Ambassador of Singapore? nay..

I have very 'chim' classmates.

That day my Nigerian classmate casually mentioned to me that Nigeria is similar to Singapore, was a British colony before gaining independence. (Wow, how did he know S'pore was a British colony?) He furthur added that Nigeria should be around the same age as S'pore, he asked me how old is S'pore, around 40+?

Erh.. I was frantically thinking, my goodness, what was the logo on the souvenirs when I last attended NDP??! It will look stupid to had to think so long, so I had said feebly- "Yeah, around there." He then added that Nigeria gained independence from Britain in 1960, how abt S'pore? Yeah, I remembered that one- I happily declared 1965. He then happily discussed Nigeria is 'older' than S'pore.

On hindsight.. 1965 was the date that S'pore broke away from Msia, was it also the time that we were out of British colony? Dug out some information and realized we became a self-governing state in 1959, that was when LKY became our first PM! uh oh, wrong info.

My China classmates were asking me to write down my name, they were quite surprised I wrote in simplified chinese and not 繁体字. They said by right S'pore should be using 繁体字 because of our history as part of the British colony, just like Hong Kong .(How come everyone knows we were part of Britain?) He asked me what was our history of the usage of chinese characters? Erh... i only know we were using simplified chinese since long long time ago.. what history?

Wah, really bad, hope I dun embarass S'pore furthur..