Singaporeans.

Singaporeans sure are one of a kind. Foreigners sees them as werid and unpredictable and who could blame them. At one time, they would look determined to achieve something, at the other they would be goofing around and reflecting a happy go lucky life. I've always love to try and click with foreign friends of mine in school or anywhere else. It is always interesting to hear what they have to say about us, singaporeans. One of them recently told me this : "They look so fast like they got no brake." What my dear friend is trying to say is that we singaporeans lead a fast paced life and dosen't seem to have any time for our ownselves. A couple of years back, another foreign friend of mine told me that singaporeans look as if they are content with anything they have and dosen't put in much effort to improvise. Interesting two different perceptions of us. I feel that it just sums up how unpredictable we are.

Another thing is that we singaporeans find it difficult to tolerate criticism. Often when foreigners are being criticized, they look at themselves and explore the reason why people are criticizing them. But if singaporeans were to be criticized, Singaporeans would get into defensive mode and say things like "So you think you can do a better job?" And when criticized by foreigners, they go "So you think your country is better? Get out of Singapore if you don't like it!" Ridiculous i should say. But still, its all part of us and i'm sure we came across it before. I feel that the reason most of us are not progressing as well as those foreigners are is because of this. We spend far more time trying to complain and make others look bad. When all the while, we should had used the time to try and improve ourselves instead.

Perceptions is another thing. Its funny how we singaporeans think at times. I remember a time when i was out with a group of my friends and one guy dropped a 20 cent coin. The rest of us were trying to help him find the coin but he said "Nvm, its okay, its only 20 cents." And i've came across many singaporeans saying things like "Aiya, only 10 cent what" and "Its just 40 cents!" But recently, during the hike in food prices. People start complaining when the prices went up by a mere 10 cents or 20 cents. Its really funny when you think of us complaining about the increase of prices by 20cents when we don't value the 20 cent coin that much.

Times have changed. In the past, most Singaporeans' ancestors make a living through labor work, they don't care about politics as long as standard of living improve. Now, Singaporeans are more educated and are seeking all sorts of things such as democracy, freedom of speech, room for individual choices and etc etc. But then, before demanding all those, we should take a look at ourselves in the mirror first. We should be able to take criticisms more positively first and improve our attitude. We keep complaining here and there about the foreigners taking over our place in the working industry as well as in school. But what we don't realise is that we are the ones who have been gifting them our positions and places in our own homeland with open arms. Thus before we open our mouth and shoot about other countries, i hope we could do a thing about our ownselves first.

Lastly, this post might sound hurtful and offensive to some people. But i mean no offence, and i'm reffering to singaporeans and foreigners as a whole, not targetting a certain individual or group. As a singaporean myself, i have to say that the problem in our country regarding us losing our places to foreigners is growing ever so quickly. I just don't understand why we keep complaining to the government for letting them in, instead of finding ways to improve ourselves so that we could protect our places and positions. So yeah, singaporeans, do think about that.