Do u get this often?

You just met some new friends, chit chat for a bit, had dinner and when its time to go home, they started asking where everyone is staying. When you say 'woodlands', they EXCLAIM 'WOODLANDS' like they had just heard you say 'Mars' instead.

Den come all the woodlands jokes like 'Is it even in singapore?' Or 'do you need to chop your passport to go home?' Or even 'I DUN EVEN KNOW ANYONE STAYS THERE!'

Seriously, the first time I heard things like these, I was shocked speechless. The second time, I started thinking if I shld psycho my dad to shift hse. The third and forth and so on times I hear these, I start to wonder hw come there can be so many ppl who are so ignorant.

Sometimes, I felt like I'm being discriminate for staying so near jb. It felt like staying in wdl means you have one lesser hand than others or too many eyes on your forehead. It.just means that I'm not normal.

If only these ppl are willing to stop making those silly location-ist jokes and listen to me speak about my home, the place I grew up in, the friends I made, my childhood, the laughter, the tears, the loves and brokenhearts, the random shopping trips across the causeway, seafood dinner during wkends, my jb friend and so much more. If only they listen.

But they dun. To them, I'm the mountain tortoise. I'm the girl who needs to travel an hour to work and another hour from work. I'm the one who goes home alone because nobody stays in the north.

And all I can say to comfort myself is, they don't know and they won't know what a little heaven wdl is to me.

If asked, 'Have you thought of shifting house?' I wld reply ' Of course! I'd been waiting for my dad's approval to shift 18 blocks down so that we can have unrestricted view then. I'd even brought darcy there to check out the view from the twelve floor. And we both love it lots.'

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