My apologies, but Reader Request Week will be starting tomorrow instead of today. This afternoon and evening was spent marking papers (still have about 20 to go), and I just got off Skype with a long overdue convo with my parents, so I'm wiped.

However, here's a teaser, a single-serving Singapore Observation, Jonathan Carroll style...

46. They board the train at the Orchard MRT stop, tall, statuesque, one blonde and the other brunette. It would be easy to think of them as models, in Singapore for a photo shoot and returning from a high-priced consumer spending trip at Orchard Road, but this also makes a lot of assumptions that may not be true. Dressed casually both, though the blonde wears her shirt unbuttoned to her sternum, revealing the edge of a lacy pink bra. They speak English with Eastern European accents, possibly Russian, intensely involved in their conversation, paying no attention to the rest of the crowded train car. The other riders, however, male and female alike, cannot take their eyes off of the two young women, so bright do they shine.

(for jeffsoesbe)

More tomorrow!

Previous observations: 1-4, 5-8, 9-13, 14-17, 18-22, 23-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45