Speak my language.

It's funny how it took me so long to start realising the beauty of knowing various languages / dialects.

It's been roughly a month since work started at fish and co and i've made friends with people from all over the world. There were Phillipinos, malaysians, indonesians, fellow singaporeans and of course, the predominated mynamarians ( from myanmar. ) Everyone have the habit of communicating in their own native language despite being constantly taunted by the words, " channel 5! channel 5! "

The managers will start talking in their mother tongue, the myanmarians will start talking in theirs. Even the malaysians will be consistent! Only we singaporeans will start yakking in a mixture of english , chinese, malay,cantonese, hokkien ( mixed with teochew. ) and the famous annotations of la, lor, meh, mah, hor etc etc etc. And it comes so naturally!

Many people have criticised these " singaporean slang ".. giving it a sloppy, distasteful image. Maybe these people are right. Sometimes, i guess we are ashamed of it ourselves..that's why many of us try to imitate angmohs in their slang and accent.

But what good is Singapore without its la-s, lor-s, meh-s and famous language rojak?

My phillipino colleagues love their language. My myanmarian colleagues love their language. My malaysian colleagues love their language. Only people like me thinks that chinese is disgusting. And i still do! i'ld die trying to have a dialogue in perfect chinese but ahh..when it comes to using specific chinese words to link up my sentences, i'm a pro. Except that i always use the wrongs words.

yes, i'm a chinese sucker. And i bet there are tons of people out there who are like me. That's why we use words from other languages to fill up the missing spaces in our sentences. It's called widening our horizons. hahaha.

I say singapore slang is good. Coz if we wanna bad-mouth others, these victims must not only know english, but must be able to comprehend chinese, malay, cantonese , teochew ( /hokkien) and sometimes, maybe a little japanese as well.

MUAHAHA!

That's why i say..

embrace our singapore slang.
It's what makes us.. UNIQUELY SINGAPORE.