“MY life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,” observed Carole King in her immortal 1971 album Tapestry.
But what was observed last week in the island-republic of Singapore was neither wealthy nor noble. It was more like a tapirstry, a Malayan tapir spotted grumpily trotting alongside a metal fence in Changi in the wee hours of a Friday morning made too exciting for the citizen who spotted it because he thought it was an alien from outer space.
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