Someone asked me to do this so....
For all those blur blur ones out there, Singaporeans included, here is a list consisting of my Singlish knowledge.
FYI Singlish is a mixture of English, Malay and dialects.
1. BO JIO: Why didn't you ask me along too? Used when you know your friends are outside but they didn't include you.
2. WAH LAO EH: Used an expression to express frustration/disappointed/anger/just about anything you're not happy with.
3. LAH LEH LOR: Used as an expression also. E.g I don't want lah, I saw it leh, anything loh.
4. BASKET: Singlish form of BASTARD
5. HOSEHBO: Means "How are you?", used mainly by Ah Bengs, and by students trying to act cool.
6. SIMI: Not see me, but simi, meaning "what?"
7. HUMJI: Means no balls/no guts.
8. GUAI LAN: Used to refer to a person who is an asshole/douche.
9. LANGA: Getting hit by something.
10. KENA/KANA: Means either "like/got" e.g Kena sai lah (like shit), he kena detention(he got detention)
11. SIAO: Crazy E.g You siao ah?
12. BODOH: Means an idiot in Malay.
13. CEPAT: Means hurry up in Malay
14. HANTAM: Means to beat/hit, also used when someone is going to get into trouble. E.g Wah later he confirm kena hantam by cher one!
15. CHER: Short form for teacher, created by Singapore students.
16. CHIOBU: Means pretty girl. E.g Wah chiobu sia!
17. CHAO DA: Burnt, overcooked food. E.g OI you cook so long already not scared chao da ah?
18. SIBEI: Literally means "Die father", but used as an expression for "extremely". E.g This food sibei tasty man!
19. CHAO KENG: Means to pretend to be sick/injured in order to be excused for something. E.g Wah lao he pretend he sick sia, chao keng only!
20. PENG SAN: Meaning to faint. E.g Eh drink more water if not later you halfway peng san!
21. STEADY: Means being smooth in doing something. e.g Wah lao see he run so fast, steady lah!
22. MATI: Means die in Malay, used when getting into trouble. E.g Eh shit teacher saw us already we mati!
23. DIAM: Asking someone to shut up, in a rude way.
24. SIAM: Asking someone to move out of the way, in a rude way.
25. Ka Ni Na: A vulgarity, literally means "fuck your mom". But used with anything, Singaporeans as usual.
26. Chao Chee Bye/Chao Chee Bong: Literally means "smelly vagina" but as usual, used as a vulgarity that goes with nearly anything.
27. EH/OI: Calling someone, like "hey!"
Ok that's all I can think off. Now my brain already want to mati already.
@livinginsg
Saturday 31 August 2013
Monday 26 August 2013
RT for a....
RT for a tbh
RT for a rating
RT for a impression
RT and I'll blah blah blah
RT and I'll touch your face with a jackhammer traveling at a speed of 100km/h.
Enough please there's more to twitter than RTs, what about favoriting and following and quoting and unfollowing you cos this shit is too mainstream?
Guys headache ah really. I remember we migrated from facebook to twitter cos we hated all the like for this and that. Now you want to bring these foreign things here? Sorry ah I don't want, go back to where you came from, facebook.
There's a good reason to be pissed off. I don't think most people actually give an honest opinion of people, most of the tweets I see are extremely ego and morale boosting. If you wanted to make someone's day better just tweet them, anytime and anywhere. You don't need a TBH or RT for a something to do a good deed like that.
Are people just following the bandwagon cos it's the mainstream thing? Yes.
Is it a good thing? Yes, somehow we're spreading the love around.
Is it genuine? Not really no, most people have really bad things to say about people, they just choose to say something fake.
Does it make the other part feel good? Yes definitely, who doesn't love compliments?
Now, if only you could do the same thing for them everyday. Just send them a text or even DM them and say the same thing everyday to make them feel better. You don't a twitter trend to do that please, if you really care for people and want them to feel less emo, do it.
If I received a tweet or DM from even a few friends wishing me well I would be happy for that day. Perfect good morning tweets to wake up to also.
So my advice to people. Sure go on ahead and do such a thing, I won't deny it's good to a certain extent. But please, don't do it for the sake of RTs or following what is mainstream, do it because you really care for others and want to brighten up their day.
FYI, criticism can be good too, a high ego can be potentially harmful too.
@livinginsg
RT for a rating
RT for a impression
RT and I'll blah blah blah
RT and I'll touch your face with a jackhammer traveling at a speed of 100km/h.
Enough please there's more to twitter than RTs, what about favoriting and following and quoting and unfollowing you cos this shit is too mainstream?
Guys headache ah really. I remember we migrated from facebook to twitter cos we hated all the like for this and that. Now you want to bring these foreign things here? Sorry ah I don't want, go back to where you came from, facebook.
There's a good reason to be pissed off. I don't think most people actually give an honest opinion of people, most of the tweets I see are extremely ego and morale boosting. If you wanted to make someone's day better just tweet them, anytime and anywhere. You don't need a TBH or RT for a something to do a good deed like that.
Are people just following the bandwagon cos it's the mainstream thing? Yes.
Is it a good thing? Yes, somehow we're spreading the love around.
Is it genuine? Not really no, most people have really bad things to say about people, they just choose to say something fake.
Does it make the other part feel good? Yes definitely, who doesn't love compliments?
Now, if only you could do the same thing for them everyday. Just send them a text or even DM them and say the same thing everyday to make them feel better. You don't a twitter trend to do that please, if you really care for people and want them to feel less emo, do it.
If I received a tweet or DM from even a few friends wishing me well I would be happy for that day. Perfect good morning tweets to wake up to also.
So my advice to people. Sure go on ahead and do such a thing, I won't deny it's good to a certain extent. But please, don't do it for the sake of RTs or following what is mainstream, do it because you really care for others and want to brighten up their day.
FYI, criticism can be good too, a high ego can be potentially harmful too.
@livinginsg
Monday 19 August 2013
Studying in Singapore
Hey guys, I bet you saw my tweets already. I could go on for quite awhile on twitter but that would be spamming your timeline. Instead I decided, at the last minute to do this blog post to basically offer my opinion on this whole matter.
Brace yourselves for a lecture, but trust me it's a good lecture. :)
First off, our current system, how's it like. We go to school in the morning, go through a shitload of lessons, most of which are theoretical concepts drilled into us through hours and hours of repeated examples and questions, most of which we have no idea what we're actually doing but just by FOLLOWING THE FORMULA we were taught, we're able to obtain the answer. We don't know what the reasons behind learning it are, we don't know what the use of it is in the real world and we most certainly have no idea how the shit it actually works.
That is basically what you go through everyday in school and that is basically what your Primary to Secondary school life is all about. Being drilled in the theories and concepts, which includes maths and scientific formulas, different rules of grammar and vocabulary and a whole load of other things that we forget by the time the lesson ends and our minds are dead.
That's not all, I'm sure many of you have tuition. Extra lessons paid by your parents which you are forced to attend against your own will to "improve your understanding of the subject". Truth be told yes tuition is helpful to a certain extent because it's conducted at a smaller scale (Group tuition) or even at a personal level (home tuition). The problem is, it still follows the same concept. Drilling theories and all the awesome stuff that makes shit sense to you because firstly, you just need to memorize it and vomit it out on paper without even knowing how it actually works. Secondly, as usual you forget lots of it after the lesson ends.
When was the last time the teacher actually demonstrated something out live in front of the class. For maths, bringing in those gigantic set squares, protractors and what not into the class. And actually showing you on the board some stuff? Hardly? Yes I agree, most teachers walk into class with a shitload of work sheets that end up you never do by yourself and get help from those that actually understand the lesson.
So my main point here is, I can't change the system and neither can the government that quickly because firstly, schools in Singapore do not have enough resources to buy so much equipment or items to make the lesson "more lively" like actual models of stuff that you learn in science or maths. Nonetheless I find video lessons very helpful, especially if it's interactive. NOTE, there are two kinds of video lessons, the type where the narrator talks on and on in that super boring voice when eventually you fall asleep to, OR the type when the video pauses and you get to actually work with whatever is inside. THAT's the kind of video lesson I like.
More ever, teachers and the society alike are always asking students to "explore" on their own. Well that's fine with me but what the heck is there to explore if I don't even know what to explore? Please teachers, at least give us some websites or books that we can ownself look into if we really don't understand your lesson, in which most cases it's like that, or at least tell us where we can look for more info. All I ever hear at the end of lessons are "Ok class, these are the homework for today, please complete them by when and when".
Homework, yes it's useful in helpful us recap and revise what we learn during the lesson...if we understand it. Whenever teacher says if you have any questions come find me after school...yea well the thing is teachers always have meetings after schools until dunno what time and students have CCA's also. And you wonder why so many people are stressed.
To end this post off, just want to say even after you read this, if you actually did, know that I'm not trying to fight the system, I just want to offer my opinion on it. There are certain reasons why we can't change our education system in such a short time but I just hope in the future, something better will happen.
@livinginsg
Brace yourselves for a lecture, but trust me it's a good lecture. :)
First off, our current system, how's it like. We go to school in the morning, go through a shitload of lessons, most of which are theoretical concepts drilled into us through hours and hours of repeated examples and questions, most of which we have no idea what we're actually doing but just by FOLLOWING THE FORMULA we were taught, we're able to obtain the answer. We don't know what the reasons behind learning it are, we don't know what the use of it is in the real world and we most certainly have no idea how the shit it actually works.
That is basically what you go through everyday in school and that is basically what your Primary to Secondary school life is all about. Being drilled in the theories and concepts, which includes maths and scientific formulas, different rules of grammar and vocabulary and a whole load of other things that we forget by the time the lesson ends and our minds are dead.
That's not all, I'm sure many of you have tuition. Extra lessons paid by your parents which you are forced to attend against your own will to "improve your understanding of the subject". Truth be told yes tuition is helpful to a certain extent because it's conducted at a smaller scale (Group tuition) or even at a personal level (home tuition). The problem is, it still follows the same concept. Drilling theories and all the awesome stuff that makes shit sense to you because firstly, you just need to memorize it and vomit it out on paper without even knowing how it actually works. Secondly, as usual you forget lots of it after the lesson ends.
When was the last time the teacher actually demonstrated something out live in front of the class. For maths, bringing in those gigantic set squares, protractors and what not into the class. And actually showing you on the board some stuff? Hardly? Yes I agree, most teachers walk into class with a shitload of work sheets that end up you never do by yourself and get help from those that actually understand the lesson.
So my main point here is, I can't change the system and neither can the government that quickly because firstly, schools in Singapore do not have enough resources to buy so much equipment or items to make the lesson "more lively" like actual models of stuff that you learn in science or maths. Nonetheless I find video lessons very helpful, especially if it's interactive. NOTE, there are two kinds of video lessons, the type where the narrator talks on and on in that super boring voice when eventually you fall asleep to, OR the type when the video pauses and you get to actually work with whatever is inside. THAT's the kind of video lesson I like.
More ever, teachers and the society alike are always asking students to "explore" on their own. Well that's fine with me but what the heck is there to explore if I don't even know what to explore? Please teachers, at least give us some websites or books that we can ownself look into if we really don't understand your lesson, in which most cases it's like that, or at least tell us where we can look for more info. All I ever hear at the end of lessons are "Ok class, these are the homework for today, please complete them by when and when".
Homework, yes it's useful in helpful us recap and revise what we learn during the lesson...if we understand it. Whenever teacher says if you have any questions come find me after school...yea well the thing is teachers always have meetings after schools until dunno what time and students have CCA's also. And you wonder why so many people are stressed.
To end this post off, just want to say even after you read this, if you actually did, know that I'm not trying to fight the system, I just want to offer my opinion on it. There are certain reasons why we can't change our education system in such a short time but I just hope in the future, something better will happen.
@livinginsg
Thursday 15 August 2013
How it all started...
So as you guys know my twitter account has been around for one year and one month. It has 17k tweets, 15k followers and I have had a load of fun being the admin of it.
It's been a great journey and I want to thank of all my followers for staying with this account for so long. Especially some that always reply my tweets with your own funny ones :).
Now let's trace back all the tweets..
This was my very first tweet, it got only 1 retweet than, on 28 July 2013. I know if I tweet this again I would get a lot more, but that's not the point. The point is I'm amazed at how much I've done with this account. I never expected to get 5k followers let alone the 15k I have now and I'm just so thankful to all my followers.
Yes I may just be a quote account but for me that is an achievement in life itself(so drama sia).
Now some people have asked me on ask.fm why I made this. Simple, I was really bored, and yes that's the truth. I was really bored after my O Levels and sat down at my computer one day looking at tweets from other quote accounts at that time. @Singa_tweets @chaocheebong @schoolprobIems @_sgkid and maybe some others I forgot.
So yes, they "inspired" me to make this account and here I am.
The End.
@livinginsg
It's been a great journey and I want to thank of all my followers for staying with this account for so long. Especially some that always reply my tweets with your own funny ones :).
Now let's trace back all the tweets..
This was my very first tweet, it got only 1 retweet than, on 28 July 2013. I know if I tweet this again I would get a lot more, but that's not the point. The point is I'm amazed at how much I've done with this account. I never expected to get 5k followers let alone the 15k I have now and I'm just so thankful to all my followers.
Yes I may just be a quote account but for me that is an achievement in life itself(so drama sia).
Now some people have asked me on ask.fm why I made this. Simple, I was really bored, and yes that's the truth. I was really bored after my O Levels and sat down at my computer one day looking at tweets from other quote accounts at that time. @Singa_tweets @chaocheebong @schoolprobIems @_sgkid and maybe some others I forgot.
So yes, they "inspired" me to make this account and here I am.
The End.
@livinginsg
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