"u got go there anot?"

had buffet at Coca a couple of nights ago with a bunch colleagues in "celebration" of one of them leaving the company for a job which he thinks is more suitable for him... thus "celebration"... the food wasn't that good thou... not worth the money paid...

after dinner the guys from my team went ahead for durian in Bugis Street... Christian brought along a friend to dinner whom he'd known in his studying days... so he planned on bringing Simone around a bit b4 gg home... while walking over from Concourse, we passed by this rack with those free postcards u usually see outside some cafes... one of the cards is meant to promote "speaking good english" de...

"you got go there or not?"

"did you go there?"

(the former sounds like wad we'll say usually...? haha.. )

"be understood, not only in Singapore, Malaysia and Batam"

"they make it sound so serious...!"

then i explained to Simone abt our multinational / multicultural community and wad the gahmen says abt Singaporean English as well as the recent hoohaa of the IMF thing coming up in Sept....

"But we still understand the language... and this is something UNIQUE in Singapore!"

well she does make sense huh.... that's how the Nonya started in Melaka last time too yah? instead of mixing the taste/food/culture/dressing, we're juz mixing the languages now! and i bet there's mixing of Malay and Chinese languages back then as well....

anyway Simone is in Tioman the next morning and gg to be juz there relaxing along the beaches and reading her book she says.... shiok huh.....