A 3 day 2 night affair with loads of mixed feelings
I’m day 3 from the day i came back from there and loads of stuff in my head has gone to waste…
Typical
Anyway… Singapore, like i have imagined all this while, is one heck of a city. I hate the people there (the tour guide), I hate the shopping there (prices), and i hate the hotel we stayed (Geylang…haih…). Yea, basically it’s a world of hate in singapore for me.
The tour guide, and i hope i do not generalise all singaporians to be this way, puts down malaysians whole heartedly, and point blank in a whole bus of 26 openly. I quote (pointing at the merlion with a tone teaching 3 year old school children): “This is the HEAD, which is a LI-ON, and this is the TAIL, which is a FI-SH. Put 2 together you get the symbol of singapore, MER-LION.”
Oh come on la… WE KNOW WHAT THE MERLION IS OK….
(Points to a port crane lifting a container at PSA): “You all see that or not? That’s a crane! It is used to lift containers to be stowed on to ship. Singapore is the world’s largest port in the world! For those who haven’t seen a crane before please look to your left.”
Walau Eh…FINE LA your port is the biggest, doesn’t mean we Malaysians don’t have Port Klang and have not seen a crane before ma right?
(Points to everything around him): Singapore is the first in everything, we won’t settle for 2nd, must alwasy be first
Further proof that singapore is striving to be first, and thinks it matters most.
[Not saying this is bad, but a little humbleness would not hurt at all..]
This totally changes my perspective towards Singaporeans, I’ve met great Singaporeans in IMU, Seng Chye, Wei Lin, Redhuan… all of them are great people, none of them like this fool over here ranting on shaming him and his country in a tour bus…
His service, however, has merits too. He made sure we were all present, ate till we were full, comfortable, encouraging, and most of the time quite sarcastically funny. He would have been better service wise, if he followed the group everywhere, which he didin’t, saying he’s old, cannot take it and his joints are going to burn out.
So many flaws about Singapore, but this doesn’t mean it has no good in it. In fact, merits out number flaws 1,000,500,200 to 1. There’s the food, which was surprsingly good and affordable (Kalang), the organized way the city planners planned the city (Business District), the beautiful attractions (Sentosa, Singapore Zoo), some very kind hearted people (Unnamed aunty at Kalang Food Court), the way drivers stop for pedestrians on a zebra crossing (Suntec City), The roads which were silkiy smooth with absolutely no bumbs at all (from AYE to CYE), and of course the emphasis of science (Singapore Science Centre), Arts (School of the Arts, Singapore) and religion (Buddha Tooth Temple). If Malaysia could only learn a tenth of what Singapore has done so far, Malaysia wouldn’t be such a hell hole right now.
Overall it was a very enjoyable trip, minus the ass hole of a kind, putting singapore to shame tour guide.
I would say 3 days is insufficient to walk the entire Singapore of it’s attractions, it was a hurried expedition indeed. Nontheless, it still made quality time spent with family
CB out
