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> ART YEW LOOI <LOOI@ENG2.ENG.MONASH.EDU.AU> said:
> >That's the way they look at us. I had such a high regard for them but
> >not anymore. You just have to be in there to be insulted once and
> >you'll know all.
>
> That's interesting. I lived there 3 years and never got that
> impression. Maybe we just hung around different people?
>

You're probably right. I must say that I do not have any quarrel with
my S'porean friends. It's the officials who pissed me off and the
words, albeit false, of leaders have great influence on their people.

I was there as a "newcomer". They're so eager to convince me to stay
in S'pore for good. Perhaps they thought that they can easily
mislead me to believe that I have been ill-treated in Malaysia
simply because my surname is Looi and my given name is Yew. The most
ridiculous part's that the S'poreans actually believe the stories
told by those officials. As a result, some S'poreans believe that  the
Malaysian students are taking refuge in that island and others look
at us as some sort of second-class beings.

You can test what I all that I've said simply by going up to a
S'porean official and tell him/her taht you are a Malaysian and you
love your country very much. You'll be shocked by the response you
get. That's exactly what I did and they tried even harder to tell me
that I was wrong. It's amazing for someone to tell you that he/she
knows your life better than you do.

~ay~
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 Art Yew LOOI, GradIChemE, GradIEAust
 Department of Chemical Engineering
 Monash University
 Clayton
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 Australia.
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