I'm not from China

Tomorrow's the army half marathon, and the flag off time is 0545, which means i'm likely going to get only around four hours of sleep. Not very good...

I did some OT yesterday and had to take a taxi home. During the journey, the driver decided that i was rather quiet after having drived half of the journey in silence. The taxi driver began his ice-breaker, "You're from China is it?". Doh....

I have absolutely no idea which part of me looks like made in China. I've been getting that alot though. Maybe i should dye my hair blonde, and raise my leg while seated in the taxi, and seeing how my shoes are dirty, spit onto the shoe before wiping it clean. Maybe then i'll look more like a Nogum city ah beng.

Or i should shave my head and wear one of those plastic black spectacles. Everyone would think i'm in NS (National Service, conscription) and went to the technopreneur building vist my girlfriend who had to work OT.

Taximan : "Huh? No, i'm Nogum-ean. I look like i'm from China?"
Chinaman : "Oh.. no lah, you're very quiet mah. China people very quiet one."

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Taximan : "So... you OT ah?"
Chinaman : "Yah, OT."

Can you believe this? The taximan asked me whether i was from China before asking if i was going home from OT. Well.. you might think that going home so late would surely be OT. But there are factories there, and i assume all factories are twenty-four hours and that i could be going home early from a night shift.

Don't quite remember how the conversation went. But i decided to point it towards foreign talent at some point.

Chinaman : "Haf to OT wat. If not my boss hire foreign talent instead den how? Foreign talent willing to take lower pay than me and work even longer hours leh."

And then the conversation went on to talk about how Nogum citizens have national duty commitments, have to work hard to increase the population, and having to do free OT doesn't really help.

And i'm not from China.