[Review] Return to a sexy island

Synopsis:
Singapore got sexy and the country’s best-selling author got jealous. After five years chasing echidnas and platypuses in Australia, Neil Humphreys returns to Singapore to see if the rumours are true about the island’s newfound sexiness.

This is the first time I read a book written by Neil Humphreys but I had enjoyed his witty, and often tongue-in-cheek, weekly commentaries in Today. Thus when I chanced upon his book in the library, I hesitated no further in checking it out.

Written in his trademark style which many in Singapore had come to love this "ang-moh" for, Neil covers the new aspects of Singapore which did not exist when he left this island for the bigger pastures of Australia. I had to stop myself from laughing out loud on a crowded morning MRT commute on his experience at Chek Jawa, and seething at the social inequality of the Singapore Freeport.

Neil managed to cover more of new Singapore in a single book than I did in 30 years in Singapore. Highly recommended to any armchair/air-con bound Singaporean who would like to learn more about recent developments in Singapore in the last decade, ladled with copious amounts of humor.

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