Mercury, I could be a stranger to you & I just feel that you need some advise when interacting with people. NO OFFENCE ya.

Shaquenator has made a very reasonable & mature comment. He/She is right. White Knight had made some good comment too & he/she's right too.
What you don't realise is with all your vulgar and abusive words- F*king, SH1T, D1Ck, balls , you're proving to everyone that you find it hard to accept that you're wrong from the beginning. Yes, you know you're wrong with all your points raised and you just cannot accept the reality and start to jump around with all the vulgar/ abusive words. Technically people who cannot accept being a loser or should I say a sore loser, would normally lash out all the foul words. If you think that you're right from beginning, then you would not be lashing out foul words - you should be smiling keeping quite...am I right? On the other hand you're the one who raised up the Asiaone article & later it was proven wrong by both White Knight and konichiwawa. There's no need for them to show proof, you have already proved it yourself Asiaone is overplaying & over exaggerating the whole issue. You have made a mistake by posting the AsiaOne link & now you're trying desperately to 'win back the game'.

I spent 5 years in Aust doing both bach degree and post grad dip. I had came to know quite a number of Asians & whites during my campus day. Shaq was right, Singaporean and Hong Kees are the most racist and arrogant people in Aus. On the other hand the whites are the friendliest & most easy going people in Aus. I have seen a pregnant Asian lady inside a bus standing but no Asians willing to offer her the seat, it was those whites who offered her the seat. From past experience, those S'poreans like to throw a tantrum and yell out foul words whenever they lose out in a debate, competition or games. From Chinese proverbs, those S'poreans are like "Moon Hou Khau" - meaning Front Yard Dog, they only bark when they're in their own territory but outside their territory, they are all cowards. I have seen S'poreans verbally abuse those students from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia but they dare not touch those big sized white men. They're being controlled by their kiasu attitude and you have proved it that you're part of their kiasu clan. You can lash out all your foul language in this site but if you come face to face confronting with White Knight, do you dare to do it? I don't think so. Like what Shaq has said, White Knight has been quite gentlemen that he will apologize IF a RELIABLE source is given. Until now there's still no reliable source from you. What they got from you is the one and the only over playing AsiaOne article.

You indirectly said that Australians are not good but you spent 3 years studying/working in Sydney and also said want to visit Aus. Why you still spent money paying tuition fees to Aus uni & taxes to Aus govt & want to spent visiting Aus? Isn't that made you a hyprocrite? In the last financial crisis, Aus still had a positive GDP growth while NZ was in recession. In South East Asia, S'pore was the very first that get hit & was in recession. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia some how or rather still managed to hold on but requires some tough measures to be implemented.

Just to tell you life is never perfect, sometimes we succeed & sometime there're failures. If you lose, just take the defeat graciously and don't be like those kiasu S'poreans who're all sore losers. The more you fight back, the deeper you will fall into the hole. You should take the example of Roger Federer, whenever he loses a game, he takes it graciously and look forward to the next competition.

Hope that you will take the above comments as advise and to shape you to become a much better person and don't take it as an insult. If you continue with your current attitude, it will do more harm than good to you in your workplace especially in S'pore. It's better to make more friends than enemies, right? and I am sure your career will flourish in S'pore with the right personal character. Don't follow the crowd, if S'poreans want to be kiasu, let it be, don't follow them.

Again NO OFFENCE please, my friend.