Back...

Back from Shanghai, walking out of MRT, I said to myself: I'm coming back, but why?
4 mts and a half I stay in Singapore, doing a job which I'm not interested at all.

Almost all my friends from Shanghai who are now working in Singapore aren't loving the life here. It's as noisy as Shanghai, as busy as Shanghai, not modern than Shanghai(but cleaner). You'll never find the feeling of hometown here, you're arounded by Chinese, but you're always foreigner.

Tina has been arrived for four days in Singapore, she was my shcoolmate in both high school and college in Shanghai, studied in Australia in the last three years, not charted accountant but soon begin her banking audit work in KPMG Singapore. We were classmates when I did my minor course in Accounting. As most of the Shanghaieses, she doesn't like Singapore after three days' visit, and we gather together to do some "unfair" comparison and criticism between Singapore and Shanghai, between Singapore and Europe/Australia.

As she said, we're here, just for experience. She would earn more if stay working in Australia, or live better in Shanghai, but KPMG offered her this opportunity to work in this financial center city. She took it because she loves this career.

$1000, which is enough to rent a pretty appartment in Melbourne or Lyon, can only get a small bedroom in Condo in Singapore...

People are snobbish, this even rarely happened in Shanghai. Singaporiens discriminated against Chinese, meanwhile, if you have overseas background, they'll raise their head, look you up. Now in Shanghai very few people distinguish men and women according to their appearance. Because people know, in subway a man in tatter t-shirt could be a talent graduated from MIT.

But, people here, they don't know that, they close themselves in this mini country.

Well, beyond the complaints, we're living in Singapore, to achieve our professional target, to learn Sud East Asia culture, it's not a terminal, just a stage of our life, right?