Step 1:
Start by not liking yourself. Extra points if you don't belong to the majority. Or if you're already minority, start by hating your own kind.
Step 2:
Pick on the details. Extra points if you don't fit in to an ideal.
Step 3:
Wish that you were someone else. Extra points if you engage in or indulge in highly opinionated, non-physical world activities such as gaming, singapore indie culture, celebrity blogging etc.
Step 4:
Go away to another country where you're literally the minority. Extra points if you go there for training or course of study.
Step 5:
Come back with an accent. (depending on the flavour of the decade, Brit preferably. If not, Aussie's unassuming and alright. Never american.)
Step 6:
Begin to attract too much attention. (...with your obnoxious accent and lack of tact for other people's need for non-accentified english.)
Step 7:
Wish that your home country wasn't as stressful/ polluted/ cheena etc. (extra, extra points if you start pining for a non-local as a partner, cos everyone's an idiot.)
Step 8:
Start to conform. (Give up yet?)
Step 9:
Start using more singlish. And mean it when you do!
Step 10:
Welcome to Reality, Singaporean! You are now NRIC NUMBER, RANK AND NAME. Get back in line, LACKEY!
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2 comments:
I skipped 5 and 6 and have reached step 7. Hopefully I bypass step 8 and go to an alternate step that doesn't yet exist in your list.
A very astute observation nevertheless.
I did everything until Step 7, then moved to Australia permanently and married a non-Malay. First time I started feeling I fit in!
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