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Finding Truth in *Odd* Claims
By philobean | August 22, 2007
Walking along the brick path along the foot of Rasa Sentosa Resort’s main building, find your way toward the wall climbing area and you’d eventually come across a star-like marker on the ground. The marker will read something to the effect of “this is the southern most point of Southeast Asia”. That startles me a bit. Isn’t the southern most point in Southeast Asia somewhere in Indonesia?
Benefit of the doubt, maybe they know something I don’t. Fine. So, I continue on my tour of Singapore’s Sentosa Island. Not long thereafter, I find another marker (no where near Rasa Sentosa but also on Sentosa Island) claiming the path of land on which it stands to be the “southern most point of continental Asia”. Okay, admittedly that may be true. (After all, the southern most point of continental Asia is definitely in Singapore. That it’s this point or somewhere close by isn’t of much significance.) But consider this: assuming that the southern most points of Southeast Asia and continental Asia are in Singapore, won’t these points be necessarily one and the same? Can one path of land (herein known as Singapore) have more than one “southern most point”?
Claims, claims, claims: even in Singapore (where reliability is taken seriously), claims still can’t be trusted without a second thought. I wonder who the marker-makers thought they’d fool by that stunt? What a myopic move indeed.
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August 26th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Well most touristy spots tend to make claims. This is no different in any other place around the world. World’s Biggest Donut, World’s Biggest Chickens. What makes Singapore different?