1. Normally $1,300, the United Airlines flight was free with the 60,000 airline miles I amassed in the last year.
2. As the best man at a wedding here in December, I got an offer to stay with the bride's family (to whom I am very grateful).
3. The bride's sister, Alina, is a close friend
4. My U.S. dollars go a long way; living and eating is cheap.
5. After college graduation, everyone goes to Europe. Who wants to be everyone?
6. I am in an Asian food stage, particularly Indian and Singapore has it all.
7. An American visitor communicates with locals easily since English is the national language.
8. Singapore is a great base for visiting South East Asian countries because of its location.
9. Singapore is very far from friends and relatives.
10. This country is one big shopping mall and I can find my clothes size because Asians are short, too.

What do you think? Were those reasons enough to go? I am definitely not regretting it so far.
     Also, I updated my old Lehigh University web site to inform visitors of elan.org. I also made a copy at elan.org for posterity since Lehigh will delete my account in a few months.
     In addition, this site was down a few days ago when my web hosting provider changed their provider. Visitors should find this site more responsive now.

- Elan

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