[starbugstk]

This uncle trying to impress SIMTAN with his English composition

I have mixed feelings about them because I had a sweet twentyish Pinay chasing after me, calling Uncle! Uncle! with a packet of candies and giving me five. To her, a KIDDOjoi, that was good stuff but to an old man like me...candies?

I'd choose a cup of Milo O Kosong if she had offered a choice of...

But I could see the beauty in her from her world.

On the other leg, I have also encountered a damned scheming twentyish Pinay which jolted me to another reality that young peepur aren't necessarily pure and innocent.

Are Filipinos and Burmese stupid? I don't think so. Are we more intelligent than them? I don't think so. Is Singapore a country of smarter peepur? You'd bet. We imported the smart ones from their countries. Not on from the Philippines and Myanmar but also Malaysia. They call it brain drain.