Not all Chinese come from China!
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prc can get into ur sec sch meh?Originally posted by stellazio:this PRC situation is getting out of hand, i remember getting complained about by PRC classmates back in sec sch for making too much noise..knn..
KILL ALL PRCS -
And what do I look likeOriginally posted by the Bear:hey.. what do i work as?
cult leader does look like she's from china
seriously
since taxi drivers in Singapore always ask me,"So where are you from Miss? You don't sound local?????" 
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Originally posted by the Bear:hey.. what do i work as?
cult leader does look like she's from china
seriously
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without speaking, you look like you're from Korea...
South (not the commies) that is
and cult leader.. really..
maybe one of these days, should ask those who work at the airports to look at you.. they'd say the same thingOriginally posted by elindra:And what do I look like since taxi drivers in Singapore always ask me,"So where are you from Miss? You don't sound local?????" -
No wonder my friend who had a few korean gfs insisted that I look KoreanOriginally posted by the Bear:without speaking, you look like you're from Korea...
South (not the commies) that is
and cult leader.. really..
maybe one of these days, should ask those who work at the airports to look at you.. they'd say the same thing
I kept telling him to check his eyes
But, there are others who say I look Japanese, PRC and Malaysian -
PreciselyOriginally posted by Rhonda:Oh, it's so funny... this Japanese man literally bounced up to me, very happy, and started talking in Japanese to me and I was ! When I told him, "Sorry, I'm not Japanese.", the disappointment on his face was so ... sad! 
When I told my friend, she said that he was probably single and feeling very lonely and was so happy when he thought I was a Japanese girl he could befriend!
Poor bloke!
Lau, I've been mistaken for a Jap thrice since I came here liao!
I dont know how come the PRCs bear seen would look like you, but you look like one of the Japanese ladies i would have seen on Japanese shows -
what do i work as?
now maybe the cult leader will stop being so angry -
Originally posted by the Bear:what do i work as?
now maybe the cult leader will stop being so angry -
Mabbe bear means rhonda looks like one of those pretty Suzhou gals?
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I think you are making things worse BearOriginally posted by the Bear:what do i work as?
now maybe the cult leader will stop being so angry
Btw I'm not too sure if I wanna look like a Korean
I don't like Koreans -
muahaahahahahaha
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Koreans can be rough and rudeOriginally posted by elindra:I think you are making things worse Bear
Btw I'm not too sure if I wanna look like a Korean I don't like Koreans
Not from me, but from TV shows as well as my friend who is a Korean fanatic
Besides, you look more like a Hong Konger to me -
Piangz.....Originally posted by laurence82:Koreans can be rough and rude
Not from me, but from TV shows as well as my friend who is a Korean fanatic
Besides, you look more like a Hong Konger to me
*Adds to list* Hong Konger....
Koreans can be rough and rude
I really hate those I meet on online games
Coz they are the players that usually cause grieve to other players -
Actually....now you know why those ang mos think that all Asians are the same We can't even tell the difference ourselves without opening the mouth
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Well, we may not be able to differentiate, but we never go around thinking all ang mohs come from England right?
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No we don'tOriginally posted by laurence82:Well, we may not be able to differentiate, but we never go around thinking all ang mohs come from England right? -
well when singaporeans think all bangladeshi r general workers why cant ppl assume chinese looking ppl come from china...lol...neways china is a big nation as compared to Singapore, and its more well known...Singapore is just a dot...even malaysia is more well known then us...
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Met up with friend's friend, a grad student from China recently. When I opened my mouth in that "you-know-which-school" accent and spoke Mandarin, he thought I hailed from Indonesia.
Oh and he almost jumped out of his chair when another friend started speaking mandarin to him after 2 hours of using English. I guess when dinner was over, he was wondering about Singaporean Chinese who can speak Hokkien better than Putonghua, absolutely love chili and can interchange between English and Mandarin with ease. At least he did try to speak to us in English after he realised our Mandarin wasn't to scratch, or in his words, different in enunciation. -
nbr shw yr hokkien ahOriginally posted by FireIce:even in singapore, i was mistaken for da lu mei before.....by cabbies.....
simply bcos i speak chinese very well
i told him im a singaporean
he asked me if i studied or worked overseas before
i said no, for 36yrs, im stuck in singapore
he still dun believe
even when i paid and abt to get off the cab, he asked again whether im relli singaporean.
i said YAH LAH! then run off
speak chinese well oso kena mistaken as from china
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haven migrate ahOriginally posted by valentinoo:well when singaporeans think all bangladeshi r general workers why cant ppl assume chinese looking ppl come from china...lol...neways china is a big nation as compared to Singapore, and its more well known...Singapore is just a dot...even malaysia is more well known then us... -
company transfering me next year..what about u? will always be here ah?Originally posted by Chelzea:haven migrate ah -
I still remember a teenage English friend from the forum which hon and I used to surf, because he mistook S'pore for Hong Kong: "Didn't we hand you guys back to China some time ago?"
I look like I come from any part of East Asia, but when I open my mouth, almost everyone who meets me for the first time thinks I'm a BBC or somed. They always ask, "Where did you learn to speak like that?"
I don't know how honey will deal with someone who mistakes her for an Anglo-Saxon. -
lol..yeah right..singaporeans can speak really good english...Originally posted by Kuali Baba:I still remember a teenage English friend from the forum which hon and I used to surf, because he mistook S'pore for Hong Kong: "Didn't we hand you guys back to China some time ago?"
I look like I come from any part of East Asia, but when I open my mouth, almost everyone who meets me for the first time thinks I'm a BBC or somed. They always ask, "Where did you learn to speak like that?"
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You have just described America.Originally posted by Rhonda:I'm into my 5th month in Melbourne already and I've come to realise that the folks here can be loosely categorised into three groups when it comes to interactions with Asians :
1 - Those who don't know much about Asia and have not ventured far outside Australia and even if they have toured in Asia, they probably never tried to immerse themselves in the diverse culture and they return with Australia none the wiser;
2 - Those who know / don't know about Asia but don't give a hoot anyways because they generally have a negative opinion of Asians. Doesn't matter if it's just one nationality / group of people, as long as you're not 'one of them', you're not kewl.
3 - Those who have travelled / worked in Asia and have Asian friends and made an attempt to reach out to people who are different and thus broaden their horizons. -
It's a bluff! It's all a facade!Originally posted by Rhonda:Actually, I've met lots of very interesting people from all walks of life in my job and I must say that I love the poor and humble over the rich hoity-toity folks.
A British colleague, who's been in Melbourne for donkey years actually told me one night when we sat down for a chat that "here, they are more class conscious than we were back in Britain, bloody hell! You wouldn't think it'll be as bad, but I tell you, it's worse!" (I love her Brit accent! Especially when she says "Bloody Hell!" )
Now, that was something I didn't expect to discover here, because we tend to think of Aussies as 'easygoing', but now that I work and live in their midst, I'm starting to SEE.
They have this sub-culture where you can't really take everything at face value.