Fill and Lines-Color section says No Lines. You can then move the text box such that it overlaps the image you inserted before. Just move the text box to the invitation field, click on the text box, and type in your details. Feel free to customize your font type, size and color. Tips: You can use one text box per invitation field (eg. One for date, another for the time field). This will make it way easier for you to align your text to the image text. Once the necessary fields are filled up,  you can just highlight the image plus your text and make another copy in the same document. In this manner, you can print the document with two invitations, instead of just one. Or if you would rather email this invitation to your friends, just copy image + text to Photoshop or your preferred image editor and save it as JPEG. Your invitation is now ready to be emailed!

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