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swimming indians

Semaj2357

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nah....it's becos others can't tolerate the water pollution - when they try to scrub the colour away :eek:
 

zeddy

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do you notice that you can hardly see Indians at the swimming pool

is it becos Indians cannot swim ?

Go to any condo in the East and you are able to see colony of Ah Nehs in various shapes, sizes and age taking a dip in the pools there..
 
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Touchy

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Swimming pool too high class for them, get them to Kallang River, they can bathe and even drink the shit water from there.
 

makapaaa

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http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?111308-Little-India-2-in-Simei-condo

Simei's Little India

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AT FIRST sight, Melville Park may seem like any other condominium in Singapore. The type which, when you fly over in aeroplanes, resembles a holiday resort. Perfectly manicured lawns. Lush trees, clear blue swimming pools and putting greens. Children's playgrounds with colourful swings, tunnels, bars, and aesthetically positioned blocks of buildings, some of which have gables.


But this condominium in Simei, one of the largest in Singapore with 1,232 units, is special for one more reason. Its occupants are largely Indians - locals, permanent residents and expatriates.


Visit the condominium any evening and take in the sights, sounds and smells. You'll hear screaming children, running about, speaking in more than a dozen Indian languages. You'll hear the whistles of pressure cookers.


Get whiffs of onions frying in mustard oil, or spicy curries steaming in pots. Find groups of mothers, grandmothers and grandfathers exchanging notes on everything from domestic-help grouses to newest sari trends and India's pathetic cricket performances. It's a miniature India, a melange of people - loud, spiritual, enigmatic, eclectic and distinctly Indian.

Mr Markose Thomas and his wife Susan are a young couple who made Singapore their home almost eight years ago. He is a lawyer and she works for Unilever. The successful couple, with their two children, could have chosen to live anywhere on the island. But Melville Park's attractions, it seems, were hard to resist.

They own a three-bedroom apartment in the condominium, which they purchased in 2008, and claim it to be one of the best decisions of their life.


Mr Thomas says: "Before we bought our place, we were living on rent at Melville for 11/2 years. We felt very comfortable here. It's like living in one big happy family, just the way it is in most neighbourhoods in India. It's also good value for money. The apartment size is much bigger than the cubbyholes in the market today."

For Mrs Markose, the appeal is the little comforts she enjoys.


The condo has a mini shopping mart which stocks everything Indian - from Lijjat Papad to Amul milk.


"In the last few years, we've visited Mustafa not more than three times, and that's only because our guests from India wanted to see it. There has been no need," she says. The Melville Park Supermart is run by Mr Clemen Tan, a Singaporean, who says stocking Indian products in his shop has made business profitable.


Many home-run businesses in the condo take care of Mrs Markose's other Indian needs. Like a beauty parlour which provides henna hair treatments. Or perky women residents who prepare motichur ladoos, vada pavs and other Indian snacks and sell it in the condo mini mart on weekends. Some run Bollywood dance classes, aerobic and yoga classes and even Art of Living sessions.

Melville Moms


But her biggest anchors are the bonds she has built with many other women like her who share a deep love for their adopted home, yet yearn for India.


Mrs Markose says: "In India, neighbours are never strangers. They become our extended family. In a new country, sometimes the absence of such relationships makes it harder for women. That is not the case in Melville."


During her pregnancy a few months ago, Mrs Markose's friends at Melville took good care of her. She says: "If I craved for masala dosa, it was sent over the next day. Aloo parathas, halwa, kheer, anything I wanted, someone would hear of it and send it to me. When my son goes down to play, I know my friends will keep an eye on him." The Melville women are a strong community.


One of Mrs Markose's friends, Mrs Ramya Prem, started a community group called Melville Moms. A Melville Park resident for five years now - she and her husband Prem Bhagat, both human resource executives, rent a flat there - Mrs Prem began the group with 15 members eight months ago. Today, it boasts 226.

=> HR Executives? Or headhunters helping to bring in more trash from India to replace SGs with the support of the FAP Traitors?


The Melville Moms group serves as a support system for the women, helping them interact and share ideas and concerns on issues ranging from raising children to domestic woes, gossip, recipes and condominium maintenance.

Mrs Prem says: "The idea behind it was to get together, have fun and help each other. Today, the group's popularity has grown. We organise Independence Day and Diwali celebrations which are for families and help our kids stay in touch with their roots. Our Valentine's Day and ladies' night events were also hugely popular. Now, the dads in Melville also want to be added to the Melville Moms group."

Like the Melville Moms, the condominium has many groups formed by residents to improve community engagement. A cricket team made up largely of Indians which, according to team member Prem Bhagat, "has lost more matches in the last few months than the Indian team, but still stands united". A cycling group that regularly pedals to East Coast Park or Changi Beach on weekends. A Melville Park Facebook group, with 374 members, where residents exchange information on rents and property prices, and share photographs.

The IT condo


Melville Park, which opened in 1996, is often also called the IT condo. Its proximity to the Changi Business Park, a hub for technology businesses, has led a lot of Indians in technology to take up residence there.

Mrs Gowri Rajesh, who is part of the management council at Melville and looks after social and public relations, says: "Almost 60 per cent of the residents are Indian. It's a great option for those who work this side of town. The condo is a stone's throw from the airport.

So for those whose work requires excess travel, Melville is the ideal place."

Mrs Rajesh, her husband and two daughters have been living in the condo for eight years and have applied for Singapore citizenship. She adds: "There is also a fourth university coming up, at Changi, the Singapore University of Technology and Design. So this place is really becoming the hub. It is well-connected, with buses heading to all parts of the town from right outside the condo."

She stresses the condo has all the amenities, but the real highlight is the sense of safety and camaraderie that the residents share because of their common background. "Kids have so many playmates. There are kids in every age group. And even if a family were to return to India, the children would not feel out of place," she says.

And yet there are some Indians who opt not to stay at Melville Park because of its Indianness. A management executive, who lives in the western part of Singapore, says: "We don't have long-term plans of living in Singapore. So we wanted to make the most of our time here and live in a place which had a mix of nationalities.

"My wife has made friends with her Singaporean and Australian neighbours, who have given us a peek into their culture. Living in Melville would be like living in any other Indian city."

Residents of Melville Park obviously see it differently. They say Melville helps them cope with homesickness. For, it has the cricket. It has the curries. And all the Indian festivals are celebrated with as much pageantry as a Karan Johar film.
 

makapaaa

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hokkien

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Shit skins scared of cold? :biggrin:
If you board sbs bus and if shit skins are the drivers than you will feel the air con maciam spoilt :biggrin:
 

3_M

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do you notice that you can hardly see Indians at the swimming pool

is it becos Indians cannot swim ?

I notice this many years ago.

Singapore Swimming Club has a lot of new Indian members (those northern type from Shitland) in recent years but never see them at the pool unless it with their children.
 

blackmondy

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do you notice that you can hardly see Indians at the swimming pool

is it becos Indians cannot swim ?

You should go Queenstown swimming pool. Those nehs from the international ah-neh school next door always go there for lessons.
 

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Namaste. You people don't know what you are dealing with. Happy weekend, namaste.

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