Sunday, June 08, 2008


I have always been excited about the Grand Prix Night Race in Singapore but it has never occured to me what people overseas thought of it. So I did a Google search...

I came across a forum with this silly post:
"...Having a race in freezing cold dark isnt going to create any more drama or overtaking!"

Someone else retorted with this post:
"Singapore is in the equatorial region, it would be actually nicer for the fans to see a night race! there is no such thing as freezing cold in that part of the world...."

You got that right. There is no such thing as freezing cold except maybe during the monsoon season. Hee...So please if you're coming down for the race, please don't come in winter clothes or u'll be sweating like a pig.

Then, I headed on to another entry about the race and saw this comment:
"So China is getting another race venue?"

DUDE...get your facts right. We are not and will never be part of freaking China. Hahahaha!! We're located in SOUTH EAST ASIA AT THE TIP OF MALAYSIA. It's as silly as assuming Canada is one of the states of America. Or Spain is part of the UK.

I remember Jocelyn was in Australia and a local asked where she's from. Jocelyn of course said Singapore and the reply was, "Oh, which part of China is that?" And my gosh, the distance between Australia and Singapore isn't THAT far, I would expect at least Aussies know where Singapore is.

Maybe some people are ignorant or Singapore has misrepresented herself. Maybe our tourism campaigns depicted Singapore like its a state in China. Who knows?

And then I shut up @ 6/08/2008 09:06:00 PM
 

1 Comments:

  • At 2:43 PM , Blogger Ariel said...

    yeah reminds me of when i was in Australia & i said i was from Singapore. They thought Singapore is China.

    I told them i'm of Malay heritage. But they still think i'm chinese coz i'm Chinese looking. Its all generalisation. Hard for them to understand.

    Ariel
    from
    indoktv.blogspot.com

     

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