The Colourful Lives Of Italians In Singapore | Home Away From Home | Expats In Singapore

Fabrizio Righi was on a stopover here when he met a Singaporean, fell in love, got married and relocated. He has since become a chef and a language teacher, promoting Italian culture here. Ifeoma Ubby, an Italian with Nigerian descent, came to Singapore initially as a postdoctoral cancer researcher. After seven years, she is now developing fashion designs with an African-Italian twist for the local community.
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About Home Away From Home: Many foreigners make Singapore home. This series looks at the lives of expatriates from different countries, as they share their experiences in Singapore.
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[@celestialstar124]

So romantic, left everything to come Singapore for his love. Hope this couple have a happy marriage this lifetime

[@Looloowa74]

I miss Singapore ❤️ my husband took me there for our honeymoon in 2008 and I fell in love with it. We came back every year since and my son learned to walk in Singapore. I come from an equally small, rich and safe country but it’s more conservative and everyone knows everyone. I like the anonymity of being in Singapore and not having to deal with social and family obligations. I hope this pandemic ends. it’s the first place I will visit and maybe retire there for the rest of my life.

[@LeXx0r]

Where are you from? I'm curious :) Liechtenstein? Monaco? San Marino?

[@mikey6538]

so pandemic is over.. did you wish comes true

[@daisyday5037]

I love this African Italian lady. She’s soft spoken and cool.

[@anadieroff5978]

Missed Singapore! I used to lived and work in Singapore for 10 years. Then went back with my son almost three years ago. I hope this pandemic will be over so we can make plan to go back there. Missed the different food 🥘.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Serie A Leader Suzuki Jeep

[@excusemehello5904]

I have been visiting Singapore twice in my life. Last time back in 2016. I loved it 🥰 I could imagine myself living there!

[@ekasupariyanti2288]

I like this Home Away From Home series. Thank you for showing the other side of Singapore through the expats that come to Sg. Grazie CNA. Looking forward to other stories.

[@RAM-km8bx]

Hope more singaporeans can be welcoming of people from around the world who want to settle down in SG with their families and live their lives peacefully. There is a reason why people choose singapore as a safe haven Hope our people value our gahmen and don't take our safety security and stability for granted.

[@manithangavalu7885]

Have you no other comments? It's the same in different series, in home away from home. Are you alright?

[@andromeda582]

The NIgerian lady is so pretty and her clothes are awesome!

[@Towkeeyoh]

Loving this series but not gonna lie, having ALL the locals attempt to speak mandarin feels a little forced. U know some of them don't usually speak that way but seemed to be doing it for the show. Other than that, really loving everything!

[@littlejourney3178]

I love African vibe on clothes.i have a lot of African workmates from different regions and African countries..and they're all colorful..

[@thekurtify]

Ify, your dress is gorgeous!

[@jinxheadjo9855]

I feel the same way about tiong bahru and Im a local. So much old charm and personality. We dont get that in many estates in singapore.

[@sayurik]

Really happy that great people like that are part of our country ❤️

[@sudipg3423]

attract and launder Italian mafia money too

[@Mr31max]

@@sudipg3423 Difficult to find more stupid a comment. Try and go beyond your racist cliches, you will discover a lot of wonderful things.

[@sudipg3423]

@@Mr31max Please give the advise to Singapore government and show the colorful lives of Bangladeshis in Singapore in this government controlled channel.

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

@@sudipg3423 Go back to Bangladesh if you hate the SIngapore government that much.

[@sudipg3423]

@@Jonathan-Pilkington Dumbo what makes you think I am from Bangladesh and what makes you think I am in Singapore? I am in a country where there is freedom of speech so STFU

[@flirtatiousdisses]

Ify has such a cool vibe!

[@sk8ergalx]

Loving the series and Ify's clothes!!

[@HouseofPrado]

Hi CNA, please keep these stories coming! I, personally, is a Filipino who grew up here in Singapore and stories like these relate! Thank you!

[@ranytan6905]

I am squealing the first couple was so cute!!

[@ahyapchow2459]

LOVELY COUPLE ,WELL CONSIDERATE INDIVIDUAL ,CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER. 👍👍👍👍👍🥰🇸🇬

[@percycat213]

Bravi Fabrizio e Ify, Italiani cosmopoliti e pieni di talento!

[@antonioribin461]

Ma che gran bel video!!!! Fab sei forte!!!

[@antonioribin461]

Fab sei un grandeeeee!!!!

[@rl.hiouzkey]

Lovely documentary. Saw Iffy's running footsteps and the athletic side of me wanting to tell her to keep her feet straight while jogging!

[@manithangavalu7885]

Ifeoma, You should introduce Nigerian cuisine to your singaporean friends. How about egusi soup, pepe soup, oggun, fufu, pounded yam, casava leaves stew and jollof rice. Oh my god they will queue outside your door step for more. It's yummy and exotic.

[@JI-sy9tw]

ifeoma is sooooo beautiful

[@wl4304]

Great series. So relatable.

[@kayflip2233]

She's Italian first, Nigerian second. When you're born and raised somewhere, that's what your soul is. Your race and color of your skin has nothing to do with your identity (yes for most people it will align but it's not mandatory, LMAO). This is just basic psychology.

[@KoiYakultGreenTea]

She can be both

[@kayflip2233]

@@KoiYakultGreenTea Ethnically Nigerian yes she is 100% Nigerian, but she is not an actual Nigerian mentally - Nigerians don't speak with Italian accents. You can only form your "ego" in the place where you spent your formative years so she can't have an ego split between two different countries, that is impossible.

[@KoiYakultGreenTea]

@@kayflip2233 she can be ethnically and culturally Nigerian and be Italian too. It doesn’t exclude it. She can grow up in Italy and be immersed in Nigerian culture. I’m Singaporean but ethnically Chinese. I grew up Singaporean but still have Chinese culture in my childhood and even my adulthood. I’m still Chinese and still celebrate Chinese festivals and traditions. I’m a Chinese even though I’ve never been to China. But I’m also Singaporean Just like how people can say a footballer for England from immigrant countries can be Englishmen, they are ethnically and culturally from their native country and England. You can be both. Why are you a ‘fake’ countryman if you don’t grow up there. That’s just narrow.

[@kayflip2233]

@@KoiYakultGreenTea I think you don't understand the basics of psychology if you think you can be two identities at the same time. Celebrating Chinese festivals and traditions doesn't make you someone that was born and raised in China even if you're Chinese. Your mind and soul is 100% Singaporean. You can't tell me you are both born and raised and socialized in Singapore and China at the same time. Immigrants that move to England can be considered technically English from a nationality perspective, I didn't suggest that they couldn't. But they absolutely cannot be native English, simply because their ego didn't develop there. You can be native English and be of an immigrant looking ethnicity if you were born and raised there though. Your ego has nothing to do with skin color or race, it's formed from your environment and socialization in your most formative and impressionable early years of life.

[@KoiYakultGreenTea]

@@kayflip2233 I feel more simplistic. You can have two identities but sure psychologically whatever you say. But I can be both Chinese and Singaporean. But We identify as Chinese Singaporean not China Chinese. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYCnapuZidV6jbM This is what I had in mind that identity can be expanded and not too hung up on the psychology of it.

[@eLtitude]

love the series but honestly having the locals speak mandarin to make "better" tv is obvious and almost cringey. hope tht's the last we see of this forced contrast

[@leashapore]

It may seem this way, however this program was originally aired in Mandarin (on Channel 8) before it was aired on CNA with the English voice over. I do agree it is slightly cringey. I also agree it is a good series.

[@eLtitude]

@@leashapore ahh that makes sense. so unfortunate it comes across as such, especially without context, almost cultural misappropriation. let's hope it doesn't happen again!

[@MrZzzjjj]

@@eLtitude how does speaking mandarin make 'better' tv?

[@eLtitude]

@@MrZzzjjj not that speaking mandarin alone makes "better" tv but when interviewees (who don't speak it natively) are MADE to speak mandarin because they look or are chinese gives the appearance of an intentional decision to exaggerate contrast between a chinese and a non-chinese, makes for more engaging content.

[@tommyliangwei3724]

21st February 2021

[@clotildedecasaantici8065]

Gli piasce Singapore.🙂🙂

[@code17179]

I want to live there. and I would like to open a kebab shop

[@celestialstar124]

Hope to see you in Singapore. If u open a kebab shop i will sure visit

[@kayflip2233]

It will do well. Asians love West Asian (Middle Eastern) food.

[@estherho9453]

Bukit Panjang, Tiong Bahru very expensive place to live in Singapore.

[@che283]

Missing SINGAPORE!! I always visit SG very often and i love it. 😍 Planning to get MBA there and settle down someday. 🙏🏻

[@JustSmeyy]

Why they let the local speak mandarin, it just seems forced. Pretty sure those local speak English in normal setting. The Chinese just seems forced.

[@meqanho]

because it was a show on channel 8 (chinese channel) and had chinese narration over too, before it was published by cna which is more international, so they changed the narration voice over language to english!

[@ellahosokawa4663]

Nice

[@ziyination1388]

Wow he stay in bukitpanjang

[@charlie-ot5ug]

No kids? I came here to see the kids.

[@mdee8784]

Funny every time I over hear an Australian accent in Singapore when I turn around it’s an Asian person. Singapore has a long way to go in the racial diversity stakes as measured by the Chinese lady relating about Singaporeans staring at her White Italian husband when they first saw him..

[@huefamilycuocsongsingapore96]

👍👍👍

[@junlew2296]

Good life ..enjoy ya..got $$$ too much...

[@Coco-to5jj]

Joanne is lucky that Fabrizio was willing to move to Singapore to settle. When one of my aunties married a British guy 20 years ago, the guy didn’t want to settle down in our country. Demanding to be given a great position as at least a “manager” and went to pub almost everyday, wasting money. In reality he was just a brick layer. Nothing wrong with that, but he was just lazy. They finally went back to the UK. My aunty said ok. When she was in the Uk, he didnt do much work, lazy, and abusive to my aunty. He and his immediate family told my aunty to go back to our country, with no penny provided. She had to ask for money from my mum to buy plane ticket. So much for a foreign husband of hers. Karmatic. What goes around comes around

[@itshiranofficialsg1988]

Semak

[@jarrodyuki7081]

legalize public urination and class c durgs.

[@victorvaldez760]

JBW in singapore and everything is easy

[@MrZzzjjj]

I do not understand the point of this kind of shows. it almost gives the vibe that the average joes from america or italy are so superior and even they settle in singapore, so we are so proud of having white people settling in our country. This is colonial mentality hangover. Please, have some more self esteem.

[@sidewalkslam]

On the contrary it actually shows that SOME of them do make an effort to integrate. I get your grief about other "AMDKs" but don't let it overwhelm reason. Colonial mentality is a misnomer as the locals did fight against having the colonial masters' invasion and not roll out red carpets. But then again...even an 80+ year old ah ma (Ms Peh's mum!) is more open-minded than you are la.

[@MrZzzjjj]

@Daniel Lim you got it wrong. i have no problem with foreigners. i am just not a fan of the attitude of locals sucking up to any foreigners whose skin color is different from ours living in this country.

[@Naomi-fb1ej]

This series doesn't just feature white immigrants, if you watched the video even 5 min in, they talk to a nigerian woman who moved here. There's also episodes with Japanese, Phillipino immigrants iirc

[@namehere4954]

I wish they'd charge these people an exorbitant amount of money for trash they leave on that mountain.

[@jonathanstupidcheesespaghetti]

This series is absurd, I hate it.

[@manithangavalu7885]

Are you a Loner?

[@jonathanstupidcheesespaghetti]

@@manithangavalu7885 im not a loner MANITHANGAVALUUU

[@sktoh4469]

@@jonathanstupidcheesespaghettiYou Yindian?

[@NonyaMeeSiamLOL]

As a Singaporean I feel so so sorry for the Italians who moved to this hot, tiny, crowded, expensive, boring and repressive island. Especially those naive ones who moved for some man or woman. My god. Nobody is worth that.

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

You are depressed.

[@NonyaMeeSiamLOL]

@@Jonathan-Pilkington Not really. I’m realistic. That’s different from “depressed”. I have a back up to get out. Most Singaporeans don’t. Most of those are in delusion, so not in any “depression”. The ones not in delusion and who are realistic, and have no way of getting out, are “depressed”.

[@jinxheadjo9855]

Im a local so yeah, not gonna lie about some things here that are rather typical and like you said "boring". But you have an unhealthy balance of reality and being positive in finding something fantastic in something boring. You are just taking things at face value and never dig deep into the beauty of many "boring" things. So if youre gonna judge things based on your own beliefs, things anywhere and everywhere will always be boring for you.

[@mkngpauline]

I wish you can go somewhere you are happy about and not project your own immaturity and unhappiness on others. You are free to go, dont let this repressive island hold you back and good luck!

[@Hello-bq8dx]

What’s purpose of this . Why not cover people who are unhappy n suffering from Covid.

[@TheTinyRedDot]

the purpose might be to bring some joy to people who actually find joy in seeing people who are happy and not suffering? But by by no means is that exhaustive. Pure speculation on my part.

[@celestialstar124]

I enjoy such positive topic. It's way better than the negative topics that provoke Hate and racism.

[@littlelee9391]

Too many forigners. Locals left 40%. Sorry please don't come.

[@buddhasattva]

Wah. You not foreigners? Read Singapore's history. Read about Singapore's Malay monachy. Do you know? Open your mind. I don't want to comment but can't resist. Hope you are well.

[@littlelee9391]

@@buddhasattva don't talk cock

[@celestialstar124]

1 Singapore loving foreigner is way better than 100 haters who hate their own country. We dont need haters in Singapore. They can move to wherever they like.

[@littlelee9391]

@@celestialstar124 sorry local left 40%. Nothing about hate. No country's government will allow this. Government spread hate the most. Racist against tudong. Racist against 南大. Spread hate on smoker, pmd rider(posters still around like communist), spread hate on navy anty. I love forigners when they don't affects locals. Even now I don't hate them. But sorry please don't come. SG is too small. This is the doing and effects of government's doing. You government trolls stops spread hate against local.

[@lenitaa7938]

@@littlelee9391 Why don't you have more children then?🤔 😁💕 Then your population will grow!