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9.22.2005
BEFORE I START, FRIENDSTER IS SO KEWL, LOOK AT WHAT I DID
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since when have i completed a sentence without mixing english, chinese, and a lil dialect? very seldom i would say. the only times ive done so were during oral, english lessons in class, presentation. and yup, during chinesse lessons (secondary sch time) i still mix my talks. and even now when i talk to lecturers, i cant possibly use one language alone to complete the conversation.
"eh shirlyn, this one de colour like guai guai de"
"jeffrey!! todae de presentation got grade anot?"
how insane? very.
the attempt to try juggling two languages perfect failed, and i even tried taking up a third language. oh my i think im gonna die anytime soon.
BUT, (never start a sentence with buts and ands kids) i thought its like a style of singaporeans, to mix and mingle. i almost never fail to mix chinese and english, they sound cool and cute when placed together.
may it be a blessing, obviously its lik the half pail one pail logic if youve ever heard of
half pail of english water, and half pail of chinese water = one big pail of singlish
not that i dont wanna mix in malay or tamil, i would. provided i know a tiny bit of it. i once watched on tv, they were discussing how malays and indians in singapore wear traditional clothes during festivals and most chinese dont?
fact is, most chinese in singapore dont see themselves as chinese, rather, singaporean. thats the unique identity. so comes the origin of singlish today
older generations, my mum, even added some pinch of malay in her sentences. things like yaya. yup. i saw that on tv earlier. which means proud or sth.
so is singlish a universally official language? i doubt. for one, we dont have a dictionary which contains singlish. heck with the what, why, where, who, when, how thing..we are picking up ar, lor, la, hor, leh, chey.
typical typical
and i feel uneasy if i dont include abit of these add-ons in my speech..
"where you all going AR?"
"really MEH?"
"CHEY, like that only"
and seriously i need to think throught my sentence to make sure its not to singlishfied, it didnt work.
i went to a ktv place yesterday. and theres this guy, who sat infront of the door and collects tickets. so lynette was telling him that we needa go out to wait for someone to hand him the tix, and that we will be back later in pure, perfect chinese
and the guy went "huh?"
so i figured, oh, maybe hes those jiak kang tang one [english speaking ones]. and so i just translated simply
then he answered..IN CHINESE..
i rolled my eyes la, like what the hell. if you understood in the first place then dont bother huhing. for one, it makes u look stupid. another, it makes us irritated.
and that totally reminds me, we were forbiddened to say huh when i was as young as P2. obviously i didnt obliged to that, i still huhed my way through pri sch and sec sch and everything is still fine
do you realise "huh" is actually an english word?
go to dictionary.com and search, thats what i did..and...
2 entries found for huh.
huh ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h)interj.
Used to express interrogation, surprise, contempt, or indifference.[Download Now or Buy the Book]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
huh
HUH: in Acronym Finder
pretty impressive HUH?..i wished i went back to P2 and slap the person's face with this fact..if i didnt remember wrongly..MRS PETERSON
oh my, that scary woman
sometimes i wonder if my mom is talking to more than one person, like our phone conference thingy. cos she can speak english, chinese, cantonese, hokkien MIXED
rojak nia
aye, and trying to type this entry in better english is totally killing me too. cos jingyun told me her friend, who happened to be a malay, reads my blog regularly. thanks whoever you are.
PS. loads of mistakes in entry, spot and win a slap from me
 Penned at 10:02 PM
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