i Boycott Singapore
2010
Hi all,
i think i mentioned this but yes, i am back from Beijing! i am Chinese but mainland didn’t feel like home at all. In fact, when i got off the plane @ KLIA, i was like “HOME!!!”; as if the air embraced and gave me a great welcome home hug.
After a few trips around Asia this year, i’ve come to a conclusion that a vacation is not a holiday is not a vacation. It is tiring and if you follow a tour agency, it is stressful. However, i am not here to talk about my idea of an ideal vacation.
You see, i didn’t love China, but after this incident, i HATE Singapore. i don’t want to ever go there anymore for as long as i live; unless it is out of my control. Screw Marina Bay Sands, i’m not interested anymore.
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A bus picked 20 of us up from Johor to Singapore as we were flying thru SIA. i was about to carry my stuff down the bus to go thru the Singapore customs, but the tour guide and dad said i could leave my books because they are just… books. So i did.
There were 2 books – a travel log i scribble in, and a book a|x gave me as a gift, “the Catcher in the Rye“.
When i got back on the bus, the book was gone. i could so hardly believe my eyes. The travel log was still there. How is it possible?!
Then the bus driver told our tour guide that the Singaporean customs took it. No one should see how i cried; it might murder someone.
A thousand WHYs ran across my mind. WHY did they take my book? WHY didn’t they take BOTH the books?? Perhaps if they took both it would make me feel better for whatever weird reasons. But WHY only that book a|x gave me??? Someone tell me why 
Of course no one can tell me why. The best answer i could give myself is that those Singaporean customs are fucking bloody assholes. What, you think my one book could potentially hard your stupid island?
i miss my book, it’s been a few days and i still miss my book. a|x wrote something in it and sprayed his fav perfume on the 1st page so whenever i travel, i take it with me and it feels like he comes along too. What about now.
Ironically, before i left to Beijing, i posted the following sentence as my Facebook status update :
u buy two books & they are the same. but are they the same? think again. nothing is the same.
Having that said, even if i buy another “the Catcher in the Rye“, obviously it is not the same book. Now i’ll never get to know the ending of the story. Sometimes i wish i don’t i live by the rule “All or Nothing“.
To those who did have a hard time thinking about the ‘philosophical’ question above, there you have an explanation of the answer; which is NO, it is NOT the same.
i really want my book back and i hate Singapore, i really despise you!
