Yeah, I'm also a Singaporean who's tried the RO mod before, and liked it very much (apart from the crapass AI). I've been itching to download the game, but I'm waiting not only for a demo, but for a box release over here in Singapore + Asia to increase the chances of me finding a Singaporean server.
Singapore is (NOT in China or Japan) on the other side of the Earth, almost opposite of America. This makes the ping for NA servers in Singapore a pain in the ass. For such a precise game as RO, I would prefer pings of at the most 150 ms. That won't be possible, though - judging from the server load, we're most likely going to get 250+ ms, resilient though the UE 2.5 server code may be.