You should look into one of these before you close the thread:

http://www.hovding.com/en/how_it_works/

No helmet but apparently still some safety benefits. Of course, you'll look like a swedish chick but that's not all bad.

Good luck out there - Singaporean drivers are full blown idiots. The only two times in my life I have been hit by a car (once walking in a crosswalk, the other while cycling and BOTH times I was completely obeying the rules of the road) were in Singapore.