Singapore

How about a thanks, eh? The extra info on other matters is out of concern and human kindness to a lost soul who at first seems to want to buy chewing-gum in a 7-11 and then changed to "therapeutical" gum (and now chewing in complete privacy)... and appears confused on personal consumption and importing for commercial usage.

I think you are the confused one, nyamukhunter... As for myself, I have never been a "lost soul" in my life... Everywhere in the world you can buy therapeutical gum in any 7 Eleven store/supermarket/pharmacy/you name it...
I assume Singapore is the only exception!

well, good luck to your trip to Sing... and don't get too confuse and lost on legal matters on desperately staying out of jail and don't generalised stores everywhere in the the world as if you been to all 7-11s on the planet, eh.

#22, what are you ravign on about?

sound like YOU need nicotine.

hahaha

think of singapore as a huge performance art stage
how far can you push
without going over the edge

my new favourite piece now is the 'official' flirting point
located right outside the singapore art musuem
by local arts group, Vertical Submarine
has to be seen and experienced to be believed
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_475665.html

hootie

Talking about arts, can anyone recommend a good shop where I can buy Chinese classical music? I mean REAL Chinese classical music, not the commercial instrumental stuff you can buy everywhere in Asia... I bought two wonderful CDs in Taipei last year, but I must have listened to them 50 times by now... Hopefully I can find something new in Singapore!

chinatown now is a bit dodgy.
you can find it but its harder

i can recommend some of the shops on the ground floor of bras basah complex
http://bras-basah-complex.com.sg/bbc/2_shops/en_level.asp?sel=01
they're quite old school. so they might be wat you want

there's also a new age-y joint there
http://www.awarenessplace.com/

hootie

Chinese music?

save yourself the money. buy a cat and strangle it.

Thanks, hootie. And how about good bookshops?...
BTW, I'm a big cat-lover, so strangling a cat is out of the question... I'd be happy to strangle a few stray dogs instead... but they're too dirty...

Hi sujata1983

Here's the official stance from the Singapore Customs:

http://www.customs.gov.sg/leftNav/trav/Dutiable<i>Controlled+and+Prohibited</i>Goods.htm

I took a school group back through the Johor-Tuas checkpoint a couple of years back. A few students had packs of gums stashed in their pockets, bags, etc. The customs officer stopped them and got them to empty the stuff into a trash bag. Our group was held back a good one hour.