For last week’s release of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue2011, the mag crated up and shipped out a bunch of fresh meat to Singapore (Shannan Click, Kenza Fourati, Izabel Goulart, namely — all SI rookies). They were beyond hot, sure, but it’s not like the city/island/nation doesn’t have some native homegrown talent of its own. See exhibit A, above: Much like Japan, Singapore is quite obsessed with drift racing thanks to its winding, urban streets. And where’s there’s drifting, there are drift groupies — this one was working Singapore’s F1 Pit Building during the Formula Drift.
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Checker out: SIngapore Formula Drift is a spectator sport, indeed.
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What passes for a blonde bombshell in this otherwise homogenously dark-haired part of the world — she’s partying at City Alive!, the county’s largest street dancing party.
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Rocking a perfect biological soup of Thai, Portuguese and Peranakan DNA, curvaceous Vernetta Lopez is one of Singapore’s most famous radio DJs turned actresses; the Robin Ophelia Quivers of SE Asia, you might say. Here she is performing during the Singapore National Day Parade.
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Boat watching down by the Singapore River.
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