If you care to believe it, this blog tries to make a difference in the world by dedicating itself to the Democracy, Discussion, Freedom, and Furtherment of Comedy.

The author (mainly? sometimes??) talks about Singapore, but is into all things comedy and comical. And once even seriously entertained the notion of going into stand-up comedy full-time.

Hey, folks!!! I was just thinking about something else today when my mind just started getting into coming up with some "Singaporean-ized" synonyms (now how about that? something truly uniquely Singapore^#). Then i thought of perhaps coming up with a "Singaporean Synonyms Dictionary," (the "SSD") much like in the style of TalkingCock's "Coxford Singlish Dictionary" - but then again, i realized that it might take a lot of entries before i could call it a "Dictionary" (and a "Dictionary" of "Synonyms" is just an "oxymoron," so...), so... what i will do is just present a few "sample entries" here lah (that's all i presently have, anyway), and then see what happens to the process...


"Worker" = Workhorse (other synonyms include "valuable resource", "only resource", - "goose that lays the golden egg that still must get slaughtered and mistreated", ...)

"Workers' Union" [reworded definition] = "national trade union"... No - actually, just Congress.

"Workers' Union" [*old definition]= Workers' what??? Congress is in charge here, man. I mean, National Trade Union... Congress...

(*this i learned from Mr. Martin Lee of Hong Kong)
'PAP' [People's Action Party] = 'PAPA' - "People's Action Party Always"

'ISD' [Internal Security Department] = "Imprison Singaporeans Department" (hey! it is well, after all, "Internal Security," right???)


^# yes i know - that is bad english ("uniquely Singapore"), but... Somehow i get the idea (always???) that life in Singapore is always about well, "the Singapore," but never about "the Singaporeans". How true is that??? I dont know... Witness - "Singapore Idol" (and not "Singaporean Idol"). vs, say "American Idol." Or even our close neighbour "Malaysian Idol." Thaaank you. I would just like to say for the record that it feeels so good to be a Singaporean. The next time somebody asks me about my nationality..., i'll just say that i am "a Singapore" - "uniquely Singapore."