Cogito ergo scribo

I knew that Singapore is a small country but i didn't realized how small it was until Saturday. 贝 and i almost drove around the whole of Singapore on that day, and we noticed that one could travel from one end of the country to another in less than an hour.

Here's the route we travelled on Saturday:

Entered Singapore via Tuas --> AYE --> Sixth Lok Yang Road --> AYE --> PIE --> KJE --> BKE --> SLE --> TPE --> my new office --> PIE --> CTE --> Tanjung Pagar --> Vivo City --> AYE --> Exited via Tuas

Uh huh, so with the exception of ECP, we've travelled all the expressways of Singapore on that day. And the total distance travelled wouldn't even bring us from JB to Melaka.

I meant no insult in saying this, but we somehow came to an understanding of why majority of Singaporeans have this island mentality, which is so typical of people living in small island state. I guess now i may have more tolerance for the ugly behaviours of some Singaporeans because they probably just couldn't help it. I think being born and raised in a country where the source of pride must come from being Number 1 in everything they do, it's inevitable that the people become so kiasu and would look down on foreigners whose countries they think couldn't measure up to their small island.

I still disapprove such behaviours of course, but at least i can understand what causes the people to behave in such ways. Hopefully that can help me to see beyond their shortcomings and come to appreciate the good sides of these otherwise annoying people.

Labels: life, opinion, singapore, trivia