Some years ago I was doing a very extensive TV commercial shoot over in the Army training grounds in Lim Chu Kang. We had a kiwi Director of Photography (DOP - hah! I can use acronyms too!) who has never worked in Singapore before. After 9 days of traveling to and fro from the hotel he was staying in in River Valley Road to Lim Chu Kang he finally pulled me aside and asked me, "Where the hell is this pie that I keep seeing signs for?"morenangpinay wrote:ooooooooooooooooooh so thats it. hahahahaha i always hear it as CITY.jpatokal wrote:Um... just in case you really didn't understand, he's saying CTE (see tee ee), aka the Central Expressway.morenangpinay wrote:and then i always get puzzled..when the taxi driver says....we go by city??.... i always wonder what hes talking about lol what CITY! this whole country is a city lol so you mean theres a province?????????
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60 signs you've been in Singapore too long!
"Both politicians and nappies need to be changed regularly, and for the same reasons."
it should be a living list
my contribution:
61. You stop secretly sniggering at people who refer to the date as "two oh oh nine" instead of "two-thousand-and-nine" used by the rest of the world. But only because you've heard it so many times...
62. You find (almost) yourself doing the same rude thing on the bus by forcing the person who wants to sit down, to inconviently crawl over you to get to the window seat.
63. You are no longer stunned at the frightening prices and lack of choices of DVDs and CDs for sale here and just buy from the internet.
...and I'm sure there are others to follow
my contribution:
61. You stop secretly sniggering at people who refer to the date as "two oh oh nine" instead of "two-thousand-and-nine" used by the rest of the world. But only because you've heard it so many times...
62. You find (almost) yourself doing the same rude thing on the bus by forcing the person who wants to sit down, to inconviently crawl over you to get to the window seat.
63. You are no longer stunned at the frightening prices and lack of choices of DVDs and CDs for sale here and just buy from the internet.
...and I'm sure there are others to follow
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Why are people to lazy to use the excellent search function on this site!
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That's interesting. I've always found DVDs and CDs to be around half the price of what they are back "home". Mind you, 'back home' for me is Ireland.EADG wrote:63. You are no longer stunned at the frightening prices and lack of choices of DVDs and CDs for sale here and just buy from the internet.
"Both politicians and nappies need to be changed regularly, and for the same reasons."
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i really hate it when ppl do that but yeah in raffles place it a common cultureWen81 wrote:One suggestion for the list:
You also reserve seats with packs of tissue at the foodcourt or hawker centres. (Esp for those who work in Raffles Place)!
Lol.
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa
Found this list long time ago:
http://www.bevaart.com/cultureshock/
Not sure if the link was posted here.
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http://www.bevaart.com/cultureshock/
Not sure if the link was posted here.
We had a kind of ad-hoc farewell party for our colleague (Caucasian). All together 10-12 people and a local lady entered the room holding a six-pack of beer (small cans) with a glowing expression of triumph on her face and the words "lets get him wasted". This was the only alcohol bought for this occasion.BucketHead2 wrote:LOL the list is very funny.
Ohh yeah and you start to think that having "5 drinks" is FAR TOO MUCH.
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