4b’s and 5e’s of Malaysia and Singapore

“Haiya this fellar. This one cannot, that one cannot. Water can drink not?”
- Calvin Liew

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I have a ridiculous amount of relatives in Singapore. Each year I spend about an accumulated, 8 weeks in that country. Thus I know the place fairly well and grasp the (hilarious) video quite as much.

Following that, I often gauge the view of people both from Singapore and Malaysia, about what they think of each other and themselves in relation to their peers. This relates to the part in the video where it says, efficiency and low eq.

This is one mutual sentiment commonly shared by people I know on both sides of the border. Malaysians may not be as efficient as Singaporeans, but they are warm. Singaporeans may not be as warm as Malaysians, but they are efficient. To me, truly a half full half empty glass of teh tarik. Or…green tea?

On another note, watching this video makes me miss my Chinese classmates from Bukit Bintang Boys Secondary School.

So this one goes out to Calvin Liew. In his own words, he would probably (affectionately) describe me as ‘the bastard I sat next to in my last year of high school and made me go all Halal when he stayed my house for 3 nights in Brisbane’.

Come to think of it, we actually had a classmate we always called ‘Ca Cheng!’

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