Today we went cycling on Pulau Ubin. It is a small Island a few kilometres away from Changi village and it is believed to give you a taste of how life was in Singapore some long time back before it grew as this big city. Along the way you might come across a few places to have a drink. One café was advertising its drinks as per the picture above. This is the ‘national’ language called Singlish. It can be very funny but the Government is trying to fight hard to get its citizens to speak a proper English instead of this interlanguage originating from a mix of mostly English and Malay, Hokkien, Tamil, Teochew and more and more Mandarin. The equivalent also exists North of the border under the name of Manglish in neighbouring Malysia.
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