Comments on: Singapore in Germany?

By: Surya

Surya — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:24:08 +0000

yes, I can, Missega..:)
Thanks for stopping by.

By: missega

missega — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:04:45 +0000

Hey!

I must admit that before I went to Singapore to work I wasn’t sure where it exactly was! I’m from France and I knew Singapore was in Asia but where exactly… Big mistery!! And I’m not the only one among the young people that move to Singapore to work.

Singapore is so small!! Could you guys tell me where is Luxembourg, Lichtenstein or Monaco?!! I would be surprised if you can!

Ciao!

By: Silent Eloquence » Now, Germany is in the Netherlands?

Silent Eloquence » Now, Germany is in the Netherlands? — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 08:00:53 +0000

[...] the Netherlands?

Catch-all

Some time back, I griped about how people thought Singapore was in Germany (and everywhere [...]

By: Pleomorphous

Pleomorphous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think it is unfair to brand “locationally-challenged” people as being “obviously-not-so-intelligent” :-D

By: Sayesha

Sayesha — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hahaha! Yeah I’ve encountered the “Singapore is in China, isn’t it?” syndrome when a CD of images for my magazine was sent from the US to China, because the address on the package ended with “Singapore, China.”

By: Anish

Anish — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ahem…for me ….even the “Singapore is in China, isn’t it?” was new….

nice blog though…got to know a lot about u and Srijth….fellow mallus doing well..ATB.

drop by at my blog sometime.
chhers

By: Surya

Surya — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

>>I think it is unfair to brand “locationally-challenged” people as being “obviously-not-so-intelligent” :-D

Its not just that – she also seems to think it is possible to have a licence just for a German city and that I want to convert it..and she works in the dept that handles driving licence..Still unfair??

By: Surya

Surya — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

>>Hahaha! Yeah I’ve encountered the “Singapore is in China, isn’t it?” syndrome when a CD of images for my magazine was sent from the US to China, because the address on the package ended with “Singapore, China.”

Hmm..I am beginning to have this sneaky feeling that maybe some US schools teach that Singapore is a province in China.!

By: Pramod

Pramod — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with pleomorphous that its unfair to brand locationally challenge people as unintelligent. Perhaps many of us have travelled around a bit – but most of the people of the world – even in a very well travelled country like Germany – aren’t really that well travelled like you and me.

Its like a computer engineer saying that if you don’t know what C# is – then you are obviously unintelligent.

Now about the driving licence – I don’t know how it works in Germany – but in India for example licenses are issued by the state. And in a place like Germany – another federal country, a state could very well be another city. No I am not defending that girl there – but I do feel that we shouldn’t judge them as such.

Coming back to some humour, I have heard more than a few times if Switzerland is close to New Zealand and/or if Switzerland is same as Sweden. Not so surprisingly majority of times this question comes from those across the Atlantic – even Indians!