Me Time!

[Estéema]

Yes. Avoiding Asia cruise after latest negative experience. Again, it’s difference in culture & u’stand’g. Also, nationals of these hv to be given more time to come up to level with their behaviors towards more conscious of & consideration for other users in the same space.

[lee_yl]

Joyymum\" post_id=\"1900750\" time=\"1551524087\" user_id=\"134876:

MP,

I like their conversation/dialogue !
I find my mandarin improved leh coz their Chinese is not like our local drama short cut kind not cheem enough

I learnt a great deal by watching China drama. Language and culture. You realised that Wah SG suddenly becomes smaller. Shanghai and Beijing is big and modern not to mention the rest of China and the rest of the world.

DH travels a lot to Shanghai and Beijing Temptations are everywhere. :nailbite:
Of course if one wants to have EMA don’t need to travel so far la can happen anywhere

Me: Last time remember you told me XX大饭店 got prostitute pass you a name card at the hotel lift lobby right? Was it Beijing or Shanghai?

DH: Oh... But this is not EMA leh. Aiya, Beijing and Shanghai both have. They could be found around the hotel atrium or just outside the hotel.

Me: Ya hor, so this is called one night stand? Ehh... How come you told me about the Beijing one but not the Shanghai one huh?

DH: Wah, so late already ah, I need to go for my evening run liao. :siam: :siam:

Shanghai and Beijing are both really, really prosperous!

[MrsKiasu]

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1900763\" time=\"1551529355\" user_id=\"17023:

Joyymum\" post_id=\"1900750\" time=\"1551524087\" user_id=\"134876:

MP,

I like their conversation/dialogue !
I find my mandarin improved leh coz their Chinese is not like our local drama short cut kind not cheem enough

I learnt a great deal by watching China drama. Language and culture. You realised that Wah SG suddenly becomes smaller. Shanghai and Beijing is big and modern not to mention the rest of China and the rest of the world.

DH travels a lot to Shanghai and Beijing Temptations are everywhere. :nailbite:
Of course if one wants to have EMA don’t need to travel so far la can happen anywhere

Me: Last time remember you told me XX大饭店 got prostitute pass you a name card at the hotel lift lobby right? Was it Beijing or Shanghai?

DH: Oh... But this is not EMA leh. Aiya, Beijing and Shanghai both have. They could be found around the hotel atrium or just outside the hotel.

Me: Ya hor, so this is called one night stand? Ehh... How come you told me about the Beijing one but not the Shanghai one huh?

DH: Wah, so late already ah, I need to go for my evening run liao. :siam: :siam:

Shanghai and Beijing are both really, really prosperous!

:rotflmao: I used to ask dh occassionally (not so often now) and usually his reply will be not so free arh..a

[starlight1968sg]

Hmm… I like Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou though.

[lee_yl]

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1900771\" time=\"1551533321\" user_id=\"14025:

Hmm... I like Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou though.

DH commented that Xiamen is similar to Taiwan, nice place to retire in. I have not been there. Maybe one day I will go and take a look. But highly unlikely I will retire anywhere outside Singapore.

[MrsKiasu]

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1900791\" time=\"1551576382\" user_id=\"17023:

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1900771\" time=\"1551533321\" user_id=\"14025:

Hmm... I like Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou though.

DH commented that Xiamen is similar to Taiwan, nice place to retire in. I have not been there. Maybe one day I will go and take a look. But highly unlikely I will retire anywhere outside Singapore.

I think we likely retire in Singapore too, a place we are comfortable with.

[lee_yl]

Estéema\" post_id=\"1900761\" time=\"1551528659\" user_id=\"66413:

Yes. Avoiding Asia cruise after latest negative experience. Again, it’s difference in culture & u’stand’g. Also, nationals of these hv to be given more time to come up to level with their behaviors towards more conscious of & consideration for other users in the same space.

During our last Royal Caribbean cruise trip, it was overflowing with Indian tourists who likely took a flight to Singapore just to board the ship. It was so suffocating and in the buffet served, there were more Indian dishes than other forms of cuisine.

Someone told me, in RC it’s either you meet the tons of tourists from China or India, you choose lor. Lol.

[starlight1968sg]

Be it PRC or Indians, we shld be glad that they are here to spend. Imagine each spent $100 per day and the GST collected …

[Joyymum]

Yes! The Royal Caribbean cruise !


Luckily we booked the family suite and hence we always hide ourselves in the Vip lounge away from the PRC and Indians

[Estéema]

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1900791\" time=\"1551576382\" user_id=\"17023:

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1900771\" time=\"1551533321\" user_id=\"14025:

Hmm... I like Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou though.

DH commented that Xiamen is similar to Taiwan, nice place to retire in. I have not been there. Maybe one day I will go and take a look. But highly unlikely I will retire anywhere outside Singapore.

What attracts yr DH to Xiamen? S’times it looks good as places of interest as outsiders, but to stay long, might end up getting used to “their ways”, if u know what I mean.

Retiring in a place means you’ll hv yr daily food there. If you cook, there’s also concern abt their food (esp meat stuff) & hygiene or what’s sold in the wet mkt. eating out may be an experience but street food may come st our health’s cost. Had a young staff who just wanna enjoy local experience, end up she had parasites diagnosed only after her 2-year sojourn in China, when she returned & had been loosing weight even with big appetites.

Whilst in China, I had watched their consumer education programs. The ‘detectives’ unearth dirty practices of unhygienic prep (even those sent to high class restaurants in Shanghai) just to earn extra. Cows are thrown on dirty floors with hose to plump up the meat so they weigh more for higher returns. Rotten 虾 washes in borox liquid & then colored golden to present as if high grade 虾米 after drying in sun, etc. It’s all born of greed to get rich quick at the expense of consumers health!

I hesitate to return to China when I can aviod it, except might visit my close ex-neigbour in Tainjin as she too worry abt her own countrymen’s uncivilzed ways by growing her own veg & rearing her own chickens & duck in her backyard. I’ve only a 2-year window, after that they’ll back to live in Spore for her children’s education.

I’ll stay & retire in Spore as I’m comfortable here too. It’s safe in every sense. Easier to travel short-short-term to China. Easy to travel out to China anytime, anywhere. Just register with MFA. We get the citizens benefits incl medical care & our home is here. I’m proud to be a Sporean. Guess like British & Americans, they hv their own medical care with costs taken care of. So, when older with more healthcare needs, we all flock back to hometown ya? I’m closer the other end, so can see the need now le.