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June 26, 2008

Life in Singapore

Gotten this of Davyd Chua. Very funny. Very real.

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1. Nite - Sleep with air-con; Day - Bathe with heater on

2. Day - Cannot Wake up; Nite - Cannot Sleep

3. Cigarettes - Convenient to buy; not convenient to smoke

4. Chewing Gum - Can Chew, Cannot buy?? (Restrictions on buying)

5. Smell Of rubbish besides letterboxes; Rubbish inside Letterbox

6. Private Cars - Cheaper & Cheaper to Buy, harder & harder to Maintain

7. Education - Teachers teaching Less but expects students to learn More

8. High-tech barbaric singaporeans - know how to use state-of-the
art equipment, but dunno how to use a simple dustbin or a toilet

9. There are quite a number of rich/poor in spore - They have Car, Credit
Card, CPF .... but no Cash and lots of loans

10. Translation is needed between Singaporean Chinese and
Mainland China Chinese

11. S'porean never like to vote, but like to complain

12. Half Sporeans rushed to buy Hello kitty, but the other half busy
killing stray cats

13. Public Bus - Half the Crowd squeeze in front section of the Bus,
Second section is for Carrying Ghost

June 25, 2008

Basic Thai

Thai language itself is tough to master.. either that or i am not cut out to be a linguist, but then again.. i need to have some fodder to blog.. so here goes..

EZ Thai: Some Basic Words and Phrases

Hello	sà-wàt-dii khráp / sà-wàt-dii khâ
How are you?	sà-baai-dii mái
I’m fine	sà-baai-dii
Thanks	khàwp-khun khráp / khàwp-khun khâ
Sorry	khăw-thôt khráp / khăw-thôt khâ
yes	châi
no	mâi châi
Good morning.	à-run-sà-wàt
Good afternoon.	sà-wàt-dii tawn-thîang
Good evening.	sà-wàt-dii tawn-yen
Good night.	râa-trii sà-wàt
Can you help me?	chûay nàwy dâai mái
No Problem.	mâi-pen-rai
My name is Lee.	chăn chûe lee
What is your name?	khun chûe à-rai
Nice to meet you.	yin-dii thîi dâai rú-jàk
Nice to talk to you.	yin-dii thîi dâai khui dûay
Good!	dii
That’s great!	yîam mâak

June 9, 2008

流泪叉烧

I've just had the 流泪叉烧 from Meng Kee.. located at Tengkat Tong Shin... jin nice lorrrrr

Now heading back to Singapore...

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