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It was a freakin hot afternoon~ standing in the cab shelter, i felt like a bah kwa on a grill pad~ yea..i sure like this example, bah kwa~ Aniwae, tot it wud get beta if i took a cab~ f*ckin wrong~ Normally, u pay like $3-4 as u board the cab~ so that u can get comfort for a smooth ride home~ but no~ not for me...this little blackie old sch 90s cab~ was FREAKIN HOT!!! yea..if standin at the cab stand was microwavin~ i mus be in the furnace burnin myself~ The scene from House bunny manhole keep recurrin in my mind~ Yes, i wanted to ask him to switch the air con to a more powerful level~ but apparently, it was alr maxed-out~ ZZZzzz....
Along the way, i saw this bus.. a normal SBS with those advertisement on it...Problem was, the butt of the bus had a giant cockcroach image...Yes, the whole butt, was the cockroach..to detail...Its damn gross, when i jus had my lunch~ n feelin nauseatic from the furnace n rockin ride in the super comfy cab~ I suddenly thought, what could be the worse tt cud happen to a designer~LOL! yes, having to design an ad for an insecticide~ I wud die havin to look at cockroaches everyday~ I guess if it wasn't bad enuff~ wad if i was the photographer~~ *bleh~
The other day i was talkin to Gary about Singlish and he felt that Singlish is a disgrace to us Singaporean if i din remember wrongly. But i was telling him that i fail to agree. Cos if most of my fren know me, especially Ling~ LOL! Do note that wad i'm gonna say is my personal opinion, note that i started with i feel...zz
I feel that Singlish is a natuaral evolution of language in Singapore. Its merely the result of trying to have a multi-racial and national society. Human learn, adapt and improve... And singlish is simply a product of this society. I feel that we shouldn't try to abolish singlish or be ashame of using it jus because our government say its bad english. Sure enuff, if u use english as a ruler to measure it...of course its bad english, but hello~ its not suppose to be english! The point is, why are we trying to make some other people's language our own? If we're a standalone nation, why are we even using something like english to measure our own language that has evolved on its own? Which in the first place, was wat the government was tryin to do? To create a multinational n racial society, din they expect it?
Singlish is a common language where, all races, malay, tamil, chinese or the english speakin can converse and understand in Singapore. If you go oversea, you will feel more at home and ease when u converse wif a fella singlish user~ While playing world of warcraft, i felt super proud to converse in singlish, cos its something we have and we own. Yes it may be a mixture of all the other language in the world, but if we actually speak it, wud someone in the US who had never been here understand a single thing we say? Singlish is disgraceful because we thought it to be disgraceful.. if u feel proud of it as a language, wad people say wun matter... This language is still evolving, still changing and constantly havin new words and meaning adding to it and believe me, with the constant flux of China people flocking to singapore to work, there's still a long way for this language to evolve.
They have no idea, how much creativity needs to be involved to be able to use this language efficiently. We shud be proud of having a native language and use it at the correct situation, and not abusing it at a formal situation and spoiling the image of it. This language is no longer about the lah, the loh..the mah animore...its much more~Search at wiki and u'll get wad i mean. Havin some China imported into a Singapore team to play for us is glorious, but mixin some other language into our own is disgraceful. Anyway, i'm proud of it, if i'm to be proud of something tt is singapore, it would be singlish, not some silver medal from a pair of china twins representin singapore.
Anywae, i guess this might be the inspirin piece for my thesis for isabel's class, and once again, Gary, u saved my ass by givin me this inspiration again. The evolution of communication~~hoohoo~~
Recently, i had this fren of mine who complained to me that he got mad at some fren who told him he was too skinny. He got all offended n started ignoring this fren. He told me he feel that he is not skinny and he is proud of his body. *he was pretty skinny, fren was jus kinda worried, heard it frm this other fren. So i asked him, r u really proud of being urself? If u r, den why r u offended? cos wad matter most is wad u think, everyone, is entitled to their own opinions and i told him, to them, u're skinny, and they're jus statin a fact....n they're jus concern abt u. Is tt wrong?
I remember a singh with a turban confronted me at a bus no. 12 when i was pinchin a fren askin babu simi sek~, wrong move, apparently he heard it. He was askin, do u hv a problem wif my turban? <--if tt's how u spell it. I believe most of u played this game, LOL, i freaked out n apologised. After awhile, i tot to myself, if i felt proud as who i m, why wud i be offended by these minorities, who is simply ignorant n dunno the value of the "icon"(sorry i cant come up wif a beta term) on tt head? People over the world quarrel over the slightest thing, u insultin me, i insulting u, i'm so proud n i'm so superior... but, maybe u shud ask urself, who is defamin the thing u feel so proud of? By gettin all angry, u admit its stupid~~ Insult will have to work when u tk it as an insult...