4 chinamen at a hawker stall
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Just only, I went to a coffeeshop to order hokkien mee. I was surprised to see all 4 workers (all chinamen) laboriously toiling away. One taking orders and sending, another one cooking, another washing and the last one packing the food. And the one packing even shouted across in English to a customer seated outside: "Eh boss, you want chilli ah?" And then he started beckoning to his colleague in heavily accented mandarin (me thinks maybe it's the accent of Sichuan).
As I sat down to watch the 7pm kungfu drama, I thought to myself that these chinamen are really hungry to make it in life. They forced themselves to learn and cook our local style of food, they learned to speak English, they are quick and responsive to customers.....and my gut feel tells me they are no university graduates but some poor blokes from the villages in China.
And I saw images of our ancestors in them. I'm referring to our forefathers who have once upon a time come down south to SEA. Did our forefathers work like them? Learn the Malay language? Learn each other's dialect? And that's how they all made it.
I shall stop short of saying foreigners, be they educated or uneducated......are going to take over Singapore one day. Oh btw, their hokkien mee was not salty enough but nevertheless a decent attempt.
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i dun think their work attitude has problems, but it's the culture and moral values... for example the kid left to die with many passerbys heck care... so what if you are rich yet deep down you're a complete asshole... it doesn't apply to just china people btw, personally in my life i even got cheated of my money by a christian singaporean.
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Singapore a land for foreign employment.
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I think china is a land of very diverse moral values, that's all.
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If you're saying we're now damn comfortable and the real, hard dream-chasing is being done by mainlanders, then yes.
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one such foreign worker found opportunities here when his father's rice business collapsed in china....
his name is Tan Kah Kee
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another foreign worker who worked for him...later became his son in law....
his name is
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Originally posted by DailyFreeGames.com:
i dun think their work attitude has problems, but it's the culture and moral values... for example the kid left to die with many passerbys heck care... so what if you are rich yet deep down you're a complete asshole... it doesn't apply to just china people btw, personally in my life i even got cheated of my money by a christian singaporean.
Its not that those people who cheat you are asshole.
Its you who is stupid to keep on getting cheated
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Originally posted by single_alone:
Its not that those people who cheat you are asshole.
Its you who is stupid to keep on getting cheated
Good point. 牛唔飲水，唔撳得牛é 低 as far as this Cantonese saying goes.
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Originally posted by single_alone:
Its not that those people who cheat you are asshole.
Its you who is stupid to keep on getting cheated
acheri is both de
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Originally posted by single_alone:
Its not that those people who cheat you are asshole.
Its you who is stupid to keep on getting cheated
You belong to the same group of people who would say that women deserve to be raped because they wear too little. I'm not too sure how you managed to make any sense out of such statements.
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Originally posted by single_alone:
Its not that those people who cheat you are asshole.
Its you who is stupid to keep on getting cheated
You mean you have the crystal ball to tell you the person is going to cheat you????
Come on la, be fair, don't make such a stupid statement , many things in life cannot be predicted.
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Originally posted by BanguIzai:
Good point. 牛唔飲水，唔撳得牛é 低 as far as this Cantonese saying goes.
See my response to his post. Many things in life cannot be predicted. If a person knows he will be cheated you think the person will go forth to let the other party cheat him??
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But you at least chase your dream. Chase it, then only sit back and say insyaallah.
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Originally posted by winsomeea:
See my response to his post. Many things in life cannot be predicted. If a person knows he will be cheated you think the person will go forth to let the other party cheat him??
Ya I know.
Although this saying usually applies when person is cheated, but it still holds true even if person is not cheated (i.e. gained). Whether or not, one party has to want to 飲水 before he/she enters into any agreement.
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Complain what? You all not from china last time meh? all chinese so rude u say china people but what about urself? Do you say thank you? Do you say please? In singapore if u say thank you u are weird. This the only country that is like that. At least ang moh know how to present themselves as pleasant at first but when u get to know them then u see their true colours. Asian first impression already rude
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Originally posted by Bushking93:
Complain what? You all not from china last time meh? all chinese so rude u say china people but what about urself? Do you say thank you? Do you say please? In singapore if u say thank you u are weird. This the only country that is like that. At least ang moh know how to present themselves as pleasant at first but when u get to know them then u see their true colours. Asian first impression already rude
PLEASE LA
I go Malaysia the mak cik sell me teh tarik ma say thank you, I oso say >.>
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Originally posted by AIex:
You belong to the same group of people who would say that women deserve to be raped because they wear too little. I'm not too sure how you managed to make any sense out of such statements.
you are stretching it. one does not have anything to do with the other.
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Originally posted by Bushking93:
Complain what? You all not from china last time meh? all chinese so rude u say china people but what about urself? Do you say thank you? Do you say please? In singapore if u say thank you u are weird. This the only country that is like that. At least ang moh know how to present themselves as pleasant at first but when u get to know them then u see their true colours. Asian first impression already rude
You sound like you are in the sales line.
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Originally posted by Bushking93:
Complain what? You all not from china last time meh? all chinese so rude u say china people but what about urself? Do you say thank you? Do you say please? In singapore if u say thank you u are weird. This the only country that is like that. At least ang moh know how to present themselves as pleasant at first but when u get to know them then u see their true colours. Asian first impression already rude
You sound you have not travelled around to know there are people from other countries who don't say the things you mentioned. Hey, just get lost out of Singapore, Singaporeans are so one kind to you. Migrate to angmo countries and let angmos discriminate against you.Frog in a well!
Bo nao!
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complacency and comfort makes us not push ourselves harder and instead complain about others
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Originally posted by mistyblue:
complacency and comfort makes us not push ourselves harder and instead complain about others
hey, \that is a sweeping statement. wow, you keep complaining about others, that is bad, you need to do some soul searching. -
Originally posted by mistyblue:
complacency and comfort makes us not push ourselves harder and instead complain about others
Justify.