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5 points Singaporeans can improve on...

Over the past 2 years in Sydney, I feel that Singaporeans (in general) have one of the worst attitude in the world. I rarely hang around with most Singaporeans when I am overseas... as I find most of them kinda irritating...

Being a Singaporean, I feel I have a right to shoot myself in the foot. Before I do so, I can say that Singapore is a good place to live in... there is no where else in the world that has a political stability in the government, a good health system, a secure living environment (in terms of security and environmental influence) and so on...

(Click here for CNN's 50 reasons why Singapore is the best city in the world.)

Having lived abroad, returning to Singapore has been a total culture shock. We lack social ethics. Here are some factors that I find horrible in most Singaporeans:

1. We are Rude. One example is about Singapore's bus patrons are impolite... in Auzzie they thank the bus driver when we alight.
2. We discriminate foreigners. Seriously, we are a bunch of racist/nationalist people. (example: the PRC stigma)
3. We do the tissue chopping stuff. I personally feel is disgusting... particularly when one small insignificant tissue pack can represent an actual person sitting down there. I dunno.. but I do feel that most people do share the same sentiments unless you do this kinda stuff.
4. We are always late. I am sure it happens... in weddings/social gatherings... (the list goes on)... When we say we'll be late by 5-10 mins. We will definitely be late by 30 mins.
5. We articulate badly. I am not saying that my communications skills are perfect too... but we really need to at least get a perfect spoken/written language in order to be a 1st world country... no wonder no one in Singapore is admitting we are a 1st world country because the outside world couldn't understand what we are talking about. My personal experience in Aussie has been quite an eye opener... what I realised was that we are really fast speakers and we like to do short-cuts when we are spelling things out.

But of course, perfection in everything would never be met.... However, I believe if this social/language problems are solved... together we could make a better Singapore... Probably the best place to be in...

P.S. Thanks Ris for CNN's link! :D

Singaporean Pronunciation: Tuition

I know my english is horrible but I am doing my best to improve it everyday. It is often irritating to be corrected by family/friends/teachers for the wrong way of pronunciation... some of this words/names/titles include: IKEA (IK-EA) , Three/tree, La(r)sik...

But this one has been bugging me as well: Tuition.

In Singapore we always pronounce the word "Tuition" as 'Tui-tion' or should it be 'Tu-ition'??

According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary it should be (turn on audio): Click here

What do you think???

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Updates: 9 Oct 2009

Down with a running nose at the moment. I normally would recover from a cold within a day but this has been bugging me for 3 days already. But I will survive.

Normally people would wake up and say: "Another day to work!" or "Another day to school!". Not to sound pessimistic but every morning I have been waking up to "Another day of unemployment!"

Job searching at the moment, not gonna say much about the kind of jobs I am interested in. But will keep things updated on this blog as much as I can.

Note to job seekers:
While job searching, never go for an interview when you are sick. Always keep a positive and open mindset.

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