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At 11:20 AM 16-08-96 GMT+1100, you wrote:
>> 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.
>

Mr Art Yew Looi is right. I couldn't agree with him more.


Regards

nurani