Back From Singapore (2008-11-26)
We are back lah!
I'm still in my Singapore trip mood, hence the Singapore
accent. I love to hear Singaporeans talk, they add a lot of "ah"
and "lah" and "mo" to the end of a sentence or question which always
make me giggle. Local Chinese also have a funny way pronouncing
many English names which can be hilarious. I'll never forget the
way a Chinese man I overheard saying the name Harvey Norman in Suntec
City Mall. He said it "夏-Fee-Nor-蚊", hehehehehehe. ^_^
I think the person who made English the official language in
Singapore is a brilliant politician. This way, the four major
ethnic people who live in Singapore have to learn and use English as
the administrative language and no one will get jealous of
the government favoring a particular ethnic group. Basically all
Singaporeans communicate in a second language (English) amongst
themselves and it works, although it is very strange to see two local
Chinese speak to each other in heavily accented English. I had no
trouble communicating with
Singaporean Chinese in Cantonese or
Mandarin while we were there which makes the trip extra enjoyable.
Okay, kinda digressed a bit there. Anyway our trip was
wonderful except that KL fell ill the day before we left and had to see
the doctor. It's a slight case of flu and it didn't dampen the
trip too badly. Besides, the insurance company paid for the
consultation and medication fully which made this trip's travel
insurance totally worth it, hahaha!
The food we ate in Singapore was generally yummy (pronounce as
"蔭-me") and we ate so much Chinese food that we had Chinese food coming
out of our ears by the day we left Singapore! Thinking back on
all the meals we had, we were shocked to find out we ate chicken rice
four out of seven dinners! It certainly wasn't planned but
somehow our feet just gravtitated towards chicken rice restaurants or
stalls...
As small as Singapore is, we ran out of time to see places and of
course to eat! If you live in a city with good Chinese food
(lucky you), you may not find this city state too special, but for us
in Tokyo, Singapore is like a mini Hong Kong full of excellent Chinese
bbq and Chinese grocery stores, and I LOVE it!
Journal begins tomorrow. You wanna read it mo?
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