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Story of culture shock for a M'sian - surprisingly

your story very cheem totally do not understand. But I don't think 80% are living in urban poverity , maybe about 20%.. Most people I see can make ends meet can go tour, can buy stocks, can go genting.

If you go down to the real definition of poverity, maybe about 1%, but people expectations are higher now than 30 years ago.. 

 

He think it is as good as he live, the life style he ever enjoy - This is the beginning and not the end, oneself got, got a long way to see and travel this endless road.

Some Symptoms of Stress creation

Are you:

• aggressive on the road?
• snapping at people, over minor things?
• irritable?
• impatient?
• sleeping poorly and keep on popping pill?
• unable to concentrate?
• not productivities at work?
• easily distracted?
• depressed and very uncomfortable?
• experiencing ‘acid stomach’?
• tired and lack energy?
• having low self-esteem?
• having no interest in things outside of work or play?
• and the list goes on and on.............

If you chronically experience some or all of these symptoms together you are very likely under stress. You should realise that chronic stress is not something you can sustain for a long time.

Sooner or later you will either blow up or lose the respect of people around you, or you will simply have a nervous breakdown. You have to develop an outlet to neutralize the stress from your everyday living.

 

For less expensive travelling... try Philipine, travelling to Luzon, Manila, Manila City, Pasay City …where just next to the urban city, there live those young family on tree and on dirt road....

http://www.malaysiakini.com/opinions/107749

I am, you are, we are 'Malaysian'

Eric Loo Jul 3, 09 12:48pm

"People here racist or not?". Be it poor or rich, may I added..teeth53?. Unlike angmo down under. "Yah, sometimes. But anywhere you go, it's the same lah. Like in Malaysia, it's worse, man." And, so on.

 

Painting 80% is living in urban poverty (......In between the glamarous buildings and shoppings complexes of this city state, there is huge suffering that the world has never seen. "Something that the Singapore government or media will try to hide from the rest of the world. And this is the lives of 80 percent of 'true' Singaporeans who live in the republic's Housing Development Board (HDB low cost) flats".
The hidden ugly side of Singapore.

"It was unbelievable for me to see this happening in this ultra-modern city. It took me another two months to realise that what was happening in this flat was not an isolated case of urban poverty in Singapore".

Teeth53thot: This young man can visit India to see for himself and paint a huge percentage is living in urban poverty or can visit US too with S$3,500 to his credit.

teeth53      ( Date: 04-Jul-2009 09:44) Posted: teeth53 thot so -- Culture shock for a M'sian -- surprisingly. He has not seen first hand shocking stories that is happening not only here, it is happening in every counties and every countries, every state has it own yard stick, including M'sia, including third (poor) world and in every very prosperous (rich) states. He think it is as good as he live, the life style he ever  enjoy - this is the beginning and not the end, oneself got, got a long way to see and travel this endless road. Example: India where as young as 11 - 12 years old children start selling themself along the street with their family knowingly and it make sense, they knowingly many of them wanted to be able to become respected in Adulthood, given a chance they wanted to help contribute back to society as well. http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/107799 (I, like many young youths, went looking for a better future in this Lion City of opportunity, After four years of working experience in Kuala Lumpur. It was my first experience outside Malaysia and I was very happy to be offered a job in Singapore with a basic salary of S$3,500. It was every where in those HDB flats. There was a Chinese neighbour (an elderly man) and his son had no money to get a taxi to send his father to the clinic for daily diabetic wound-dressing. I soon understood that poverty in Singapore transcends racial boundaries. The whole family of my landlord got a shock that I own a car in Malaysia.

 

teeth53 thot so -- Culture shock for a M'sian -- surprisingly. He has not seen first hand shocking stories that is happening not only here, it is happening in every counties and every countries, every state has it own yard stick, including M'sia, including third (poor) world and in every very prosperous (rich) states. He think it is as good as he live, the life style he ever  enjoy - this is the beginning and not the end, oneself got, got a long way to see and travel this endless road.

Example: India where as young as 11 - 12 years old children start selling themself along the street with their family knowingly and it make sense, they knowingly many of them wanted to be able to become respected in Adulthood, given a chance they wanted to help contribute back to society as well.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/107799 (I, like many young youths, went looking for a better future in this Lion City of opportunity, After four years of working experience in Kuala Lumpur. It was my first experience outside Malaysia and I was very happy to be offered a job in Singapore with a basic salary of S$3,500.
It was every where in those HDB flats. There was a Chinese neighbour (an elderly man) and his son had no money to get a taxi to send his father to the clinic for daily diabetic wound-dressing. I soon understood that poverty in Singapore transcends racial boundaries. The whole family of my landlord got a shock that I own a car in Malaysia.