走在新加坡的大街小巷,迎面而来的大多是华人的面孔,以至有时让我常常忘记身在异国。当我操着英文跟同事谈工作,或者和出租汽车司机用中文聊天的时候,彼此口音的差异却总是不断提醒自己与当地人的区别。带着这样一种距离感,我在这个岛国一天天认真又疏离地生活着,对于新加坡的 Walking in the streets of Singapore, most of the oncoming faces are Chinese, sometimes making me often forget that I am in a foreign country. When I speak English to work with a colleague or chat with a taxi driver in Chinese, the difference in accents between each other always reminds me of the difference from the locals. With such a sense of distance, I live a serious and alienated life in this island country day by day. For Singapore