When one has been in Tokyo for too long... (a Singaporean version)

- one pauses before a trashcan, wondering if it is for Combustible Trash (燃えるゴミ).
- in a train that is 85% full, one wonders if most people have gone out of town.
- one gets irritated when someone's cellphone goes off in the train.
- one gets an inexplicable urge to smack the bugger who actually started to chat loudly on the phone.
- one pays for everything in cash... what's NETS?
- one is taken aback to be addressed as a peer, a little boy, a delinquent son, anything but a lofty, revered customer by store attendants.
- one considers a S$3.50 plate of chicken rice to be sooooo cheeeeeap!
- half a second before biting into a delicious sambal-fried-pomfret, one wonders how the fish would taste like if it was served raw with some soy sauce and wasabi.
- one wonders why the escalators and elevators (nah, lifts) aren't saying anything.
- one thrusts one's hands in front of every public faucet and waits, expecting water to spurt out automatically...