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Little Women's Singapore Stopover

When watching the couple of  Little Women  episodes set in Singapore, I was a little amused about Singapore being used as a money stopover.  Little did I know then that it was a prelude to a real money laundering case that broke into the news!  Did the producers know something about feeding ill-gotten gains here that many Singaporeans weren’t aware of?! (This was my first time seeing our $1000 notes!)   Generally, I found the Singapore episodes rather funny.  I could not help laughing when Adrian Pang explained the Fullerton Hotel’s orchid suite and such in his pseudo ang moh accent.  I hope Koreans know that most of us don’t speak like that.  And why is Bridget Fernandez a “Mrs Foster”?  It would have been better to give her a more typical Eurasian name, no?  For example, she could be Mrs de Souza, Paglar, Pereira… or Fernandez.  I liked how Bridget tried saying “Mr Choi” in a Korean way, t...