I first corresponded with David Lin on the Net after reading his "Moving to Singapore" series. I met him in person in Singapore in 1994 when I had a summer job there. I found out much later that in fact he is a friend of a friend of mine. Talk about six degrees of separation; need only two here. David also wrote a few articles under the title "Back to the Future" on his observations of the Singaporean way of life.
Before the advant of free Internet web hosting, I used my account at MIT to house David's stories. He has since gotten his own webpage. Still, I am reproducing the content here for comparison with what I had to say about Singapore in "Different Prices to Pay", which you may find to be not quite similar to David's opinion.