And americans, lol, my english is crap, but I’ve made a bunch of them feel stupid for knowing more english than they do. I remember reading somewhere that Americans (or most of them) think the USA is the world, and they’re hardly aware of the outside world. Still, like everywhere else they have their share of idiots and we have ours, the bigger piece of land they have means they have to deal with more. The general populace of the USA is overrated.

I guess Americans are the biggest culprit in this. Their country is so big, and they seem so self-sufficient that they cut themselves out from the rest of the MINOR countries.

Can’t blame them. If you test me on some wel-known countries or cities, I might not have heard of it.

Many years back, I used to think Wow, Singapore is so great. First in this and that. Oh we speak and learn English as a “first language” even though we are mostly Chinese in race.

After travelling widely, I now know many people really don’t know where Singapore is. And honestly, it’s not a big deal of a country.

We think we are so great sometimes, but there are many other great stuffs overseas also. For eg, we often say, here you can find great food and shopping. I think that’s the biggest over-tatement. You can find many great (cheaper and better in fact) foods in malaysia, thailand, etc.

Shopping? Big joke. You can get so many cheaper things in Hong Kong, China, and even in other developed countries. Else why would you hear of peoples shopping like crazy when they go travelling? I’m no exception.

As for English as a “first language”, that’s the biggest joke of them all. We speak poor English and probably much worse “mother tongue” (Chinese language for the majority here).

Just compare the standard of our students from the top schools and native English speakers who are school dropouts, the latter could likely speak English a lot better. Even a foreigner who learns English for only 3-4 years properly can speak and write a lot better than most of us here who supposedly learn it for at least 10-12 years at school.

So Singapore in China or India? Who cares. :)

Michael Palmer did not know that there are poor people in developed countries (like S’pore) until he joined grassroots organisations.

He was on his way to the parliament.

i guess most foreigner mistaken Singapore as an Oriental countres like hong kong, taiwan or shangai… the movie Pirates of the Caribean… Singapore was shown as a Chinese sea port village.. with Chow Yun Fatt in a Fu Man Chu…

Annabel Chong and Lee Kuan Yew made Singapore famous.. yep both are Chinese..

i guess you also made singapore famous with your interview in the French website..

wish you and your love ones a happy CNY.. my great fortunes and good health smiles on you..

one day a man saw a cow grazing on a field.. he decided to milked the cow.. after milking it.. he drank the milk.. he decided to milked the cow again…

a farner saw the man… he asked the man what he was doing.. the man replied he was milking the cow..

the farmer said, ” that is not a cow.. thatz a BULL…’

happy niu year…..

Assuming they’r friends you know in real life,it must be too close a relationship cos they don’t criticize you at all,if you realize,even if they’r not,drawing understanding of people you know thru the net is pretty pointless,i’v been there,done that,regretted my actions,Having mutual understanding thru the net just doesn’t work.

I did myself wrong when i tried to be as caring as possible to girls on the net,solving their emotional problems and all,but it is’nt worth it