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Education: Crazy Week for Singaporean Students – an American Comments

January 18, 2010

After spending some time in China and other parts of Asia, I did not expect to discover major cultural shock after moving to Singapore. For the most part, this proved to be true – I did not really encounter, or experience, anything that could be considered as ‘culture shock’.
However, when l I really started working [...]

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Culture: Differences Between the East and the West in Pictures

October 16, 2009

Recently, my friend in Beijing posted some photos comparing the differences between the East and West. The artist was born in China, but has lived in Germany since 1990. I think this particular project is incredible because the pictures are so simple, but they say so much (west left, east right). **(see notes at the [...]

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Culture: An Ang Moh’s Year in Singapore

October 10, 2009

This Ang Moh has been living in Singapore for almost a year, and I think it is time for a review. I will keep it fairly short since I still have another year…
There are a lot of “you know you are in Singapore when…” type lists, so I decided I would use a different format. [...]

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Culture: White Guys in Asia – Do You Have the Fever? An Ang Moh Discusses.

September 15, 2009

So, as a white guy studying East Asia and three Asian languages, a lot of people I meet think I have the fever. For those of you that are confused, I am referring to Yellow Fever, which in this context is defined as a white male that has a strong preference for Asian females. According [...]

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Religion: Ramadan Karim! رمضان كريم!

August 22, 2009

Guest Post from Dragoman

Today marks the beginning of the month of Ramadan, throughout which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. The fasting period culminates in the celebration of the festival عيد الفطر :Īd al-Fiṭr‎ (Romanized as Idul Fitri in Indonesia and Aidilfitri in Malaysia), which is also known as Hari Raya (Malay for “The Grand Day”) in [...]

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Life: Singaporean Taxi Driver with a Stanford PhD

August 21, 2009

A friend recommended that I check out this blog full of observations of life in Singapore. From the perspective of a taxi driver’s. With a PhD from Stanford.
It’s perceptive. It’s tragic. It’s sublime. It’s worth checking out.

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Economics: Singapore’s Port, Economic Downturn, and Google Earth

May 15, 2009

Foreign Policy’s blog has a short post about observing Singapore’s port traffic through Google Earth. By looking at the images on this program, you can get a real sense of how bad the economic situation is. For Singapore, the visible sign is the decline in vessel movements. Using a special product called AIS Vessel Data, [...]

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Language: Different Meanings for Mandarin Term ‘Xiao Jie’ in Singapore and China

May 9, 2009

I thought I would share this video from the Straits Times Razor TV. The hosts of this show are discussing a news story describing a woman from China yelling at a shop assistant for calling her ‘xiao jie’, which she interpreted as prostitute.
The term xiao jie is translated as ‘young lady’ or ‘miss’ , but [...]

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Life: Beerfest Asia 2009 in Singapore

May 2, 2009

Beerfest Asia is in Singapore for the long weekend, so we thought it would be fun to check it out. This is the description from their site:

Beerfest Asia 2009 is the perfect opportunity to sample and taste up over 100 different kinds of beers under one roof. Let the beers of the world come to [...]

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Life: Swine Flu Measures in Singapore

May 1, 2009

Singapore is taking precautions to ensure that everyone s healthy at work and school. Having experienced SARS, they have lots of procedures put in place to monitor citizens, and provide help in the event that someone is found sick.
Since I work at a school, we have to be extra careful since we have thousands of [...]

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