Union Day At NTU

Woke up at 9 dis morning.. union day so there are no classes in the morning - although i dun haf any every thurs morning. Watching x-men and downloading stuff.. Youtube is down for servicing and there are nothing else to do. Was surfing through the net when i found this interestrting article - courtesy of http://Singapore-Learns-To-Smile.blogspot.com/

60 signs that you're Singaporean
1. Thanks to SMS, you have an extra large thumb.

2. Tks 2 SMS, u oso dun no how 2 spel n e mor.

3. You pat MRT and bus seats to cool them beforeyou sit down.

4. At lunch, you start discussing what to eat fordinner.

5. Your wedding photos include shots of youdressed up like Louis XIV, Michael Jackson, orLeonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.

6. When speaking to foreigners, you somehow feela need to adopt an accent. (If you’re a DJ, thishappens even when you’re not speaking toforeigners.)

7. You won’t raise your voice to protest policies,but you’ll raise your fists to whack someone overHello Kitty.

8. You’re forever talking about businesses youwant to set up but will probably never get around tostarting.

9. You don’t know ¾ of the people attending yourwedding.

10. You separate food into 2 basic groups: ‘heaty’and ‘cooling’.

11. You’re never completely sure how many timesyou’ve sung the second verse of the NationalAnthem.

12. You think that what makes you ‘married’ is notthe legal registration but whether you’ve thrown a12 course dinner.

13. You marry for the real estate breaks.

14. You have kids for the tax advantages.

15. You move to where you want your child to goto school.

16. You feel you can’t walk around naked in yourown flat.

17. You force your children to take Speech &Drama classes, but pray they won’t wind up inArts later on.

18. You suddenly realize you’re very interested inbiotech - just like you suddenly realized threeyears ago that you were very interested in e-commerce, and before that, engineering, andbefore that, medicine and law.

19. You think being an entrepreneur is setting up abubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridgeshop right next to an existing bubbletea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop.

20. You think people are inconsiderate when theydon’t leave their table immediately after eating atthe food court but think you have every right totake 25 bites to finish the last red bean in your icekachang.

21. You find it impossible to make suggestionswithout drawing a fishbone chart first.

22. If you’re a guy, whenever you get together withyour guy friends, you invariably trade army stories.

23. If you’re a girl, whenever you get together withyour girl friends, you invariably trade stories abouthow your stupid guy friends are forever tradingarmy stories.

24. You think the most important sporting event inSingapore this year was David Beckham switchingfrom Manchester United to Real Madrid.

25. You somehow feel that food tastes better wheneaten by a longkang.

26. It actually makes a difference to you beingcalled an ‘NSMan’ rather than a ‘Reservist’.

27. You’ve eaten more times at the Esplanadethan you’ve actually seen shows there.

28. You need campaigns to tell you how to becourteous, to flush toilets, have sex, etc.

29. When you visit the Zoo, you wonder what theanimals taste like.

30. You feel the urge to add the suffix ‘-polis’ toeverything, viz. Biopolis, Airtropolis, Fusionopolis,Entrepolis, etc.

31. You always feel oddly hungry at 11 pm, andare willing to drive to far away places for supper.

32. You meet in hotels a lot.

33. Your children have a rudimentary knowledge ofTagalog or Bahasa Indonesia.

34. You work at McDonald’s when you’re old ratherthan young.

35. You’ll gladly spend $50,000 on a car, but willgo to great lengths to save a few bucks on ERPcharges or even a few cents on a parking coupon.

36. Pork floss and mayonnaise on bread is acompletely natural combination to you.

37. If you’re pregnant, you have the strange abilityto make people on the MRT fall asleep instantly.

38. You ask for the bill by miming a signingmovement.

39. You’ve started referring to foreign employeesas ‘talent’ instead of ‘expatriates’.

40. At the dinner table, you’re always discussingwhich other food places serve better versions ofwhat you’re eating.

41. You copy down licence plate numbers of carsinvolved in accidents.

42. You think your boyfriend doesn’t really love youunless he gives you part of his liver.

43. During sales, you book hotel rooms near mallsto enable you to shop more efficiently.

44. You pronounce the letter ‘R’ as ‘ah-rer’ and theletter ‘H’ as ‘haytch’.

45. No matter how old you are, you keepassociating people with their secondary schools.(alternative: No matter how old you are, yousecretly need to know what other people got fortheir PSLE, O levels and A levels.)

46. You’re always on a quest for the definitiveversion of your favourite local dish.

47. When you explain things to people, you keep(a) using alphabets, and (b) speaking in point form.

48. You believe that you can generate ‘creativity’through rules and committees.

49. You ‘chope’ a seat by placing a packet oftissues on the chair.

50. You’re very forthright with your criticisms of theGahmen, unless there’s a chance they mightactually hear you.

51. You diligently track the whereabouts of yourfavourite hawkers, i.e..you know that the famousTiong Bahru Bao is now in Jurong, the famousOutram Char Kuay Teow is now in Hong LimCentre and the famous Lau Hock Kien Hokkienmee from the old Lau Pa Sat is now at BeachRoad.

52. Your mother probably can’t speak your ‘mothertongue’.

53. You’d rather drink your own pee than paysomeone more for water.

54. You secretly find that the best part of theSpeak Good English Movement is hearing theSinglish bits in their ads.

55. You have an automatic sensor in your headwhich categorizes people you meet into stayer/quitter, cosmopolitan/heartlander, normal/ express/gifted, etc.

56. You think we’re living in a modern,sophisticated country even when our leaders stillinsist on wearing their school uniforms.

57. You wish your constituency is in a walkover,because otherwise it’s damn ‘leceh’.

58. During elections, you decide that there is nocredible opposition even though you don’t know thename of the opposition candidate in yourconstituency.

59. You think having a constitution is like thecondition you get when you don’t eat enough fibre.

60. You can never quite remember what “the corevalues” of Singaporeans are.

It was such a long article that it kinda sucks - Thumbs up for the person who wrote it. Damn the stupid fire alarm that keeps ringing in my hall. Sucks.. Signing off.. Zzzzz Got lecture at 1330hrs. AE.. *SIGH..