Being a Singaporean

1. Drinking distilled urine with a pinch of chlorine is legal.

2. Our national icon, the Merlion, isn't real.

3. Other nationalities mock us as people that we live in pigeon holes.

4. Taxi drivers is the #3 killer of Singaporeans next to heart attacks and cancer.

5. Queuing up is an official sport.

6. A sale is not about buying cheap stuff, it is a matter of getting in through the door first, snatch the item and place it in your bag and decide later whether you want to buy it.

7. Singaporeans are brainless as we need government campaigns to remind us how to flush the toilet and when to have babies.

8. Foreigners assume that Singapore is part of Greater China or somewhere in the Gobi desert.

9. Singaporeans pay for a piece of paper, a Certificate of Entitlement, that costs as much as the car.

10. We spent 400 million dollars to build a glass durian as a national wonder.

All the above was written by me and was done in jest, exploring the light side of what Singaporean life has to offer.

- Benjamin