You'll be pleased (?) to know that Singapore doesn't have a monopoly on bad service.My sorbet arrived and was melting long before my partner's profiteroles arrived. Even after he went and told them that we'd like to eat together PLEASE- it still took half a godamned century !
This quote above sms- wasn't that a reply to another poster whose post is now not ther ?! As it looks now, you are replying to your own post What THE ?sundaymorningstaple wrote: My bad. I'm not even sure who the post belonged to. I meant to delete MY post but it looks like I blew it and deleted the wrong post. My apologies to whomever it was, as it was not done deliberately but at 1 am after a long Chinese Dinner I think I was nodding out and didn't pay attention.
No, Ozchick, you weren't imagining anything
Hi, could someone expand on this "kiasu" for us please?Turtle wrote: ... why Singaporeans have the "kiasu" stereotype. I have lived in London, Manchester and Toronto, and my personal experience and what I have observed is that in general, more people here are superficial, and superficiality is more widely accepted. I'm not saying that everybody is like that or even 50% are like that or whatever, it's just the general impression that I and many others have got.
Quite literally, it means the fear of losing out. 'Kia' means afraid, 'su' means lose. Graceless behaviour such as cutting lines, using packets of tissue to "reserve" tables at hawker centers, changing topics in ridiculous tangets, etc.sierra2469alpha wrote:Hi, could someone expand on this "kiasu" for us please?Turtle wrote: ... why Singaporeans have the "kiasu" stereotype. I have lived in London, Manchester and Toronto, and my personal experience and what I have observed is that in general, more people here are superficial, and superficiality is more widely accepted. I'm not saying that everybody is like that or even 50% are like that or whatever, it's just the general impression that I and many others have got.
Many thanks in advance!
Such low class don't you think, and I thought i was bad! No offence meant really, it's just so funny, that where I from I only see it in the workingmens' club. on a bingo night, but i guess it serves its purpose. Until you meet the one that doesn't give a shit. Then what do you do? Just curious.You see it everywhere in the world, it's just that we've given a name to it and for some bizarre reason, embraced it as indicative of our culture
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