Has anyone here ever met a Singaporean in real life?

Oh... so sorry about that. I think usually people in the airport are nicer and more patient than those in the boat ports :(

Yes, I worked in Hong Kong last year and we had an office in Singapore. The boss was Singaporean and lived in HK.

1 of the SG colleagues visited and we went trekking/hiking. This was last summer.

Singaporeans seemed polite but direct. They spoke in the typical Singaporean accent la. (youtu.be/5Mg9sHhP6cI)

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No

annoying as fuck

>polite but direct
that is good to hear but what do you mean by direct?
and that is interesting that they didn't speak in a fake accent. Usually we are very self-conscious about our own accent when speaking to whitoids
ok

though I have to say that she was malay singaporean, not chinese singaporean, does that make a difference?

Elaborate? Were they being obnoxious tourists?

Yeah one of my best friends is Singaporean and a fashion designer and she makes a lot of my clothes

To be fair she’s ethnically Chinese and was born in Jakarta but she lived there most of her life

Very friendly and down to earth

Hmm then wouldn't speaking in Bahasa suffice? I know they aren't 100% the same but there should be enough intelligibility right? Was she young? A lot of youth in Singapore do not speak their mother tongue well and prefer to converse in English
I am also ethnically Chinese in born in Jakarta but I moved here when I was about a year old. I know a few others like me.
Also is she hot?

Direct in that things were usually said quite stern or as an order (something like "you follow up with them" instead of "can you follow up with them?" and so on. We tend to be much less direct, whereas eg. Dutch people are more direct, at least when speaking English.

yeah she was quite young
> I moved here when I was about a year old
just curious, when were you born?

I see... Yes that happens quite a lot as although a lot of Singaporeans are "proficient" in English, they are not too concerned with the nuances of the language to discern as much a difference in tone through diction than certain other native speakers of English.
2000. My family moved here temporarily after the riot in 1998 but after a while decided to stay.

I can't tell the difference between a Singaporean chink and a Malaysian chink most of the time except the Malaysian accent is sometimes a bit lazier than the Singaporean if that makes any sense.

>2000
you are as old as me! sorry about 1998 btw :(

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t. Eduardo Widjaja

A professor in the first year of uni was teaching us an introduction course
He disregarded everything in the cellebus and taught us how to translate sentences into a mathematical equation, made us read south east asian communist memoirs only for us to insult it and his assignments were in the lines of "Go to a resaurant and capture the mood, try to describe it in as much detail as possible".
One time he went "well, it's a good day outside, let's go out."
Then he said
>"sit in a circle and look at the person on your right for 2 minutes straight".
>"Okay now describe the person you looked at in as much detail as possible"
It was an exercice to pay attention to detail. Odd methods but it worked.
He also told us straight that our university was garbage and we would learn more from eachother and self-study than from other professors
He was a great guy, too bad he got fired after two semesters

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Why did you leave HK?

Maybe I have, maybe I haven’t.

Kek he sounds like a fucking weirdo

I not malaysian weh!!
lol I think colloquial Malaysian English has more Malay words mixed in.
Singapore English is just a knockoff and cheaper version of that and most of the time only consists of stuff like "la" or "leh" etc.
There is nothing to be sorry about. Tensions were high and things got messy, minorities usually end up being prosecuted during such things, this time it happened to be Chinese people.
Kek, my name doesn't sound Indonesian at all. Most of my friends don't even know I am originally from Indonesia unless I tell them.
lol a Singaporean professor in Japan?
He sounds like an ancient hermit like Lao Zi
nice

It wasn't an unpopular oppinion at the time that he was a weirdo and had it comming
We were freshmen, came from high end highschools from across the globe, and this is the shit they have us do

Now yeah in retrospect it was weird but it helped, and he was right, our university is fucking garbage and many of us feel like we wasted 4 years here
I hear he's doing alright back in singapore though

>lol a Singaporean professor in Japan?
"Japan" with a grain of salt. I'd say our uni is physically in Japan but our faculty is on an Island within Japan where everyone speaks english
I mean less than half the faculty is Japanese so. It's not that weird that he was here

I think she’s quite pretty but maybe my taste is weird. She looks very much southern Chinese. I think she wouldn’t be pretty if she didn’t know how to style herself but as she is, yes she’s quite pretty. Never really thought of her as anything other than a friend so this is the first time I’ve thought about it, weird

Her fashion line is becoming quite successful I’m happy for her

what's her fashion line?

no

Which island is that? Never heard of an English-speaking island in Japan. Somewhere in Okinawa?
Rachel Lim?

>Which island is that?
Ah I should have been clearer
I'm not talking about a physical island, it's just a way of saying our faculty is isolated from Japan and japanese people despite being in Japan

Only had a 1 year visa and saw all I wanted to see. There was only a family health issue that persuaded me.

Oh I see...
Why did you choose to go to an English-speaking university? And what course did you take?

Most Singaporians I've come across spoke in a fake British accent. I could tell it wasn't an authentic British accent right away but they were pretty good at it.

Speaking of their attitudes.. none of the Singaporians I've met were rude to me. They were just as sophisticated and nice as I'd expect of someone from a developed country.

>fake British accent
Makes me cringe just thinking about it lol.
Also I'm glad to hear that Singaporeans behave well in Korea.
Were the ones you met through work or were they tourists?

Ordinarily I’d tell you but I really don’t like the idea of putting anyone’s information on Jow Forums

Too many freaks here, I’m sure you guys aren’t but you understand I think

yeah it's understandable lol

>Why did you choose to go to an English-speaking university?
Easy gate to Japan. I wanted to live the weeb dream, and more importantly avoid the 25% youth unemployment of where I came from. Now I get to live the Japanese wagecuck life but it's not that bad
>And what course did you take?
International relations

Thanks for the answer.
I hope you are doing well in Japan now.

I'm doing alright, getting some work experience is what I wanted so I'm not complaining, I know Japanese so there's that

I know one

He stands out even in a crowd of Flip-Chinamen and has godawful English

He moved here to draft dodge his country's weekend warrior program

>draft dodge
Based. But usually people go to Australia for that. Never heard of anyone going to the Philippines lol.