红毛神话 - debunking the myths
1) Everyone here is football crazy... My Brother is still the most passionate lah. Except for the military and athletes in the ocuntyr, I can safely say that nobody else bothers to keep fit here. Feel the pudginess of stomachs as you squeeze through buses with some of the most narrow aisle! Sad to say, People who plays football here are a minority and watching matches in pubs is so lonely and depressing. This brings us to...
2) Their football is damn 神! Any Tom can thrash us combined together... Played a few times and still looking for my match...
3) UK girls are damn ugly. To be fair, I only appreciate girls of asian cultural background where character, demureness, witty and cute are desirable qualities. But my friends around me do get honkie tonkied by the locals here.
4) The engineers here are definitely better. Be confident of yourself, my fellow singaporeans. You will be surprised how the students and lecturers here holds NUS and NTU engineering in high regards. Apart from this, there are many many aspects of national infrastructure where we pawn first-world countries outright. Shake yourselves free of the rusting colonial chains. (Makes one suspect if Singapore seebay yao-gui, wants all the benefits of a developing country.) Of course, don't overdo it and become a ...
5) Racist!... No(1) la(3)! Minus the fact that this KNN bus driver tries to run me over when I demanded that I board the bus by standing right in the bus' track, most of them are pretty friendly.
One last thing: Once you fit yourselves into shoes as a minority, you will see from a perspective where looking down on other races is indeed pointless and immature. Ask yourselves, how is a PRC, Hongkie, or for that matter, a Bangla different from us?
What occupies our mind when we are 20 yrs old? Were you worrying about food and seriously considering taking a step half a continent away - to pick up the worst job with the worst pay and suffering the worst treatment, all while forfeiting your entire youth in the process?
Perhaps being privileged is the only thing that sets us apart from other races in Singapore.
[Ang Siong says: I am a 100% Singaporean but I am also a 3rd generation PRC (My grandfather is from China) and I am sure my late grandfather has had his share of abuses when he first migrated here. He belongs to the generation that paved the platform for us to live above the rest around us AND he is a PRC.]
2) Their football is damn 神! Any Tom can thrash us combined together... Played a few times and still looking for my match...
3) UK girls are damn ugly. To be fair, I only appreciate girls of asian cultural background where character, demureness, witty and cute are desirable qualities. But my friends around me do get honkie tonkied by the locals here.
4) The engineers here are definitely better. Be confident of yourself, my fellow singaporeans. You will be surprised how the students and lecturers here holds NUS and NTU engineering in high regards. Apart from this, there are many many aspects of national infrastructure where we pawn first-world countries outright. Shake yourselves free of the rusting colonial chains. (Makes one suspect if Singapore seebay yao-gui, wants all the benefits of a developing country.) Of course, don't overdo it and become a ...
5) Racist!... No(1) la(3)! Minus the fact that this KNN bus driver tries to run me over when I demanded that I board the bus by standing right in the bus' track, most of them are pretty friendly.
One last thing: Once you fit yourselves into shoes as a minority, you will see from a perspective where looking down on other races is indeed pointless and immature. Ask yourselves, how is a PRC, Hongkie, or for that matter, a Bangla different from us?
What occupies our mind when we are 20 yrs old? Were you worrying about food and seriously considering taking a step half a continent away - to pick up the worst job with the worst pay and suffering the worst treatment, all while forfeiting your entire youth in the process?
Perhaps being privileged is the only thing that sets us apart from other races in Singapore.
[Ang Siong says: I am a 100% Singaporean but I am also a 3rd generation PRC (My grandfather is from China) and I am sure my late grandfather has had his share of abuses when he first migrated here. He belongs to the generation that paved the platform for us to live above the rest around us AND he is a PRC.]
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