Alright, for starters, I am now in Singapore. I have been here for more than a week now which means that I have to some extent stopped making gauche social blunders that seemed to be on a peak during my first week here.
The number of instances of my unwarranted stupidity are quite a few.
In the first few days I used to behave just like i would, had i been in India. I would to forget to carry my ezee link card - the card which u have to swipe before boarding any bus or train in Singapore and i would end up cutting a sorry figure while boarding the bus. I would plead with the bus captain to stop the bus after I realize that it was my stop that went by and thereby incur a reprimanding stare from him. I used to wait at zebra crossings, and then realize that the oncoming car is waiting for me to cross first and conversely i used to forget that i have to wait for the green light to glow before i start crossing at the traffic lights.
I have petted cats, forgetting that i could be fined for it. I have almost spent 1 hour trying to go to the music hall in my university when it was just a 5 minute distance. I have done ever so many acts of tactlessness in my first week here :)
Friends were not many, a few scattered ones. They were mostly busy and i was practically free the entire first week. In such moments of utter joblessness, i used to mostly watch back to back episodes of Friends on my lappie, cook and do a bit of exploration of the city accompanied by my roomie.
Then today evening i was invited to this get together of a group - 'The Legion of Mary'
Now, I am more of an introvert, maybe an ambivert to some extent, but definitely not the kind of person who will go out and befriend a whole new group of strangers and come back and add them on facebook. But the beauty of this evening was that they were all so friendly. It was great to sit in a room full of people, many of whom were genuinely interested in getting to know you. Felt quite at home today :) We had dinner, chatted, made jokes and yes we played LOOOOOT :)
Oh, and I came home and found that many of them had added me on Facebook too :)
This place is getting better, I think I might just like Singapore afterall :)
The number of instances of my unwarranted stupidity are quite a few.
In the first few days I used to behave just like i would, had i been in India. I would to forget to carry my ezee link card - the card which u have to swipe before boarding any bus or train in Singapore and i would end up cutting a sorry figure while boarding the bus. I would plead with the bus captain to stop the bus after I realize that it was my stop that went by and thereby incur a reprimanding stare from him. I used to wait at zebra crossings, and then realize that the oncoming car is waiting for me to cross first and conversely i used to forget that i have to wait for the green light to glow before i start crossing at the traffic lights.
I have petted cats, forgetting that i could be fined for it. I have almost spent 1 hour trying to go to the music hall in my university when it was just a 5 minute distance. I have done ever so many acts of tactlessness in my first week here :)
Friends were not many, a few scattered ones. They were mostly busy and i was practically free the entire first week. In such moments of utter joblessness, i used to mostly watch back to back episodes of Friends on my lappie, cook and do a bit of exploration of the city accompanied by my roomie.
Then today evening i was invited to this get together of a group - 'The Legion of Mary'
Now, I am more of an introvert, maybe an ambivert to some extent, but definitely not the kind of person who will go out and befriend a whole new group of strangers and come back and add them on facebook. But the beauty of this evening was that they were all so friendly. It was great to sit in a room full of people, many of whom were genuinely interested in getting to know you. Felt quite at home today :) We had dinner, chatted, made jokes and yes we played LOOOOOT :)
Oh, and I came home and found that many of them had added me on Facebook too :)
This place is getting better, I think I might just like Singapore afterall :)
So how many blunders have u done yet.....wanna hear them too...
ReplyDeleteSry i forgot to save the link that u had pinged me...pls mail me that link once again...and keep posting everything related to ur journey