China Pple. Friend or foe?

Hello just came back from city hall where i met my jc friends for dinner. As usual its only the 4 of us(Me, qirong, Zhaocheng and Benjamin) cause we couldnt contact the rests. We went to Fish and Co for makan and after that walked to Pacific Coffee at citylink to la kopi.

I bought the ice hazelnut latte which costs $5.25 a cup. Not very nice, damn bitter and tasted like milk.

Give that drink a miss the next time u go there. Then we sat at the couch there to slack and of course to admire pple walking pass us.

Sorry guys, couldnt find a better photo to put u all in!

Not bad while we were leaving suntec i saw JOANNE PEH with of course her bf.
Not bad, quite pretty but abit too much make up. I think some gers shouldnt make up too much la, makes them look old. Should look young while u still can, no need to rush to look matured. natural better haha......
Ya. anyway Joanne Peh looks better on tv and in 8 days...
Sth abt her when she smiles la...

Anyway someone commented that my website is all abt Army(navy) stuff.
Ok, i promise no more army stuff anymore k? ya rite....(still got all my complains)

So just now we were discussing over dinner abt how some pple despise pple frm China. Especially for those China pple in the university, we Sporean students poke fun at their dressing, looks, the way they speak and their studies.

I have noticed that there is a common stigma to China pple as being very studious, hardworking and eroding competition in certain courses in the U. Well, i havent realli experienced that but probably i will when i go to NTU engineering shortly this yr.
I personally have felt that these China pple are competing with us Sporeans and therefore making life harder for us.

But maybe that is a too narrow minded perspective, if competition from foreigners can drive us to progress i believe that there is some gd behind it.
Perhaps its time for me to thank these Mainland Chinese for showing me the importance of dilligence and not cast a judgement on them that they are 'spoiling market'. Where they came from probably made them the way they are right now. In China, probably everyone competes to survive. U dont keep up, u get eliminated.

Now imagine that we chinese in Spore already have these negative sentiments against pple from China(pple of our own race). I cant help but remind myself abt the many Sporeans who go to countries like Australia and US to study. Perhaps how the locals feel abt Asians there is the same as what we feel abt China pple. Asians who go overseas to study or work are more hardworking, dilligent and probably smarter than the locals there.

From my experience, Racism rears its ugly head esp in Australia . The last time i went on tour there, the ang moh's pelted a grp of Sporeans with eggs while they walking in the street at nite. That was in Melbourne. Perhaps those students there could tell me more? I felt damn du lan when i heard abt this, but looking at the situation in Spore and how we view China pple, maybe racism against Asians there is somewat explainable...