Blogging in London
London is truly cosmopolitan. You could not walk few paces witout hearing a non-English language being spoken. Even now, some Pakistani is speaking Urdu to someone next to me. If this is the city which Singapore aspires to be someday, it is a destination which this current generation would probably not live to see. That said, perhaps it is for the better. Homeless people sleeping at corners of Leicester Square, people asking for spare change around Tottenham Court and Soho Square . . . etc. London is a city which is clearly struggling to cope with problems brought about by its own vibrancy.
The one thing which sticks in my mind is Chinatown, filled with bullshit Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai restaurant selling fake asian food to gullible white men and desperate asians like me. I just paid S$15 for a plate of fried pork kway teo which didn't taste anywhere good enough to justify its hefty price tag. But the Chinese people in Chinatown really pissed me off, especially the young asians who are studying in London. These young asians (I think some are Singaporeans) have long forgotten about their roots and have adopted some bullshit British accent. Many are also super rich, clearly belonging to some elite families in Singapore, Malaysia or China. The young guys are driving porsches and the latest models from Audi. The girls are clinging on to their ang moh white or latino looking boyfriends as if they are starfishes gasping for breath. They thumbed their noses whenever they saw some asian guys who gave them a glance on the streets, probably thinking that they have graduated to the white men "class". In the restaurant, I also overheard a young couple; the boy actually flew all the way from Singapore just to see his girlfriend who is studying in London. He was afraid that his girlfriend would forget him. The girl didn't look interested in him at all, so I think the cause was long lost already.
Rich asian kids studying overseas; don't you just love them all for being dumbasses? No wonder many of them don't want to come back to Singapore.
The one thing which sticks in my mind is Chinatown, filled with bullshit Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai restaurant selling fake asian food to gullible white men and desperate asians like me. I just paid S$15 for a plate of fried pork kway teo which didn't taste anywhere good enough to justify its hefty price tag. But the Chinese people in Chinatown really pissed me off, especially the young asians who are studying in London. These young asians (I think some are Singaporeans) have long forgotten about their roots and have adopted some bullshit British accent. Many are also super rich, clearly belonging to some elite families in Singapore, Malaysia or China. The young guys are driving porsches and the latest models from Audi. The girls are clinging on to their ang moh white or latino looking boyfriends as if they are starfishes gasping for breath. They thumbed their noses whenever they saw some asian guys who gave them a glance on the streets, probably thinking that they have graduated to the white men "class". In the restaurant, I also overheard a young couple; the boy actually flew all the way from Singapore just to see his girlfriend who is studying in London. He was afraid that his girlfriend would forget him. The girl didn't look interested in him at all, so I think the cause was long lost already.
Rich asian kids studying overseas; don't you just love them all for being dumbasses? No wonder many of them don't want to come back to Singapore.
posted by Captain Obvious at 2:34 PM
1 Comments:
sounds like a sad place...
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