Becoming Singaporean: From young boy growing up in rural Chinese town to raising a family in Singapore, Lifestyle News
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Becoming Singaporean: From young boy growing up in rural Chinese town to raising a family in Singapore, Lifestyle News

Lifestyle At the age of 13, Bao Shang Ze, better known as Bunz, could barely form a sentence in English.Growing up in Wenzhou, a city in China's Zhejiang province, this wasn't an issue.However, his lack of proficiency in English would prove to be a problem after his father dropped the unexpected news that the family would be migrating to Singapore.This was in the year 2000.His dad was already working as a software engineer in Singapore and decided to bring Bunz and his mum over to live here permanently."It came as a shock. We didn't even have an idea of where Singapore was!" Bunz told AsiaOne in an interview.Conversing in English comes naturally to him now but as a teenager, he recounted feeling fear and anxiousness at the thought of relocating to a new country and being exposed to a different culture."I had to leave my...
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