This is my home

This is my home

Yes I have harbored thoughts of leaving Singapura, but it doesn’t make me any less of a Mat Melayu Singaporean right. It’s just work and finding better opportunities elsewhere, but at heart I’ll always be a Sing-Chai-Po-Rean. It’s not perfect but it’s ‘home’.

With NDP coming up, what makes us Singaporean? Well here’s a bunch of funny yet true facts I found online about all of us. Things that make us Singaporean. …

1. Scurry to car accidents, in the hopes of striking toto and 4D.
2. Stuff their children with Brands Chicken Essence just before exams.
3. Whip out their handphones to snap and send pictures to STOMP when anything serious happens.
4. Eat Nasi Lemak for breakfast, Char Kuai Teow for lunch and Mutton curry for dinner.
5. Have neighbors who are Chinese, Malay, Indian and Others.
6. Speak with leh, lah and lors.
7. Are kaisu, to the extent of queing for free tissue paper.
8. Complain about their government year in year out, but still vote for them anyways. (No choice mah!)
9. We pat bus seats & even MRT seats to cool them before we sit down.
10. At lunch, we start discussing what to eat for dinner.
11. When speaking to foreigners, we somehow feel a need to adopt an accent.
12. We won’t raise your voice to protest policies, but we’ll raise your fists to whack someone over Hello Kitty.
13. We separate food into 2 basic groups: ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’.
14. We think that what makes us ‘married’ is not the legal registration but whether we’ve thrown a 12 course Chinese banquet.
15. We move to where we want our child to go to school.
16. We force our children to take Speech & Drama classes, but pray they won’t wind up in Arts later on.
17. We need campaigns to tell us how to be courteous, to flush toilets, etc
18. We’ll gladly spend $50,000 on a car, but will go to great lengths to save a few bucks on ERP charges or even a few cents on a parking coupon.
19. We ‘chope’ a seat by placing a packet of tissues on the chair.
20. We use too many acronyms yet keep creating new ones.
21. We think that $100,000 is a reasonable price for a Toyota Corolla, and $1,000,000 is a reasonable price for a bungalow, but $5 for a plate of fried noodles is a barbarous outrage.
22. We think that everything should be ‘topped up’.
23. We wear winter clothes indoors and summer clothes outdoors.
24. In a country where people use smart cards for public transit, we have no problem with construction workers riding in the open backs of pickup trucks.
25. We’re not ashamed that the government needs to care if we know how to use a toilet or urinal correctly.
26. We’re sure that the best way to change social behaviour is through consistent and comprehensive government-sponsored campaigns that permeate as many aspects of life as possible. And when they don’t work, we never speak of them again.
27. We think a bus is incomplete without a TV.
28. Every task we take on and every group we form is incomplete without a mission statement and a cheesy slogan.
29. We understand everything on this list.

credit Chin Liong Choon, Asker, Wispen Lee.

You got any more funny facts, send it to me lah!