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Difference between Jurong East and Jurong West
Friday, July 11
The lovely countryside called Jurong East is inhabited by lots of locals. There are nice fields and lush greenery, lakes, flooding everywhere. There is a nice rickety little village mall called Jurong Entertainment Centre. There are no modern malls - IMM is in the middle of nowhere, so it can't be under Jurong East.
The town of Jurong West is urban however, with the modern megamall Jurong Point, parks, canals, whatever. Also, a crucial difference is that we have people from many countries.
There are workers from India! Bangladesh! Sri Lanka! China! Malaysia! Thailand!
The convenience shop near my place is fully run by people from Myanmar!
Filipinos staff stores in Jurong Point!
My neighbours are from Hong Kong!
There are numerous Indonesian domestic helpers!
Jurong West is, I dare say, cosmopolitan.
Take that Jurong East! Ok la at least your place doesn't turn into Little India during the weekends.
In a rather unrelated piece of useless information, why do people frequently ask whether I'm foreign? Most of the time they think I'm Malaysian. Why?
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