Go read Mammon Inc. by Hwee Hwee Tan! Am glad Gwen (a fellow intern in Shanghai) recommended it to me. It's a real funny book, quite different from your usual doses of local writers (equals catherine lim right?!). It offers an excellent contrast of Brit vs Sing cultures and socs, and the writer explored the deep emotions of an odd-ball wanting to feel accepted somewhere. There's a lot of wit and humour in the writing, although elementary me couldn't get many cheem stuff the writer was saying. Still, it's a refreshing read, an alternative from the usual literature I dig. And the suan on Singaporean behaviours and attitudes is one-kind man! Share with you one of my fav parts of the book. The main character was describing how she felt like an outcast in Oxford: 'After all, I had the same great A-level results as every other student there, but the smiles they received were different from the ones I got. I tried everything to be accepted: I wrote my tute partner's essays, joined the Union, the Boat Club, but everyone still talked around me at cocktail parties, like I was a fart they were trying not to smell.' Funny huh? The author has so aptly describes the feelings of an outcast at a party, a fart others were trying not to smell. Must read k! *grin*