Journey through the slums of Singapore

Hidden in an alley somewhere in this clean efficient country called Singapore is a slightly down-trodden but bustlingly busy place called Geylang. If you are sick and tired of the country's cleanliness and efficiency and want to see a different side of the country, go to none other than Geylang where people of different colored hair and skin gather to check out what the ladies there have to offer. And boy was I surprised to see how pretty, slim and sexy those ladies who are parading themselves all along the slums they call Geylang. Most of them are these pretty, young, nubile thing, some look as though they just came out from school, trying to make a living for themselves.

To me, it was like a beauty pageant, in fact even better than beauty pageant as the girls are so gorgeous they can beat some of the pageant participants flat. Naughty me stopped at the corner, wanting to snap some photos of the beautifully seductive gals and got scolded by one of the pimps. And even more suprising, the pimp was so well-educted, he spoke to me in fluent english, a little on the angry side but still English, not Singlish. It's a good thing he did not take my camera away or else it will be war between the Princess and the Pimp.

Girls were dressed as little to be as exposed as possible. If you think doing a business is competitive, try prostituting. With the huge arrays of girls in the tiniest skirts and large over-blown boobs, the guys with high libidos are spoilt for choice. The prices of some of them can go up to $200 per session of course, not all pocketed by the gals who have to do all the hard and dirty work but also the agent who brought them into the country in the first place. It's a tough life but interesting for me to watch from afar how the interested guys bargined for their best prize and price. This could be the only place you can see a guy bargaining so hard.

There were also parlours where the doors are transparent and the entrance is resort-like, attracting guys who are too shy to bargain outside but instead prefer to go into the comforts of a motel to select the girl they like from a panel displayed on a tv screen. The selected girl can then do whatever the master orders in the comfort of the same room, charged at maybe $20 per hour. Imagine the time limit they have if they are stingy!

Well, it was a night well-spent seeing a different side of SG after seeing the elegant and nouveau side for so long. And don't get me wrong, I didn’t end the night checking out any more than the girls. ;)