SINGAPORE , OUR SMALL NEIGHBOUR

SINGAPORE ONCE WAS PART OF MALAYA HISTORY.BUT IN YEAR 1965,9TH AUGUST,SINGAPORE OUT OF MALAYA AND BECAME ONE NEW COUNTRY. SINGAPORE HAS MALAY,CHINESE AND INDIAN ,JUST LIKE MALAYSIA.THEIR NATIONAL LANGUAGE IS BAHASA MELAYU ,HOWEVER MOST OF SINGAPOREAN SPEAK ENGLISH WITH OTHER RACES.

I DO HAVE RELATIVES IN SINGAPORE.WHEN I WAS YOUNG,THEY ALWAYS COME TO KUALA LUMPUR AND MEET UP US.IT WERE MY MOTHER'S RELATIVES WHO HAS STAY IN SINGAPORE FOR ALMOST 70 YEARS.ME AND MY PARENTS WENT THERE FOR FIRST TIME BY BUS IN YEAR 2012.THAT TIME,MY ELDEST BROTHER USED TO WORKED THERE FOR FEW MONTHS TO A YEAR.WE STAYED AT HIS APARTMENT.THEN,MY MOTHER CALLED ONE OF HER COUSIN ,TO MEET UP AND WE VISITED THE FAMILY.I DO NOT CLOSE TO MY SECOND COUSINS AND AUNTIES AND UNCLES BEFORE 2012.UP TILL NOW,WE STILL CONTACT EACH OTHER AND I HAVE WENT TO MY SECOND COUSIN WEDDING IN 2016.



BEFORE MALAYSIA DAY 2013 HOLIDAY,ME AND MY COUSIN WENT THERE FOR SECOND TIME BY BUS.WE STAYED AT MY BROTHER APARTMENT.WE BOTH WERE YOUNG LADIES ALONE TRAVELED THERE BY MRT TRAIN .I HAD WENT TO MARINA BAY SANDS,UNIVERSAL SINGAPORE STUDIO ,ARAB STREETS,GEYLANG AND FEW PLACES.

WE AS FOREIGNER,WE NOT SURE TO SPEAK MALAY OR NOT.WE DOUBT THEIR RACE AFTER WE SEEING THEM NOT WEARING HIJAB OR KOPIAH.UNLESS WE HEAR THEY SPEAK IN MALAY.OTHER THAN THAT,WE NEED TO SPEAK ENGLISH.NOT ALL DIFFERENT RACES KNOW HOW TO SPEAK MALAY.SOME OF THEM CAN SPEAK MALAY.MOST OF THE TIME IN SCHOOL,THEY PREFER USING ENGLISH TO LEARN AND TEACH.

FROM KUALA LUMPUR TO SINGAPORE,IT TAKES 5 HOURS.IF YOU WERE FROM JOHOR BAHRU,JOHOR,EASY FOR YOU TO TRAVEL THERE BECAUSE SO NEAR.BUT NEED TO GET THROUGH IMMIGRATION CENTRE ,WOODLANDS.WHICH MEANS,YOU NEED PASSPORT.IF YOU WORKING IN SINGAPORE AND STAYING AT JOHOR BAHRU,IT TAKES LONG TIME TO REACH THE WORK PLACE.EVEN YOU TRAVEL FROM 5AM,YET STILL YOU REACH YOUR WORK PLACE AROUND 9 OR 10 AM.IT IS SUCH TRAFFIC JAM.SINGAPOREAN LIKES TO COME OVER MALAYSIA ON HOLIDAYS OR WEEKEND.