You might have read this already, if you subscribe to The Straits Times or actually bother to cough up 80 cents a day for your current affair fix per day instead of queueing at the mamak shop for your "buka rokok" fix. Still, reproduced here for sake of pure hilarity.
Couldn't get the whole article, due to the need to actually PAY to view archives. Article is on Chinese businessmen in Singapore venturing out to India.
Indian Fever hits Chinese Singaporean businessmen
Ravi Velloor, Indian Bureau Chief, Bangalore.
Straits Times, April 18th 2007
Final 5 paragraphs:
Couldn't get the whole article, due to the need to actually PAY to view archives. Article is on Chinese businessmen in Singapore venturing out to India.
Indian Fever hits Chinese Singaporean businessmen
Ravi Velloor, Indian Bureau Chief, Bangalore.
Straits Times, April 18th 2007
Final 5 paragraphs:
Yet, the potential is there for all to see. The Singapore businessmen could not help but notice the massive market on display; an endless stream of people on the move.
Many were also surprised to learn that most of the eager code-writers, scientists and engineers they saw on company visits were all India-educated, testimonial to the depth of tertiary education in the country.
Then, there are the unique cultural characteristics of some parts of India that baffle the uninitiated.
Mr Ting [Niky Ting, CEO of PM-B, company that specializes in customised infrastructure solutions to data centres and other computer rooms], for instance, was curious to know why so many Indian men walked around holding hands.
He was assured it held no special significance. Most of the men were robustly heterosexual.
10 comments:
and to think that the chinese have identified veges in india, that we did not, to import into singapore....Sad man!!!! M still wondering what veges they actually are?????
rgds
dwagster
the statement in red sounds so ridiculously inconsequential. its a pity that of all the unique little quirks india/the indians in india display, he chose to emphasise..well, this.
Its obvious that Mr. Ting-ding-a-ling knows ding-dong about India.
How is he going to survive in the business environment?
Div
Dawgster and Azzy:
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cheers
Bout the question on holding hands, I ever asked this man from India why is it that indians from India liked to hold hands. He said it's a form of showing affection. Under which context of the word, I am not sure. But they sure are heterosexual.
Sorry... doing it from now on ... :)
Actually alot of men in non-Western cultures hold hands - Middle Eastern, African and surely Indian. Middle Eastern men even hold the hand of business partners while making deals, because its the best way to tell if they are speaking the truth. (People tense up when lying and want to break physical contact)
i noticed that the indian foreign workers here also have this habit. i think it's like a brotherhood thing. or maybe to have that sense of camaraderie.
All in the name of 'lau'
no its like " dei naa unneh kai videh maatendah machah!"
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