Day 10 – Hmm
Life had become a routine since the week started. It is school, home, dinner, relax, sleep and the loop goes on. I have nothing really exciting to write about so I am gonna write about their culture and people here.
So far, i've been here for more than a week already. Met and was introduced to about 10 over people. All of them are very friendly, they like to interact and talk about life and stuff unlike Singapore where people are always treating each other as stranger and always afraid to make conversation because their mum taught them that when they are young not to talk to stranger or they will get aducted. I am very sure your mum told u that before but the point is, people are nice here.
For example, last week when shopping for dinner ingredient, we were at the cake section choosing a cake as dessert. We were contemplating lemon cheesecake, strawberry trifle or some other cake. While we were in the midst of looking through the choices, this kind and sweet old lady, just came up to us and told us that the fruit cake is not bad. Said she tried it before and it was quite good. And she just smiled at us and left without buying anything from the cake section. We thanked her off course but we didn't buy the fruit cake. That's not the point, the point is that people here are friendly and nice.
Another example which reflect this kind and friendly attitude would be the driver here, it is totally different from Singapore. In Carlow, there's only 30k people living here, so the land is quite big and traffic light are quite rare to see let alone zebra crossing. So when crossing the road, most of the time we have to jay walk and in Singapore, if u do that, most likely u would get horned at or you just have to wait a while because in Singapore, traffic light is everywhere and sooner or later, cars will stop.
Here, as long as you look like you want to cross the road, the car would automatically slow down and stop for you to cross the road. No honking, no middle finger, just a friendly hand sign for u to cross and you just return a thank you hand sign back. We tried that about 10 over times and it is always the same.
The culture difference makes me wonder, is Singaporean really selfish or are the people here just too friendly? Hmmm.. Something to ponder about.
Time for bed! I will dedicate tmr post for food which we cooked over the week and pictures of it 
November 27th, 2009 - 12:41
Green cross code: Look left, look right, look left again. Only then you may cross the road. Jay-walking is such an American idea
Also, we never forget this code as its taught to us in Primary School. And the “Green Cross Code Man” was the same guy who played Darth Vader. I’m not joking!
Anyway, glad you like the people and the place! Its a bit different to Singapore, but Irish people are like Scots or nothern English, much friendlier!