(1) What is the square meterage of your apartment? How many people live in it including you? Does it have a balcony? What's your view like? What floor are you on?

(2) What is Singapore like? Do the Chinese, Malaysian, Indian and Thai populations keep separate? What do you enjoy doing in your free time there? What unusual foods have you tried? Is it difficult to live in that happily authoritarian society? As the world gets crowded do you think more societies will have to become very-rule-bound like Singapore?

(3) Do you live in an Anglo-Saxon bubble? What's that like--living in a tiny community within a tiny community?

(4) Do you design automated systems to transport to factories somewhere else? Do you go to factories and figure out how to automate them (if so, do workers avoid eye contact with you)? How do you figure out how to automate a process?