Over the straits

I was listening to a local radio station this morning on my way to work. With today being the last day of the year, it was only fitting that the topic was on new year resolutions. So what happened was a guy called being excited about how he is going to spend today's eve in Kota Kinabalu and how his plan for the upcoming year was to 'recover' from last year's travelling and then travel some more. One deejay asked about his trips whereabouts and the conversation elevated from that. After he hung up, the deejay mentioned something to his partners (there were apparently three of them) about how lucky it is just to be able to travel outside of Malaysia.

"I would have 50 photos just being in Singapore. Like hey, I am out of Kuala Lumpur!"

"Yeah, the funny thing about us Malaysians is that we'll go to Singapore and tell everyone that we're being overseas."

*Gasp* "How dare you make that kind of joke? Singapore is oversea. You have to cross the sea to be there!"

Third deejay spoked up "It's just a strait. So, technically it's over-straits."

"Yeah, whatever. Let's listen to *insert song title*"

This made me laughed, real hard.

So what do you think? Is Singapore considered as oversea? 

Happy new year <3