Cars

In Singapore, cars are a luxury and are often treated like precious babies. It could be because cars are really expensive to own in our tiny island. In some case, car owners can go into the extreme at the way they handle and care for their cars. Below is an aggregated description of extreme car ownership.

Extreme Singaporean car:
Cars are cleaned up, filled up, polished up and regularly tuned. Owners will make effort to park in the safest car lot, doesn't matter if the lot is really far away from where they want to go.

There will be no eating or drinking in the car, no smoking and definitely no pets. Cars have to be parked exactly in the center of the parking space and straight! No crooked parking to embarrass the precious car. If the owner mounts a kerb, they are abusing the poor car. To compensate, they have to send the car back to the mechanic immediately for wheels alignment. It’s a disgrace to have scratches or dents in a car. Owners and passengers should always open the car door carefully to avoid hitting the car parked next to them.

If one could afford, they should dress up their car with beautiful sports rim and body kit, it won’t hurt to have the best surround sound stereo in the car, or the latest GPS and LCD screen to complete that luxury.

Hee….

Enough with poking fun at my country men. The next post is a list of comparison I made of SG and NZ. They are all in my own personal opinion and are not backed by any statistic or proofs. :)