Came across this while I was surfing the net. This list is toned down, because some of the points were not relevant to people like us and thus taken off from this list
25 Signs you are a TRUE Singaporean!
- Thanks to SMS, you have an extra large thumb.
- Tks 2 SMS, u oso dun no how 2 spel n e mor.
- At lunch, you start discussing what to eat for dinner.
- When speaking to foreigners, you somehow feel a need to adopt an accent. (If you’re a DJ, this happens even when you’re not speaking to foreigners.)
- You don’t know ¾ of the people attending your wedding.
- You separate food into 2 basic groups: ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’.
- You’re never completely sure how many times you’ve sung the second verse of the National Anthem.
- You think that what makes you ‘married’ is not the legal registration but whether you’ve thrown a 12 course dinner.
- You suddenly realize you’re very interested in biotech - just like you suddenly realized three years ago that you were very interested in e-commerce, and before that, engineering, and before that, medicine and law.
- You think being an entrepreneur is setting up a bubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop right next to an existing bubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop.
- You think people are inconsiderate when they don’t leave their table immediately after eating at the food court but think you have every right to take 25 bites to finish the last red bean in your ice kachang.
- You think the most important sporting event in Singapore this year was David Beckham switching from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
- It actually makes a difference to you being called an ‘NSMan’ rather than a ‘Reservist’.
- You’ve eaten more times at the Esplanade than you’ve actually seen shows there.
- You need campaigns to tell you how to be courteous, to flush toilets, have sex, etc
- You’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.
- Pork floss and mayonnaise on bread is a completely natural combination to you.
- If one is pregnant, they have the strange ability to make people on the MRT fall asleep instantly.
- You’ve started referring to foreign employees as ‘talent’ instead of ‘expatriates’.
- At the dinner table, you’re always discussing which other food places serve better versions of what you’re eating..
- You pronounce the letter ‘R’ as ‘ah-rer’ and the letter ‘H’ as ‘haytch’.
- You’re always on a quest for the definitive version of your favourite local dish.
- When you explain things to people, you keep (a) using alphabets, and (b) speaking in point form.
- You secretly find that the best part of the Speak Good English Movement is hearing the Singlish bits in their ads.
- You think we’re living in a modern, sophisticated country even when our leaders still insist on wearing their school uniforms.
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