After living as a one-year Taiwanese graduate student in Singapore, through this book, the author reflects on and shares his experiences, observations, and thoughts on the local society. As a relatively young, vibrant city-state, Singapore is sometimes described as a massive social experiment controlled and guided by a ruthlessly pragmatic nanny government. Therefore, what makes this book unique are the interesting (and occasionally shocking) historical, cultural, socio-lingustic perspectives that reveal some rarely seen sides of Singapore. Through the author's eyes, we readers are treated to a fascinating glimpse of the many undercurrents and long-standing struggles in a wide variety of social issues related to language usage, cultural identities, ethnic conflicts and co-existence, elitism politics, etc.