It's a world away from carefully planned Asian cities like Singapore -- which makes it perfectly suited for visitors who don't need their lives hermetically sealed in air-conditioned shininess.

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Further, there still remains a substantial reservoir of suspicion as to how hermetically sealed the so-called anonymous intake is and how it will stand up to the test of time.

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At the same time, you know, I don't think of what I do - I don't do it in a hermetically sealed chamber.

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