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6/09/2007
Singaporean catch phrases
The Singaporean Dictionary of famous phrases, in jest. (To be added on as more gems are discovered)
Affordability: It means affordable according to the income of the person saying it.
Equality: Some have more rights than others. Or as in Animal Farm.
Foreign talents aka Fallen Trash: Not very bright foreigners but can replace Singaporeans on cheaper pay.
Foreign workers: To compete with local workers to keep wages low.
GST: Tax to benefit the poor and lower income citizens
High Pay: Free of corruption
Honest Mistake: Free from accountability. A learning process for taking risks.
IR: Another term for Casinos
Let's move on: Enough. We have decided and no one should say anything more about it. Case closed.
Local talents: Only in demand overseas
Majority: If 1 million did not vote and 3 voted, 2 is a majority.
Means Testing: An opportunity to strip a citizen down to bare all his poverty.
Mee Siam Mai Hum: Uniquely Singapore
National security: My security, or the security of whoever saying it.
Pah Si Buay Chow: Stay on as long as the pay is good.
Peanuts: As it is, good for monkeys only.
Political talents: The best of all the country's talents.
Quitters: Applicable to Singaporeans who can't make it here.
Redbeanforum = online rantings in futility? ;P
Retirement age: Not applicable in politics
Straight As: Above average students. Anything below is average or below average.
Straits Times: Tongue in cheek views of professional journalists for nation building.
Subsidies: Govt subsidises, the people pay.
Super talents: Measures by income
Transparent: For me to know, for you to find out.
Unemployed - Refers to lazy and choosy individuals.
World class. This has many definitions depending on the context.
World class govt: Highest paid govt. This is unchallenged. Will appear in Guinness Book of Records soon.
World class public transport: Sardine packed public transport.
World class universities: Based on the criteria of assessments and number of foreign students and lecturers tweaked to fit to the expected model.
Housing Subsidies - A figure plucked from air.
ReplyDeleteUnemployed - Refers to lazy and choosy individuals.
Redbean, what about the catchy joh titles arising from the so-called rebranding of johs eg bus captains for bus drivers etc.
ReplyDeleteRedbeanforum = online rantings in futility? ;P
ReplyDeleteDon't be a spoilsport, this is THE national pastime.
ReplyDeleteNational security: My security, or the security of whoever saying it.
ReplyDeleteIntelligent: their judgement
ReplyDeleteRubbish: your thoughts
ok, i will amend the list with some of your suggestions.
ReplyDeletebut cannot insult bus captains. they are called captains, like airline captains. as long as they feel good and don't demand a pilot captain's pay will do.
didn't you know that there are thousands of presidents, senior vice presidents and vice presidents in singapore? maybe we have too many vices.
You realise that no other country in the world use the term foreign talent except sillypore. Most use the term skilled worker or skilled migrant.
ReplyDeleteFallen Trash - Not very bright foreigners deployed to replace Singaporeans for the sole purpose of depressing wages.
sillypore-
sinkapore-
stinkapore- all refer to singapore
little red dot-
bee sai-
Honest Mistake: Free from accountability
ReplyDeleteTransparent: For me to know, for you to find out.
Equality: Some have more rights than others.
S'pore law: My law (a la despot).
Straits Times: Propaganda
White horse: Ensure someone DOESN'T receives privileges.
ReplyDeleteProgress Package: LEEgalised corruption or open bribery.
ORGANISED CRIME
ReplyDeleteMinister: Thug
Prime Minister: Head Thug
Senior Minister: Thug in charge of money
Mentor Minister: Grand Daddy, Supreme Ruler of Thugdom.
Minister's Salaries: Protection Money
GLC: Racket, Gang business.
Stat Board: Gang Business, racketeer training for newbie thugs.
HDB: Racket. Tenements where the gang is the supreme slum-lord.
CPF: Racket. Pyramid scheme.
LTA: Land Theft Authority. Confiscates land for gang use.
ERP: Electronic Robbery Payment - highway robbery, literally speaking. Drive your car from Woodlands to town at about 5 or 6pm, and see how much you pay.
High Court: Gang justice.
PAP: the biggest and most powerful gang.
SDP, WP etc.: Small time gang.
Police: Hit men squad — used by the Big Gang to wallop the small gangs leadership.
NS: Racket. Indentured servitude. Slaves essentially to be used as cannon fodder should there be foreign incursion into Gang Land. The idea is to delay victory and to pose "resistance" to the enemy, which buys time for the high ranking gang elders to make their escape (with all the gang loot of course)
Tax: property confiscated by extortion, in extreme cases - armed robbery i.e. "pay up or else". This is the main source of revenue for the BIG gang. Small gangs don't get a penny. They'd be lucky to get so much as a kind word.
---feel free to add----
Who says "crime doesn't pay"?
for matilah's and some other stronger stuff, i will publish one separate Cat 3 version and sell as pirated VCD : )
ReplyDeleteYou never know, your VCD might sell like hotcakes.
ReplyDeleteWelfare: Only for snr civil servants and cabinet positions.
ReplyDeletePeaceful Protestation or demonstration => RIOT
ReplyDeletei will modify the definition for riots.
ReplyDeletepublic demonstration - 4 or 5 people are dangerous.