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Yesterday all of us Hi-5 ‘ers landed in Singapore once agin. I always have fun here, the food is off the hook so is the shopping but there is also something very special about this country.

Special in the way that there wouldn’t be many places in the world where such a melting pot of cultures collide in such a small geographical place.
Not surprising I guess, given it’s place on the world map but also it’s constant history of international trade.

That’s not to say that we don’t have enough cultural cross over in Australia, we do. It’s just that the Australian nation lives on the worlds biggest island thousands of kilometers wide and Singapore is probably one of the smallest island nations in which I can catch a taxi from one side to the other and probably pay less than $80.00 Sing. So the cultural crossovers here feel far more dramatic.

I love when cultures meld together. Meld together to form fusions, fusions of food, fusions of architecture, fusions of music.

They say music is the international language, every culture in the world has a form of it.

Here is a piece of music that has been dear to my heart for years now. I feel it is a bit like a musical version of Singapore, a fusion of the music from Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) and Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn (Nephew of one of the best Pakistani musicians of all time, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn.)

A fusion of cultures.

Thoughts and Good Vibes to ALL!
Tim Maddren