Taipei, The HosteL and Two LoveLy LadiesThese few days in Taipei couLdnt have been any fun-nier without the two good frenz from Singapore - Wingyan and Peiling (speLt smaLL "L" by speciaL request). From day one, we waLked through vaLLeys, cLimbed across mountains and swam through rivers .. in short, we traveLLed for miLes, aLright forget the vaLLeys and mountains or rivers.
Shopping and sightseeing is wat we've been doing. But more interestingLy, is the exposure of us as Singaporeans to the rest of the worLd.
The hosteL we are currentLy staying in, houses internationaLs from Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and so on, thus EngLish was the common Language used. As much as the others thought highLy upon Singaporeans' standard of EngLish, they muz have never been so wrong in their Lives. I taLked to the German in normaL EngLish, yes, he understands sometimes, got bLur most of the time. No it ain him, I know.
The EngLish essent of typicaL Singaporean sux big time. In contrast with writing whereby 90% of us can express so wonderfuLLy weLL, our speech Lacks emotions! Imagine urseLf taLking to a caucasian .. weLL I wun say uer bound to turn him/her off, but unLess uer brought up speaking EngLish, u are so dead .. and the conversation wiLL juz switch off in Less than ten sentences.
Juz a coupLe of hours ago, I got out of this teeny room of mine in the hosteL and bumped into the Hong Kong gaL for the first time in the hosteL Living room. Ok she cant speak much Chinese, but at Least the frequency was better and she couLd understand my gestures Like I couLd to her. But .. aLas, as much as I wanted to taLk more, I was restricted by my priority action .. to borrow Laptop from Wingyan from the gaLs' room. Darn!
And so here I am .. trying to jot down the so-many-interesting-facts-of-a-Singaporean's-Life to u peopLe back home.
ALright with regards to today's happenings, we went to the Taipei Zoo. In the zoo, it was separated into sections of the animaLs' origins. As we went tru the whoLe zoo, there was nothing different about the animaLs other than their shape and size. ALL of them .. are caged .. deprived of freedom and wouLd most probabLy never get to see the sunrise of the AustraLian or sunset of the Amazon. Even if they are, by any miracLe, to be reLeased into the wiLd again, can they reaLLy adapt to survive? Predators Like the Lion, tiger .. wouLd probabLy have no idea how to hunt (again) ..
Then again, Singaporeans are the same. Eat, sLeep, work day in day out for most part of their Lives and probabLy Lose the passion to improve the quaLity of Life, becoming so much Like a waLking mechanism.
And so, that probabLy answers why EngLish is so god damn duLL in speech. Aiyah, watever La. Therez no need to force sLang since we're not angmoh .. Letz juz be proud of our very own - SingLish ..
Dun pLay pLay ehh.
with the chefs ... 
with Gurpreet Singh (of whom the Taiwanese authorities named him 古巴仁* aka Man from Cuba) .. and ImmanueL + ArieL (merging into 1 soon if the boy knows what to do) .. I tink I Looked sexy with the tamborine.
the group photo .. with newcomers, I can finaLLy consider myseLf an oLd bird.
maybe .. soon .. we wiLL see more of this! Boy, work on it .. 
.JPG)
