Cultures

I love all the cultures that are here. All over the place, all living together.

We've been to Little India, we've been to the Perahnaken places, we've been around the Singaporeans. We've heard Chinese, we've seen Malay, we've met all kinds of people.

In Little India, the Chinese are eating just like the Indians do, with their fingers of their right hand, just like they're "supposed to." I'll write more about Little India later. At the Chinese food places, Indians eat with their chopsticks. Oh, and this is cool. They don't use knives, nor do they use forks much. I've seen many use their chopsticks to put food on their deep, wide spoon to eat. Or they'll use the fork to put food on the spoon and eat from the spoon.

Every sign has at least 3 different languages on it--English, Chinese and Hindi. On the tours we've taken, at least 3 different languages are spoken. Everyone we have encountered speaks English. Some we understand better than others. Some of them no doubt feel the same way about us.

Us. We are are Ang Mo. That literally means red-haired. Anyone who is white, I think is the classification, is Ang Mo. We stick out. I hate that. I hate going to places and sticking out like we do. (Ang Mo Kio means tomato, by the way)

In my other travles, it's been much easier to blend--looks-wise--but no matter how we are, what we eat, or how we act, our forma de ser gives us away. We just take up more space, we're louder, we look different, we act different.

Watching the Indian children watch us at the resturant in Little India was quite funny. We can't help how we are, they can't help but giggle a bit at our "weird antics."

But we try. And the people here are very nice. At some places, customer service lacks a bit, but at other places, the people on a whole, are very nice.

Anyway, as I started off saying, I love that there are so many cultures here. So many varieties, from so many places, forming so many cultures. And they all live together harmoniously, or so it seems.

Things are great here. And I love it.

This afternoon, we're going to Thailand. I'm very excited about that.

Before we go, mom and I must prep by getting out toes done. We're getting pedicures at 11:00. If we're gonna be wearing sandals, we have to have pretty feet, right?!