23 times Game of Thrones captured life in Singapore perfectly

Season 6 kicks off tonight, and we can’t help but be reminded how life in Singapore often mimics life in Game of Thrones, for better and for worse. Here are 23 moments when we felt right at home in Westeros and Essos.

1. When you hear of another MRT breakdown

via GIPHY

2. When you fight off a queue of aunties, only to discover that your favorite char siew has sold out

via GIPHY

 

3. When you hear the bar behind The Projector has closed indefinitely

via GIPHY

 

4. When you find out that ERP charges will increase at three gantries

via GIPHY

 

5. When your taxi uncle turns out to be a political commentator 

 

6. When an auntie cuts ahead of you at NTUC FairPrice but you bite your tongue because #pioneergeneration

 

7. When PM Lee scolded us about the trash situation at Laneway 2015

 

8. Going to work when the PSI is 300

 

9. When there’s a headphoned teenager on a reserved seat on a crowded train, deeply engrossed in their iPhone

via GIPHY

 

10. When you wake up after a weeknight Chinatown cocktail crawl

via GIPHY

 

11. When you step out of the shower in Singapore these days

via GIPHY

 

12. When you find out someone supports a different political party

via GIPHY

 

13. When it’s ladies’ night and your girls can’t get Ubers

via GIPHY

 

14. When you realize you shouldn’t have had that 3am prata

via GIPHY

 

15. When a salesperson accosts you outside an MRT station

via GIPHY

 

16. When you think about Singaporean press freedom

via GIPHY

 

17. When you hit up the newest American barbecue restaurant

via GIPHY

 

18. When someone on Facebook has an opinion on “lifestyle choices”

via GIPHY

 

19. When you post an innocent link on FB, and all your right-wing “friends” crawl out of the woodwork

via GIPHY

 

20. When you realize your house might have a lizard problem

via GIPHY

 

21. When you’re trying to get a taxi outside kyō at closing time

via GIPHY

 

22. When that insurance agent ex-schoolmate calls to say “we should catch up”

via GIPHY

 

23. When you try to make eye contact with that cutie on your feeder bus

via GIPHY