Australian writer of Montenegrin descent en route to a polyglot European port at the head of the Adriatic mid-2011 shipwrecks instead on the SE Asian Equator. 12, 36, 48…80, 90++ months passage out awaited. Scribble all the while. By some process stranger than fiction, a role as an interpreter of Islam develops; Buddhism & even Hinduism. (Long story.)
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Strangers on a Train
Proud to be part of
Singapore for 5 years.
CIMB Bank celebrating anniversary with 5 surprises:
vouchers, specials on loans, rebates, &etc.
Full page graphic of crowded train carriage pulling into Raffles station, ten potential customers bunched around the elephant in the room, the giant, almighty $.
Eight of the ten heads are bent onto their screens; another is talking on his phone; number ten must be counted as indeterminate. (Two partly obscured unable to be positively included.) No exaggeration whatever: advertising carefully tailored to the marketplace. (The buses favoured by the uncles and aunties are a good deal better, but those commuters are not potential customers.)
Straits Times 19 Sept. 2014 p. A 15
NB. No "Climb upon the gravy train"; GET ON THIS etc. Simple blown-up graphic a la Roy Lichtenstein, minus the inspiration.
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