It Might Be Giant But It Doesn’t Have Trika

I just realized how small Singapore is when I went to one of their supposedly biggest supermarket, Giant Hypermarket in Vivo City, and could not find ‘trika’ (or something like it. it’s a nice fragrant liquid sprayed onto your clothes during ironing). All the other products like laundry soap, cleaning liquid, etc, that they sell also give limited options of different brands, mostly made in Malaysia or Thailand. Meanwhile in Jakarta supermarket like Hero or Superindo, there’ll be more than five different local brands for just one product. And in the up-market supermarket like Ranch Market, there would be more, plus the imported ones.

The Straits Times two weeks ago reported that Singapore loses 1,000 capable people to other countries each year, most of them looking for …‘trika’ (kidding!), bigger economic opportunity.

So, you can see how small Singapore is that people have to look for trika in another country, let alone bigger economic opportunity.