We all know that there are many, and i really mean MANY, as many as 1/4 of the people here in Singapore are foreigners.
China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thai, Indians, Caucasians...
Every now and then we will chance upon the unsightly act done by one of those mentioned. I don't know about you guys, but i like to be fair. And by fair, i mean i am not quick to generalize people purely based on the black sheeps that are among them.
1) Spitting.
I don't know what is wrong with these people, but obviously spitting is WRONG. Its not purely just Singapore's culture that teaches us Spitting is wrong. Its universal. Its ok if they spit onto the grass when they really have to, or if a dustbin is not in reach, i can understand.
But those that spit onto the concrete pavements when the grasses are nicely lined along it, are just being too much. People walk on it for goodness sake. Are they retarded or what? Just because it isn't their country, they can treat it as if they shouldn't give a shit? Even some Singaporeans are really retarded. Spitting on their homeland. So not cool.
2) Littering.
Just yesterday when i was on my way home, the bus had to travel past a temporary dormitory built just beside Paya Lebar Air Base, its pretty secluded so chances are that you've never seen it before.
Anyway, being secluded, one would expect the place to be automatically be clean simply because its so secluded that if they didn't take care of the place themselves, no one would! NOT HERE.
These dumb asses littered like nobody's business. And its not the tissue here and there kind of litter. Its Bottles, Cartons, Food Packets, u name it, its all there. Right smack along the whole stretch of road, lined up nicely as if hoping there would be a wind there to pick everything up.
Then theres Little India's little green fields where they gather after a week's of hard work on Sunday to chill with their own peeps. Thats fine right? I'm cool with them gathering. Infact, I welcome them to gather, theres absolutely no problem at all. Whats not cool, is after they left, well, you know what to expect.
You know teenagers always like to call our Indian foreigners as Bangla? I think its really uncalled for. Because the worst nationality ever to reach our shores, are from China.
No, I'm not gonna blame them for coming to Singapore for prostitution or what. I welcome them, they are the blue-collared workers that help our economy survive. They are the ones willing to do the work Singaporeans don't want to do.
But what i'm not happy is, is that they seem to be invading our country, slowly. Not far much away from recently, China's President Hu actually offered the USA to employ some of their China's citizens. They were simply too over populated. They had to "clear stock", if u may.
Singapore basically decided to be kind, we employed these chinese nationals to our country to give them a lease of life, to be given the opportunity to live a life. I'm sure they were appreciative; at least most of them were.
Slowly by slowly, 7-11 stores start to have these chinese nationals doing the night shift, speaking english so basic i want to strangle them. Even some petrol kiosks are fully managed(operationally) by these Chinese nationals. What country they came from doesn't matter to me. Its their attitude that totally sucks.
Imagine walking into a store, to see these chinese nationals chatting amongst themselves, oblivious to you. Sometimes during the night shift, you see their friends popping by to chat with them over the counter. Singaporeans do have friends popping by to chat at their work place too. But that is occasionally. But what the chinese nationals are doing, are just too much! They would LOVE to finish their chat first before attending to you. And when they attend to you, their accent is OMFG. You sometimes don't even get what they are saying. Is it english? Is it mandarin? Or is it their dialect?
Even bus drivers positions are being taken by them. Imagine someone who doesn't speak chinese boards the bus, asking these dumb faggots who don't speak english at all for directions or if a bus stopped at a particular location only to receive a HUH? as a reply.
Singapore being the aspiring toursim hub, this isn't beneficial at all. What most tourists cannot do is to distinguish the non-Singaporean asians. Basically who they see, are considered Singaporeans. So if they ever board such a bus with a chinese faggot that cannot speak English, Singapore 0, China 1.
As a matter of fact, there is a taiwan show that actually had a topic for the show using Singaporean's english. One woman particularly commented on how intriguing a custom officer's english was when she was getting through the customs at Woodlands from Msia. She actually had the balls to comment on the standard of english of these custom officers. She happily generalized these officers as Singaporeans. Best part was she was commenting on the pronounciation, not the Singlish used by us. For goodness sake, there are quite a number of malaysians working in our police force. Reason being why...read:
Tell me, how many true bred Singaporeans do you know actually can't speak english properly? The qualifications needed to be a police officer definitely proves that true bred Singaporeans are capable and adequate in pronouncing english words effectively. And being born into an english speaking society, even in a non-english speaking family, the exposure to standard english is definitely adequate to not be considered as lousy.
Singapore -1, Malaysia 1.
I have nothing against malaysians. Only for their inherent obsession with wanting to go to war with Singapore. Did you guys even know Singapore was on Orange Alert for military in 2002 about the threats by the msia govt over the cancellation of water supply to Singapore? Back then water from msia was the main source, now, Singapore don't give a shit.
Orange alert was on for 3 weeks, which simply meant that tanks were already being moved to the causeway for war. Red would simply mean ongoing war. It is true.
Ok off topic.
Other than how some Indians really stink, and im not saying that their coconut oil on the hair thing, its their culture, i accept it. But the majority of them don't seem to be a fan of baths. Can anyone care to enlighten me on it? I really want to know. Singaporean Indians are fine. We all form to one Singapore, we are Singaporeans(saying this so i won't be classified as a racist and be charged in court).
Indian nationals in general dress up well, or at least to their best when they go out for their meetings with their peeps. Which is really nice. But the chinese nationals. OMG. Those kind of cheap white slippers with blue straps kind, army pants from dont know where, singlets and all. Stinky breaths, ugly faces, loud voices and their really unhygienic habit.
Spitting seems to be their sport. Littering too. So to be fair, when i was in Shanghai in 2007, i decided to adhere to a saying
I'm sure none of us are expecting much, what we want is that these Foreigners attend to their behaviours well. When in Singapore, do what the Singaporeans do. And if you are one of these foreigners, here are some guidelines:
1) SHUT UP
2) If you can't cook, don't work at my kopitiam stall selling ban mian!
3) Dont spit
4) Don't litter
5) Don't walk in large groups.
I so wanna tag these people and differentiate them from Singaporeans to the other foreigners. Like in dubai, the citizens will usually wear their headdress thing while foreigners don't. At least people know who is who. But in Singapore, omg.
Once i starred at a china national for spitting when he was at a loading bay near my block loading off some cartons. He went to hide in his truck after he saw me. Even saw him looking back at me using his wing mirror. Basket.
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