Hi Shiuli, I did notice the date, but do you still, after a year in Sing feel that 'you' are singled and picked upon, or have started to realize the fact that Indian expats by-far outclass the local crop?
Lets not get chauvinistic, but I felt pretty much the same when I came to Sing last Oct, and after a rather good time working in the Silicon Valley in the US, I was in for a rude shock. However I guess within weeks I realized the typical Asian reticense to courtesies, the hung faces in the MRTs and general lack of enthusiasm is rather Singaporean and hardly directed to you, the foreigner! Yeah we can talk lots on the 'other' kind of pale skinned foreigners, but essentially you are more talented than the local lot and thats exactly why you are here!
Do excuse me, I sermonize a lot :-) cheers, +aNinDya