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Saturday, August 29, 2009
I am not a Singaporean. well, not really.... I am born in Singapore and basically am a singaporean. But what i actually am blogging about is that singaporeans are labelled as 'kiasu', 'complains and being unsatisfied',the famous 'singlish' and their good ol' 'HDB flats'. Firstly, queues are something VERY common in singapore when it comes to FREE GIFTS. Undeniably, everybody LOVES free stuffs, but queuing for a few hours just to get a free stick of cotton candy....??
Sorry, definitely not me. I don't think i would want to waste even 30 minutes queuing for cotton candy. You know what they say, 'time is VERY precious'. I was watching a video about testing singaporeans and a tent was set up just with notices put up 'Free gift entitled to each person, please queue up' and in no time, a queue began to form! People from teens to old. When asked why were they queuing and what will they be getting, most answers were 'i dont know, it doesn't matter too, it's free!' It's almost ridiculous to me that people can wait so long to get something small and meaningless for free! During my brother's first day of National Service, my parents were there. They had free food for people who came, which consisted of some pie, fried rice and milo(i think). My parents didn't want their share as they have eaten beforehand but my mum was shocked to see people bringing back food! It was okay if there was containers or plastic bags for the food but NO! There wasn't! Just disposable plates and cups. My mum said that there were quite a few people going back to pile food up and bring them home holding the plates ... and cups. Forgive me if i have offended anyone of you but.. Honestly! Ofcourse there's let's not leave out the 'using tissue paper to reserve seats in a hawker centre'!
Secondly, the complains that singaporeans dish out! It's completely unbelieveable! I went to Europe last year and i was with a tour. There was this 'pairing with China' event or thing so you have to just pay $50 and you get a week to China. Apparently, many of us didn't want to go cause of... Well so, there was this particular family that didn't know of this and so was going back to Singapore on the day when we were flying to China. Mum of that family was soo unhappy not knowing about it (even tho. it was stated in the brochure) and complained to the ENTIRE tour, tourguides, called back and everyone she saw! I believe Jack Neo's movie has illustrated this trait of typical singaporeans clearly and need no extra elaboration. As for me, i do whine a little here and there(okay maybe quite alot) but i don't complain unless i need to! I find it unneccessary, troublesome and pointless! i still don't really get why singaporeans go through so much to complain about something small, little and .... everything!!! Thirdly, it's our 'famous' language Singlish! Which i am very embarrassed of, for my country. sigh Basically it's the mix of everything! Chinese, English, Hokkien, Malay, Cantonese... Indian! I know we are Cosmopolitan, we have almost everyone in the world in the small dot of the map. We are multi racial, we have chinese, malays, indians and eurasians!
But does that mean we can transform the beatiful languages into OUR own language? Go ask someone overseas if they understand the 'meaning' of : vomit blood, shake leg, itchy backside! actually, i didn't know the meaning of shake leg and itchy back side until just now when i watching the vid! (LOL) But when i watch Jack Neo movies and hear the Singaporean actors speak in the very Singapore way, i feel DISGUSTED. yes. so disgusted that i can Spit. WHY? WHY? WHY? We are bilingual, trilingual and all lingual! But must we change the language in a way we HAVE to add in our accents? For those with the very-singapore accent, Im very sorry to say but can you PLEASE throw it away? It is not only a disgrace to yourself but a disgrace to Singapore. We can't read properly with our dear ol' accents! EW! However, i am lucky that i am not so affected by the languages of my fellow locals. i don't use that MUCH of singlish like 'sia', 'leh' and so on. Though i do use some suck as 'lah', i cannot deny and also try to not use. Ask around i am sure that if you ask some of your friends to speak in PROPER english, they will be unable to. Especially fellow bengliangaos! Fourthly, it's the HDB flats. They are EVERYWHERE that it has become a trait in singapore!
It became a singaporean trait! How? to ask a hand in marriage when a guy asks : do you wanna buy a HDB with me? with that singapore accent? AH HELL NO! if it was me! i may love a guy how ever much but if IF IF he ever proposes to me this way.. HAHA GOODBYE BOYFRIEND! but.. disappointedly, IT IS actually very common in singapore to propose this way! Or why did the advertisement some time ago show a guy proposing to a girl when he asked her if they want to register for a flat together. EWW it was in a hawker center, no flowers, no ring and their dinner was a bowl of noodles... SHARED! so, it was as good as without dinner! well so it's like this. I can only say, i am not a typical singaporean. I like the fact that it's safe (in a way of its geographical location and politically) and small(travelling is made easy!)but not so much of the people.. and some others! So, are you a singaporean? 0 comments |
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