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i agree with him.....sinkies are poor communicators and conversationalists.....u try going to australia and participating in their conversations,holy shit....i once met this young australian hippy looking guy when i was backpacking in aussieland,he literally spent a whole hour of the purest most intense conversation about movies,analysing them,talking about styles genres,about their meanings,their philosophy,their psychology,their art and whatnot....he was a true Cinephilie,like he had a phd in movies or something but he looks like just a normal australian dude,he talked so fast and so much i didnt even understand half the stuff he was saying,i didnt even know there was so much to know about films.the funniest thing was he looked like he was just having a regular conversation.
in australia u can have conversations with almost anyone,even strangers,even fucking kids and teenagers would sometimes come up and talk to u and shoot shit for like 15 minutes.
in australia u can have conversations with almost anyone,even strangers,even fucking kids and teenagers would sometimes come up and talk to u and shoot shit for like 15 minutes.
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I would describe my time living in Singapore as sterile. Nothing particularly bad happened, but it wasn’t particularly good either. Daily life was convenient, but it was only the bare minimum of living. I had everything I needed to be comfortable, but I didn’t have anything that inspired me. Even though there wasn’t a language barrier, I encountered a hefty communication barrier. In my experience, people were polite but conversations rarely moved past surface-level niceties. Of the conversations that I took part in and overheard, the vast majority of them were about work. I routinely watched people work 15 hours days and stress over strict deadlines. Yes it was living, and they were making progress, but it wasn’t holistic and people openly admitted to me that it wasn’t fulfilling.
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the author isnt going to be happy overseas either. the problems are inherent in himself. inspiration can be found in a grain of sand. good conversations happen when you open up truthfully and honestly. people who work 15 hours have made certain lifestyle choices they are trying to maintain.