Haha. Slept at 10 last night and woke up at eleven plus close to 12 this afternoon. Shiok sia.
And then KS called to jio me out for lunch. Lolz.
What a great idea. SO.. we went pastamania for lunch. Omg.. the squid in my Marinara almost killed me. Each time i ate it, i kena choke... But it's nice la.
Catching up with KS was not bad too... but pity that the rest aren't around.
But lunch was good. Hopefully when the rest are free after exams, we can all go out for a good outing and do lots of catching up. Hahahaha..
What a great way to start off my weekend. Lots of rest, good food with good friend.
Well, tonight my parent's are going for wedding dinner. I shall be guai and stay at home to do some work, cos i know tomorrow i'll be out again..
Finally, i'm getting some life and being more laid back about things. hahahhaha
But yes. This coming week shall be hell for my Cario group. Need to rush report and mug for morpho already..
Yeah !!!
Oh btw, something happened on my way to westmall just now. Realised that i don;t have coins with me and that my EZ-link has got no more money. So, i went around trying to exchange money and i saw this foreign worker. So, i exchanged $2 with him. He only has got $1.50. But well, nvm la. $0.50 only, so i changed with him. He went off to the coffee shop and when he came back and saw me still waiting at the bus stop, he took out the $0.50 and return me, insisting that i get the 50 cents though i said nvm, cos it was me who insisted changing $2 for $1.50.
But, well, that made my day too and totally changed my ideas about them. Cos initially, sad and guilty to say, i suppose i do have a few misconceptions about them from my prior experience. But i suppose he really changed my perceptions. I mean, i do feel unjust for them cos they're often misunderstood and getting unfriendly treatment and looks etc from many people.
When people say that Singapore is a fair place, i don't really agree, cos well, just look at the way people treat the foreign workers. Just look at the maids, i think many people do treat them as second class people here and well.. sad to say, i think class system do exist in singapore where many of us feel that we are more superior than the foreign workers.
Many of us fail to understand and put ourselves in their shoes. In fact, i know that many of these foreign workers actually are master degree holders etc, but just because of the language barrier they're treated differently. Many of them were actually promised of good career prospectives here, but after they paid money to some agent etc and were brought to singapore, the job they were given was to be construction workers etc. But well, many of them can't return home cos they borrowed money and are mostly in debt. They need the pay to return their debts as well as feed the family back home. ( This is not my assumption, cos people who've really communicated with them got to know this from the foreign workers themselves.)
Imagine how they felt. Imagine how we will feel if placed in their situations.
I do believe that some of us still have that elitism mindset in us. Even when we go to the poorer countries, I don't believe that none of us will feel that we are not more superior than them. It all bores down to the fact that well, we recieve good education and high living standards here etc etc.
Well, i'm one of the guilty ones with the misconceptions about them initially. But after today, i shall change my mindset entirely man. We can't just assume that all of them are not nice because of a few blacksheeps. I mean, look, even within our own community, there are much more terrible and horrible blacksheeps around. Those who harm you without you even knowing about it. Isn't that worse?
I hope that the phrase " regardless of race, language or religion thing" in our pledge is practised.
But yeah, i'm off to enjoy my good saturday afternoon, though it's drizzling now.
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