%%- I still remember what i wrote here a year ago on Moon Festival day. Shoot, time flies. When you're in your teens, you want time to go faster. When you're older, you want time to slow down and not go past you so fast. %%- So she wrote to me, from Mongolia. The empire that once ruled China and parts of Russia and Eastern Europe 600 hundred years ago, is today an underdeveloped place. But with it's backwardness, it's preserved some of the things that are long gone in industrialized nations. %%- In many surveys, Vancouver, Aukland, Sydney and Geneva are the best places to live and Singapore is the only Asian city among the top 10. In some new survey, S'pore was ranked 45th, with Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing among the bottom 10. The top ones are in Scandinavian countries that are freezing cold with high tax an suicide rate. Living in Norway? No way. Give me a break.