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Geezz if a Masai warrior family from Africa or a Eskimo family from eastern Siberia come stay next to me I must go find out what they diet is, their culture and what they do during freetime (hunt lions/seals?). These days really tough being Singaporeans... On top of having to accommodate these FTs unwillingly, one must also tolerate their vocalness plus to learn their culture some more... Pai tan... Later must go downstairs to my new Chengdu neighbour to find out about them and why they like to talk so loud and smoke so many ciggies a day and most puzzling of all, having many of their compatriots coming over their place on Sundays to have a good time and making our small neighborhood a noisy market... But this writter is quite contradicting also when he mentioned foreigners forming their own enclaves and does not mix around with locals. So where does he stand? From ST Forum: http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/...ory_733000.html Roadblocks to a multicultural Singapore Published on Nov 12, 2011

Two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw, lived in a maze. Every morning they would put their jogging suits and running shoes on and scurry over to Cheese Station C, where they each found their own kind of cheese. Sniff and Scurry would keep their running shoes tied around their necks so they could put them on fast and head over to their cheese. Hem and Haw would do the same, but after some time they stopped wearing the shoes around their necks and even put them away. They would get to Cheese Station C later and later everyday and took their cheese for granted. Haw would write his thoughts on the wall, and wrote