More random observations about living in Singapore! 🇸🇬 

When I was younger, I would sometimes have to knock on someone's door several floors below to retrieve an article of clothing, because it had blown away and got stuck on another person's washing. I was sent because a child would seem less intimidating 🤣🤣🤣

i think it's an asian thing but that "you've lost weight" comment is usually used as a compliment;; at least amongst the older generation

I relate to the underground wi-fi so much. In Singapore, I used to wonder why Spotify advertised about 'do you want to listen to music even underground?' and I went 'but I can listen underground for free'. Then after I went to New York, I was like 'oh' when I use the MTA... I've been spoiled, sigh.

"You've lost weight" is meant as a compliment. Usually if you start to show things like youtube videos, it has moved from professional to social! For the elderly hitting themselves, its meant to be an exercise to help loosen the tense muscles!

Sarcasm runs in my family..so I guess it really depends on how we were all brought up. Naturally in my family and even the relatives, they dont really take it to heart..maybe that's why our friends, neighbours and relatives loves dropping by and welcoming themselves in whenever our door are open 😅😅 I could just go "mom dad, when you're old I'm dropping you in the nursing homes, you could get free food and people entertaining you all day long" and they would laughed about it and say "well isn't that great, what paradise!" And my grandma would join in and shes almost 100 and she ask if she could join..😅😅 hilarious the people who brought me up and the siblings I grew up with, their honesty and sarcasm which are bewildering at times. I'd rather honesty than two faced any day!

Yeah, when I was in London for a short trip I got so annoyed when I couldn’t get a signal on the Tube. Never thought I would overhear someone say “I’m going into the Tube, I’ll talk to you in a bit.”

Being a Chinese, I can give some insight regarding my interpretation of the "brutal honesty". I personally think it's actually because they're friendly that's why they speak to you with such brutal honesty. If that make sense... Like if someone speak to you with flowery words, everything positive without any contructive criticism, it feels fake. But if they're being honest and is not ashamed of it, it's because they're being friendly and genuine, and there's no such barrier that they need to speak cautiously and at times unnaturally, which in turn sound ingenuine. I do agree it's to do with Chinese culture, I actually prefer the brutal honesty. It must be a cultural shock to you, but be glad if they're brutally honest with you because they're being friendly and genuine.

Hanging clothes on poles, - they do occasionally fly off if not securely clipped; - coz many have washing machine but may not have dryer so hanging them out under the sun helps dry them thoroughly; Also, reduces odour if/when one perspire; just like in the UK, some hang-dry their clothes in their backyard or garden; - possible nuisance, neighbours who don’t squeeze dry their clothes sufficiently & allow them to drip onto our dried clothings. Even worse, if the colour dye drips & stains. Other possible, inconsiderate nuisance (much less these days), fallen clothings, dripping mop, litterbugs eg cigarette buds, sputum, etc - in the past, there were many who even create additional hanging options by tying ropes/wires between the columns in the front of their corridors. It can be quite an eyesore. Thankfully, less these days but you can still spot them easily. Sarcasm, I guess depending on the level of English language proficiency, it could be lost or misunderstood by some. Brutal honesty, - I guess different cultures find different things or topics taboo or regarded as just “matter-of-fat” (I mean fact) 🤪 - Generally, Singaporeans are habitually obtrusive in giving or making unsolicited advice/comments albeit with good intentions; We are like that among Singaporeans (not that all like it). Worse, we do the same to others too. The arm slapping, - believe that such slapping or massaging (or many more variations) improves blood circulation LOL

This is honestly a good video to remain us singaporeans the culture that might be distinct to us! Refreshing

Yep washing gets blown away. In my experience, usually the culture is when there is a piece of clothing on the floor, people will pick it up and leave it somewhere near the lift lobby.

I just love the scent of sun-dried laundry! Sunlight is free and in abundance almost year round here, so I’ve never thought of getting a dryer.

Slapping: they are giving themselves a massage.

Almost to a 100k G! So proud of how far you’ve come. Keep safe! ❤️

Okay Georgia, I have watched your videos since the beginning and I say that how you express yourself and topics has gotten exponentially better. Not that the first ones were terrible, but just an amazing improvement in how you take into consideration your audience, realizing there is most likely a wide spectrum. I just think this video is exceptionally well done. I live in Singapore very part-time as I am employed in the USA, but I certainly have seen everything you cover in this video. I especially agree with you in regards to sarcasm as I tend to tone it down in Singapore, but in the USA I let it rip knowing that the people I am talking to appreciate the humor. Nothing bad or downgrading, just making light of not always the greatest situations. Thanks again.

Laundry @ HDB: We do watch out for neighbour’s laundry (while keeping our own) by shouting ‘下雨了‘ (rain’s here) at the top of our lungs at the window so that they get to keep their laundry too before the rain comes ... the ‘kampong spirit’ we picked up from our old folks 😅😂

My dad's 80 and he's still working. I don't think he ever wants to stop working unless he's physically unable to. I can't picture him being home. He'd be bored out of his wits and would be napping all day probably. He enjoys working and does it by choice. I'm certain that some elderly Singaporeans don't have that luxury.

when people drop their clothes on your floor, we put it in the elevator for the owner to pick it up! (because it's assumed? that everyone takes the lift!)) i also love it when when the rain is coming, and u can hear ur neighbours screaming to keep their clothes in! even when u dont know that the rain is coming, the sound of your neigbours bringing their clothes in will act as an alarm :)

The arm thumping does indeed have to do with circulation to kinda "open" up the chi points in the arm and improve blood flow and all that. We don't drop our laundry "all the time". We'll drop the laundry once in a lives, yes. :P And then we learn to master the technique to not drop the laundry and how to make sure sure the clothes are secured and don't fly away. I personally don't like to hang my clothes out the window due to bird poop, litter from neighbours upstairs, and rainy weather. Having to keep an eye on the sky while your laundry is outside can be a bit tiring. The UV rays from the Sun also gives people the mindset that it'll help "kill the bacteria" lingering on the laundry and I know some people love the scent of laundry that have been recently dried in the Sun. Plus, we have sunshine typically all year round and the Sun is free energy which helps us save money on using dryers. I still use the dryer for my bedsheets and blankets though. Singaporeans can be sarcastic but the way we express it will be different from the British. I can't think of a good example at the moment but it can be along the lines of "You think I'm Superman can fly is it?" in response to someone asking a person to be there within a certain timeframe that is not possible to achieve via car/bus. Work-life balance depends on your workplace. Some are supportive of it, some aren't. You'll have to be lucky.

Great Video presentation and Observation..Excellent ! We would love to see more live coverage..Welcome to Sg ! 😊😊

Its a compliment thingy when someones say hey u lost weight , which basically means u look good , ur look better in person than in the telly etc

Its cultural honestly, i am personally very straightforward and transparent, its how Singapore culture is, if we have something we need to say we don't hold back, BUT In saying that people these days, modern adults and parents know when to hold back on things that should or should not be said, I think its the more traditional aunties and uncles and parents that just have no filter.

when hanging clothes, clothes do drop (even though we use clips). So whenever we drop clothes we will check out the ground, and also have to check the houses below and we have to go and check with neighbours to ask them to help us get it.

You’re looking more and more beautiful everyday! I swear!

I use the hanging bars equipped in HDB block to hang clothes, it will allow some sun shining on the clothes. I love the smell after the sun shinning. I think it is better than dryer. I do have dryer but use it only for rainy days.

I think that hanging laundry outside the window used to be way more popular back in the day (>15 years ago). Sometimes you do get bird droppings, or your upstairs neighbors laundry dripping on your almost-dry laundry, or sudden rain. My mum usually hangs the laundry indoors in the service balcony instead of outside unless it is clearly sunny.

Thank you for loving and appreciation our homeland!! I laughed so hard.....

HPB used to provide free dance classes before the Circuit Breaker and seeing the elderly dancing their hearts out , having fun together is very heart warming to see. At least for me 🤗

yup. Washing in the washing machine & left it out to dry in pole on a sunny day! It does sometimes drop to the other floor. Usually, u could get it back by going down and knocking on your neighbor door. Alternatively, U can make a self hook thing with hanger & string to "fish" your clothes up

Thanks Georgia for sharing your experience. Really enjoyed listening to them. 🥰 I have a story to share about my laundry. I had hung my placemats out to dry and when I realised I had one less hanging on my drying lines, I went down my block as usual to retrieve it. However, to my dismay, I couldn't find it; it was the first time I couldn't find my lost laundry (yes, I've had to retrieve my laundry before, about 4 times, as far as I can remember 😆) Three months later, as I was deep cleaning one of my bedroom windows, I happened to be looking at my neighbour's balcony one floor below me, and lo and behold, my placemat was there all curled up, behind my neighbour's air-con condenser unit! I quickly hurried down to my neighbour's and happily retrieved it. 😆

I live in Australia and on one of my visits to Singapore, came across an elderly lady who would be my mum’s age of about 70 at the time. She was working in a McDonald’s outlet cleaning up and wiping tables. There was a Disneyland promotion on and she was made/asked to wear Mini Mouse ears on her head. It made me quite upset to see that, thinking that what if she was my mum, how I would feel walking into this outlet. Curiosity got the better of me and I very politely interrupted her wiping the next table. She immediately stopped what she was doing, and gave me her full attention. Like you said, everyone speaks English in Singapore, so I very politely enquired if I could ask her a very personnel question; to which she said yes. With great politeness and decorum I enquired the reason she is working. With great honesty and dignity she told me that she is widowed and has a son who is single and with no grandchildren to care for, she chose to work. I thank her for her time, to which she replied that I was welcomed. I got up with my drink and left, with so many thoughts going through my mind of what I had just experienced.

I am working in a software house in Singapore. Even before Covid, I have flexibility to WFH as well. I think the most important thing to do is to finish your work on time. So sometimes I work till late at night/ early morning but wake up late to start work.

The hanging clothes thing are a legacy from kampung days. Hdb was supposed to be designed to mimic some features of the old Kampungs and bamboo clothes hanging and communal corridors were intentional to help the resettled villagers integrate. The disadvantage is if you stay on the lower floors, there are people who dump food or spit and land on ur clothes and you'd have to rewash them. So some families living on 2nd floor convert their balconies to hang their clothes out. Growing up we had ppl throw curry and our clothes had such difficult stains after that And yes we save alot on dryer electricity bills and we have such a hot weather, might as well use it to dry clothes under the sun, which kills more germs too

That shade of blue is your colour - makes you looks Super adorbs !

My family hang our laundry by the corridor, in fact everyone on my level do. We have a neighbour who stays on the same floor who steals our clothes and dry them openly by the corridor, sometimes even wear it out.🙄We've made numerous police reports against him but due to the lack of CCTV(have to apply with town council for a license to install CCTV), the police can't do much. It's frustrating but now that neighbor knows that everyone knows it's him so he hasn't been stealing our clothes so yay! HAHA when you mentioned that sarcasm isn't common in Singapore, I have to agree especially the older generations. We can't even tell a funny joke to our Asian parents without getting scolded😅I think that mindset naturally has been instilled in our minds since we were young, unless you have cool Asian parents who can take jokes and laugh with you🤪We're like Sheldon(Big Bang Theory LOL) I guess! Asian brutal honesty is real! Asian parents be like "you're fat, you need to lose weight" but forces you to finish every dish on the dining table. I used to be really conscious of my size because of that but now I just ignore their words. I think health is more important, as long as I'm healthy and have a good appetite. I hope more people who struggle with their body size will see and keep telling themselves this. Health is wealth you guys! Slapping arms: it relaxes your arms when you feel tense! My parents has a huge bamboo cane (like 10 canes tied together) and hit themselves with it as a massage. Sometimes it works as a back scratcher too🤣 Also my dad works with some elderly at the airport as security officers, many of his elderly colleagues, he says that they continue working part time after retirement to pass time and many of them don't like to totally rely on their children so it gives them a sense of independence also despite their old age! Not gonna lie, sometimes it breaks my heart to see an old granny and grandpas with hunched backs clearing tables at hawker centres. :( Thank you for the video Georgia! You look really tired and abit off, I hope you're feeling better! The weather has been crazy lately so drink more water(what an Asian thing to say but it's tru ain't it🤣)Sending lots of love to you gurlll!!!❤❤❤

Hanging clothes outside add to my repertoire of dreams/nightmares where I climbed on the bamboo to retrieve a certain piece of clothing and fell

Yes, you can hear falling poles during a tropical thunderstorm!

Certified laundry hanger here. No, we do not fear the laundry dropping. We trust in the almighty friction of the clothes peg.

Yes, hanging clothes out to dry in the sun kind of makes them feel fresher. Maybe it's the UV rays. Yes, clothes do get blown away occasionally. Less fortunate incidents include birds pooping on the clothes or dripping water from the neighbours' clothes. Also, people might drop the poles while hanging the laundry out to dry. So it is best to avoid walking under them.

we had a exchange student from UK once and she mentioned that they were briefed on the sarcasm part, like it is not our culture and the message may get interpreted wrongly. Also we were taught during secondary school how to hang clothes out the window (heaviest laundry closer to you, lighter ones further). We had the whole bamboo pole flew downstairs due to strong wind a few times and if items do drop down to the next level, we usually just knock on their door, apologise and get our stuff back.

interesting info. thanks a lot. Nice colour by the way!

I lived in SG for 8 years and now moved in England. Taking photos before eating is such a weird thing to do here :D

Thank you for making an effort to understand and integrate into Singapore's culture! Being a native resident here who has worked with many different nationalities it's something not to be taken for granted. On that point regarding the hanging of our laundry outside the HDB, the newer HDB flats have moved the hanging area indoors to what we call a service yard balcony of sorts but we still have some external washing lines we can use. It's an eye opener hearing this from your side of things on how unusual this is because well.... we are so used to seeing it lol.. like a public display of their Victoria secret collection 😂...cheers and stay safe !

Thumping is like a massage that we do I guess, I'm not old but sometimes like if I have a backache or something, I automatically thump it without realising it haha.

I'm still using the bamboo poles to dry the clothes. Letting the hot sun to dry the clothes can dry it thoroughly and smell fresh. But if you are not careful or alert to the sudden downpour in tropical sunny island Singapore then your already dry and fresh clothes will be drenched real quick. Sometimes you also will get some unwanted add on on the clothes from the myna. 😄

Grats on 100k!

I live in Japan and the vast majority of people here also hang the laundry outside. In fact, most residences have a balcony for that purpose. Dryers here do exist, but almost no one has one because they’re expensive to buy, and electricity is so expensive as well. I have had a couple pieces of clothing get blown away by the wind, but I have special hangers now and it doesn’t happen anymore.

Laundry dropping out from the window? Yesssss, I've seen a few in my life haha. My family prefer hanging it indoors thou as we're afraid of the neighbour's drippy laundry or even wet mops dripping onto our clothes. As a kid, what I was taught by my parents is, NEVER walk directly below the laundry hanging out, because "its unlucky/bad luck" or "you wouldnt want somebody's undergarment falling onto your head" but I usually juz shrug it off and continue walking under until i kena someone's drippy laundry on me.

I can feel you are coming out of your comfortable zone and coming into contact with ordinary Singaporeans. Nice 👍

I live in a HDB and yes I do hang my washing out the window sometimes birds will casually perch on the pole and so I would feed them raisins. HAHA

Hey Georgia, I am born and raised in Singaporean, It is a pleasure coming across your channel. I can't agree with you enough on 7:30 of the video. One time, a guy from the coffee shop was like "why have you become so dark now?" I was like what ??? But I did not anything because I know he did not think it through. I am absolutely with you when you said we are 10 years behind the UK, you are not wrong on that, and the professionalism matter. It just sucks.

Interesting observation on brutal honesty. Something for us to reflect and understand why we behave that way ? We didn't even realise it !!

Yes clothes flew away or they’d fallen to the ground level... typically we’d run down to collect them! :) But yes, love the smell of fresh sun dried laundry!

You are alway lovely to speak your mind , Keep it up with your times in Singapore , It a tiny island with lots of people's lovely and lots of people's like you , just worked up in your mind , How big the world is in this little island . Your future just started with this little island , Good on you

I do have non-Singaporean friends who told me that they are either uncomfortable or offended by remarks about their appearance (beautiful, thin, put on weight, lost weight). I usually tell them it is a cultural thing. We have a strong tendency to comment especially to compliment but most of the time there is no malicious intent. It is quite often a subject to talk further about. For example, if someone told me oh you put on weight! I kinda explain that yeah I ate too much recently during lockdown etc. Just to elaborate on my life actually. Or “oh you are thinner now” “yeah I am more health conscious now blah blah blah” So the conversation continues. Not necessarily among close friends only. Could be with acquaintances also. But now of course I am more careful not to touch on these topics with my non-Singaporean or non-Asian friends in case they get offended.

Yes sarcasm / satire is a lost art here. I love Frasier and some British comedies like "Yes Minister", "Black Adder", etc

Sometimes people who hang their clothes upstairs don't squeeze dry their clothes before putting it out to hang, so the water will drip onto the clothes of their neighbours below. And in the older estates there are a lot of crows, so they might rest on your bamboo sticks and sh*t on your clothes

Omg @the arm slapping! Now that you mention it, thats so true!

I just wanna say....girl that blue top looks amazing on you!!

Wow, the starting background music sound real around me through my earbuds. I thought the food court I am having breakfast is play some soft music.

Forgot to comment and was thinking to leave this comment while I was cleaning the apartment today. Few things Singaporeans do when we live in HDB. 1. When the rain pours, some neighbours will yelled raining in hokkien so other neighbors can keep their clothes in. 2. HDB get a new paint for their blocks every couple of years, I think every 5. And when the guys who paint the block, they sometimes get free drink when they are at the level where we live. My mum will give them packet of drinks to help cool them off in that humidity.

I am guilty of the thumping ("dum quat") and you are right it is common among the elderly because it brings relief when your bones ache from osteoarthritis. Learned this from my grandma. Wait till you are past 60 you will understand. Also works when you have a headache -try it.

The pet peeve of hanging your laundry outside would be your neighbour upstairs might be unknowingly dripping wet clothes on to yours.

I`m Japanese working in Japan. I guess Singaporean have a good balance for working and private. I really wanna live to Singapore someday.

For hanging of laundry there a darkside of it, some helpers falls for doing that mostly when they are new.

When you're drying clothes outside lookout for droplets of water dripping from someone staying above .Haha .They also drying at the same time .Also birds like to land on those bamboo sticks.

sometimes our laundry fall into our neighbour's place or onto their laundry bamboo. when that happens, our neighbour will just send it back up. if nobody is home. we will write a note and hang it on their maindoor.

The thumbing wise in elderly is due to arthritis. In sg, it's very varied. And it's based on habit. If it's rainy, and they're used to 32 degrees c everyday, a few degrees makes a diff. Hence the slapping on the arms. And because they do it when it's chilly, it becomes a habit.

Georgia, my family and I are moving to Singapore very soon and I just wanted to say that your videos have been so informative, helpful, insightful and fun to watch. Would love to see more of neighborhood exploring content as we're currently deciding where would be the best place to settle. Thank you and keep the posts coming!

Or at least he’s just saying you look different now. Not stating which is better; then or now

Hi Georgia! A couple of thoughts about the stuff shared in this video: Sarcasm - I think it really has to do with the influences we're exposed to! Perhaps it's linked somewhat to what you mentioned about being brutally honest - people are just kinda straight here. I personally enjoy sarcastic humour and I love British sitcoms like Blackadder, and just recently finished The IT Crowd (it's gold) :) Work-Life balance - I think there probably is a spectrum. For some people, work is work, life is life, and work ends the moment the bell rings. For others, work is life, and they never really "knock off", if you get what I mean. There are a variety of work environments too, ranging from the ones you describe (never leave before the boss, stay beyond your stipulated hours) to those which pretty much "own-time, own-target" or by-the-clock types. I believe that those who say they have work-life balance, simply are people who have managed to find their preferred setting Anyway, just wanted to say that I love watching your videos because I feel like you're honest and real in sharing your thoughts. You seem to really respect us and our culture and not take the extremes of either looking/talking down on us because you're an expat, or describing everything with rose-tinted glasses. I find you rather endearing and appreciate what you're doing - I think it's good for us as much as it's a personal interest of yours :) P.S. love the colours on your nails and dress in this vid, it's really pretty especially when matched with your eyes! :)

It's a year anniversary since I went to Singapore. I look forward to returning one day

I live on the top floor, whole bamboos worth of clothing (along with the bamboo) go flying occasionally. If really unlucky, it gets stuck on the huge rain tree under my block... other times its easier (eg. stuck 1 floor below)

Yep your boss was giving you a compliment 😊 The elderly are feeling achy. If it were my mom, I would offer to give her a massage.

People watch tv in their phones on the tube too despite only having WiFi at stations not in the tunnels. So yeah same annoyance people being slow because constantly on their phones

6:25 our washing really do get blown away. Once my mum said one of my sis’ clothing got blown 4 blocks away 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah the laundry does sometimes fly away LOL especially when you forget to clip them to the bamboo pole. then you'll need to stick your head out the window to see where it flew too and suffer the embarrassment of knocking on some random stranger's door to tell them that your underwear dropped onto their bamboo pole 🙃🤓 its sometimes dangerous especially with bigger pieces like bedsheets cause if the wind gets too strong it blows the whole freaking bamboo pole off tgt with the sheet and you pray to god it doesn't hit someone when it lands!!!

Rarely but it happens...the bamboo stick full of clothes fall off 😂 so we don’t recommend walking underneath the bamboos at the back of the blocks. Now there are a second holder built so that the tip of the bamboo stick can rest on to avoid accidents like that.

yes!! theres definitely instances where the clothes get blown off, sometimes they get stuck on other people's bamboo poles and we have to go ask for them xD but there are cons to that too, some people dont dry their clothes enough, some people hang their wet mops and it just dirties the laundry, so some of us hang them along the corridors instead, the birds also tend to poop on the clothes HAHAHAH about being brutally honest: i feel like a lot of singaporeans like to "joke" around like that? its not good but its just some peoples way of joking around and being friendly

1st abt the hanging outside your hdb. Yup the clothes drops sometimes. If it falls straight down u can go down n pick it up. Where I live, there an unspoken rule, if it drops into someone's flat, we will leave it hanging in the lift. 2nd, when they say you lose weight, it more of a compliment. Cheers

Hanging out "wet" heavy laundry on bamboo poles is not an easy feat at least not for scrawny kids ... always dreaded doing that when I was younger and instructed by my mom, it was very challenging especially during windy day, and there was one time when the pole was too heavy, accidentally lost my grip and it fell all the way down, luckily nobody was hurt ... and this is one of the reasons why aunties always tell their kids not to walk under the HDB "poles" hanging side ... LOLs

I have watched this in 2020! Nostalgic

you are actually the first person I come across who likes the hanging of clothes outside the window. Well one story about those bamboo poles used for hanging clothes, one actually dropped behind me when I was walking underneath them when I was young. After that I always avoid walking under them.😂

I've had my bedsheets fall to the ground floor before! A really nice girl picked it up though. She even figured out that it was from my unit and brought it to my doorstep lol

My latest and closest encounter of dropped clothing in my neighbourhood: a pair of Gstrings. Really. ;) Ever since, I'll look up the block whenever I walk past it, hoping to catch more if there are up there. LOLxxx

Hanging clothes using bamboo poles...we use the clothes peg to clip the clothes. One of my neighbour, the grand-daughter once had to rush down to gv chase of her granny boxer which was blown away by wind.

I've seen the pole fell right to the ground as the lady lose grib. Maybe thats why newer hdb dont have this anymore and instead they designed an indoor service yard.

Am 72 years young and am still working. Did retire for two years, and woke up one day and realised I want to go back to work. No regrets, it keeps my mind alive, am healthier and working with the youngsters makes me young and of course I get paid every month. And this, is how I liven my world

The arm thumping: they're giving themselves a massage. As for the bamboo hanging, my family does'nt usually hang our clothes on the bamboo sticks, but on the window grilles. Sometimes, the clothes on our window grilles drop and we have to go down to the first floor to pick them up from the ground. With regards to work life balance, i work as a nurse; hence i work 3 rotating shifts. Therefore office work life balance doesn't apply to me at all.

Learn alot of singlish in Singapore. Amazing.

There was once the wind over at my area was so strong, it blew the pole with bedsheet away! Now i make sure not to hang just one bedsheet and clip the pole down. But i have one neighbour who have dropped their poles numerous times and sometimes it got caught onto other neighbour's pole and left handing and swaying away... So dangerous! Just few days ago, her bedsheets dropped to the level above me and she dont even bother to come and retrieve it. It was later pushed off and dropped to the 3rd or 2nd level instead. And its still handing there....

I love British humour and appreciate it more since I moved to the UK, it is unlike any other! Joe Lycett or Hugo Boss, Romesh Ranganathan, James Acaster, Michael McIntyre, etc... Interesting you brought the outdoor drying up! I've lived in a HDB flat my whole life but had never really taken notice of it. My family has had missing towels and bedding. We usually find them under the void deck somewhere haha! We're lucky we live on the 2nd floor so it's not much of a workout. As for fitness, almost all, if not all Singaporeans have been fit once in our lifetime. The training for NS actually starts in primary school. We have physical fitness tests every year and the girls join in too. An interesting observation by a friend who's into health and fitness is that to know whether a guy is a Malaysian or Singaporean is to check for triceps. According to her, Malaysians' triceps are usually not toned as they have neither fitness tests in school nor serve NS lol

Oh I remember my whole bamboo stick fell down when I was trying to bring it in the window because it was soo heavy and I had to count the floor down and knock on the neighbours door hahaha 🤣🤣🤣

Here in HK, they hang duvets / blankets on the railings next to the river too as there’s also no space at home lol

Hanging laundry out of the windows is slowly disappearing, only the old hdb retains it. The newer BTO have the drying rack mounted in the kitchen ceiling or balcony instead. Too much potential danger of loaded bamboo poles being dropped accidentally or by strong wind.

Its not just singaproe actually if u go india pakistan sri lanka nepal or bangladesh (south asia) english is widely understood. It depends what countries were under the british empire.

Agree - though I am born-and-bred Singaporean, I learnt it the hard way about sarcasm and satire getting lost in translation. Got misunderstood several times!

Yes, the hitting on the body is for blood circulation. Mainly to hit the acupuncture points on our body.

I remember hanging one of my batik painting thing since i accidentally split water onto it and i forgot to clip it on and when i came to take it back it was just gone. cri

The dressing table is so nice

if the clip is too weak then yes, your washing will blow away. So it is better to leave the small and lighter items like underwear, socks and handkerchiefs indoors to dry and yes it's mostly seen with the elderly and hitting the arms is for sore muscles and circulation. i personally don't do it but it's quite common.