Globalisation

Went out with Indonesian and Filipinos friend today for Filipino dinner today. Nice! During the dinner we talk about our language and cultures, especially food since we are at a restaurant. We discuss about the similarity and differences, and how our colonial masters have affect our language as well, for example, finding some Spanish words in Tagalog, some Dutch words in Bahasa Melayu and so on. It was a nice discussion and of course there are many jokes as well.

I really do like globalisation, without it, there would be very little interaction between people of many countries. In the olden days, such interaction is the privilege of rich people, now, anyone can interact with people of other countries, if they make an effort to step out.

I really like such interaction because it satisfy my curiosity of knowing this world more and the best part is I do not have to step out of the country to know more. Sometime Singaporeans should not complain too much about foreign talents coming to Singapore. There is no way we can stem such a flow. As globalisation continues, the movement of people is going to be greater. Instead of complaining about it, why not use it to expand your network? We can learn more from each other so that when we go to each others country as a guest, we know how to act and appreciate their cultures, especially food culture. Haha!

Now I have friends in Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar. Isn't that great? I love it and thank goodness these friends are the outgoing, spontaneous type so there is a lot of meaningful interactions, outings and eating gathering. :D

I do understand why people are complaining that they do not like too many foreign talents to come in. Because they raise competition, but looking from another point of view, it is a gd source of knowledge, friendship and maybe wealth as well. :) They raise the competition for us, so we should improve ourselves and make ourselves worthy competitors to them. But why compete if we can create a win-win situation? Work together! New ideas may just sprout at the correct moment.

Tomolo meeting another group of Indonesian friends! Haha! Nice!

Cheers!