Earthquake at the Bar Europa

Was invited to the Bar Europa by the exchange students, so decided to head down to town to check out the night scene in the town. Bar Europa is a small Italian pub with a sky garden of sorts (actually just a smoking corner) Ambience was quite alright and what was expected of the pub, although free pizza was served. Most of the ppl who attended were exchange students and from Europe. Benjamin and I were the only Asians arnd and struck up conversations wif several ppl from Germany, Austria and Italy. Basically from what i gather, ang mohs from europe have some general misconception abt us Singaporeans and i am hearing the same thing from everyone!

1) Ang mohs think Singapore is still a colony of Britain!! Love live the queen!
2) Ang mohs believe us chinese are all communists, doesn't matter if we are s'porean or not.
3) Ang mohs also sure of themselves tt Singapore is part of China, and so is Taiwan.
4) Ang mohs somehow impressed and surprised with my level of English. Conversation will go like this:

Curious ang moh: "so how long haf u been in Loughborough?"
Me: "2 weeks"
Incredulous ang moh: "but u speak really good English!"
Ego Me: "Yea w8 till i do Singlish!"
Confused ang moh: "?!?!?"

And the night went wif me trying to dispel all these misconceptions. And the general conclusion, as summed up by one of the guys: "We're not knowledgable abt Asia...sorry.." Right....................

On a side note, as i returned to Butler, somehow experienced a mini-earthquake tt shook the entire place. Siao liaoz....anw, more info can be found here.

http://www.inloughborough.com/news/2008/02/10547_earthquake.php

Quoted from the article: "The earthquake was not limited however to the Loughborough area and early reports indicate that it was felt in Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and East Anglia." Wow....guess tt beats even the kind of tremors we get in s'pore