Hey all... My very 1st post after viewing sgforums all the time
=D
Anyway im a 22 year old that previously had an attachment in
Tokyo NEC before during school days... ever since that visit, i
start to compare tokyo VS singapore.
Tokyo people are less selfcentered at work... japanese believe
in kaizen spirit... which NEC ppl actually likes me alot coz i can
work like them and play like them... Japanese has this politeness
that i really love alot. All 4 seasons... many many more...
Don't know how many people here actually likes being spoon feed
and have your life shield by Singapore. But don't you have this
idiot feeling that ur life is being shield so you can live... not
for yourself, but for Singapore...
What is the point of living if you are not living properly...
how many of you here has visited Tokyo before too and prefer to
live there or how many prefer to stay in SG still.
Im gonna serve my NS soon on the 9th June, after 2 years i feel
like going over to tokyo with an amount to support me jobless for a
minimum of 1/2 year and over there maybe start growing my roots
again.
Dear viewers do let me know what i miss out..
E.g. Impossible to stay in tokyo for such a long period due to
10 years NS service in SG? Something SG has tokyo don't ? and many
many more... im sure my idea actually has alot of flaws. TY TY
ALL
It is an interesting idea you have there, but I highly doubt
most singaporeans
can move over there and take tokyo as their home.
Japan is too different from Singapore in many ways, not only in
terms of language and culture, but also the attitude of the
people.
Let me list some of the common and basic differences:
1) Japanese people teach their children to be independent
from young, hence their children are very independent, to the
point where they can take the train by themselves for 15km+ to buy
grocery at as young as 4 years old. Ask a singaporean child to do
that, and you will be considered lucky if your child somehow manage
to find their way home by themselves.
In short, we are too spoon-fed to be able to adapt to the much
tougher society over there where the people take care of themselves
more than the government led them by the noses.
2) Language problem. Japanese as a language is already not
really that easy to learn, somemore one will have to learn how
to differentiate between the different ways to write a single word,
it will take a lot of time and patience for one to be able to truly
communicate in propere japanese.
3) Japanese people are very polite as compared to singaporeans
as you have noticed yourself, to them, it is as bad as a sin not to
be polite towards those around them, no matter how much they
dislike them. Of course, the younger generation is slowly growing
out of this tradition, but I will say their kids are still much
polite than the Singaporean ones. If a Singaporean goes over there
and does not pick up their habit fast, he/she will easily offend a
lot of people.
4) Singaporeans are very use to complaining about everything
left and right, in Japan, they don't do this. Instead, they find
innovative ways to solve whatever problems that they might have.
Hence, their people often come up with a lot of interesting items
and solutions to problems, whereas Singaporeans just keep up their
whining about this and that without doing anything to make their
own lives better.
As you have said so yourself, such a list will be nearly
non-exhaustive, so I will just list these few points here. If you
truly immigrate to Japan after your NS, I will say that you are
truly an admirable and brave person, for you are willing to try and
change your own life.
