Sunday, March 16
being singaporean 2:31 am

being here in toronto isnt as lonely as i thought it would be. Surprising, at some places or restaurant, once in a while people start to pop out of no where and ask " are u singaporean or malaysian..." And people know from our slang or so-called accent. which is one thing im proud being a singaporean for.

like, when jasper and his friends were eating at some koreab bbq house.. the waiter suddenly came up to them and ask them whether they are from singapore. And that guys replied " eh! Tampines street 11!" hur hur.. or when rachel chow and i met up for the first time in toronto and we were eating at another korean bbq house, this young guy asked whether we are from singapore and he said he used to study at xinmin sec. or the other time when we were shopping at a korean supermarket.. this girl came up to us and ask whether we are singaporeans.. and yes, she is a singaporean who is a freshie in uni of toronto.

we may be the minority in toronto, but singaporeans always find each other in the end.

like for example, Chris. he knew the previous batch of exchange students from smu ntu and nus..so yeah we were introduced to him when we were here.. after 1 mth?

or jasper's friend's primary school classmate, Nas,... met up with them for dinner when jasper's friend was in town...

or charlene, another nus girl frm FASS studying in another faculty in york too.. we only found out 1 mth later....

or last night, baolin's friends drove up from usa on a road trip. they are from SMU SIS and were on some 2 year bachelor cum masters program with smu and host university.

or one of the travel agent at our university is/was a singaporean.

u realise that singapore is reallly really really small. no matter how much u hate being in singapore.. there is something good identifying yourself as a singaporean. we dont miss asian food- we miss singaporean food. we need the sambal, balachan and hei-bee-hiam. we need laksa, singaporean curry, hainanese chicken rice, bah ku teh. We need Teh-peng, milo-peng.. milo dinosaur.. and Kopi, not western coffee. We need prata (not pharatha!) and late night suppers. We need block 85 bah chor mee.. wanton mee..carrot cake.. char kway teow.. sambal stingray and prawn mee. These arent asian food cuisine u can find anywhere in the world.

this are Singaporean food and u can only get the best back home.
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