🇸🇬 10 Things Every Singaporean Does Overseas (Be Honest 😂✈️)

Every trip somehow turns us into the exact same person… 😂

✈️ Converting every price back to SGD

🛒 Buying snacks from the local supermarket

📸 Taking 100 photos before eating

🥵 Walking 30k steps then saying, “Tomorrow we rest.”

I didn’t realise how many of these were such Singaporean habits until I started travelling more. 😭

Okay, be honest…

Which one are you MOST guilty of? 👀👇

Save this for your next trip and send it to your travel buddy who’s definitely doing all of these. 😂

#Lemon8SG #Singapore #Singaporeans #TravelHumour

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