
India was my home,
Now my home is called Little India
In Singapore, people always don't smile at me,
I don't know why
My other friends from India also say the same,
They say these Singaporeans think we all bad
I know this is true,
Becos the lady living near where I work,
always don't allow her son to talk to me when I smile or say hello
One day, I was washing Block 238 at Toa Payoh where the lady live,
I wash outside her house then I saw her watching Hindi movie
The actor in the movie was beating his wife and son using slippers
I hear the women say to her son, 'See indian men all bad'
I laughed. Now I know why she don't like me,
She see too much Bollywood movies and think we all bad people who smell and drink like mad
But the thing is, I'm from Tamil Nadu and not Bollywood,
She should just blame the Bollywood movie directors lah!
Read at: Literati 2 - 8th September 2006, Substation