- we cry Merdeka say don’t want ang-moh master, now we say ang-moh will make our economy better;
- we go to school wear Panda shoe, now some students go to school got Prada too;
- parent no money can be illegal hawker, now parent no money cannot even be hooker
(The jobs already taken by Thai, Viet, Cambodia and China people); - the young girl in Kong Siak Street’s is ‘ang pai’ hooker, now all these aunty can only serve lao uncle;
- no one say our ancestors are their home country’s quitter now you ‘bway song’ gahmen you kenna label a ‘traitor’ or ‘quitter’;
- last time sweep the floor all the ‘never study’ people now sweep the floor all Benga-lah ‘talented’ foreigner;
- we catch longkang fish and spider, now kids play Xbox360, PS3 and computer;
- we ‘pah gor-lee’ [play marbles], now kids go arcade & lan game centre;
- people got BATA BM2000 some of the classmates become sore-eye monster, now kids still wear the Nike from one season ago they better don’t go to school this semester;
- we go test cannot even use simple calculator, now kids no PDA ‘chow chow’ also use scientific calculator;
- a guy or girl sio hun kee’ [smoking] people say we ‘pai-kia’ [gangster] or hooker, now don’t play play can be a doctor;
- lifts stop only on certain level only will stop on every level;
- people ‘kwai kwai’ [goody goody] no throw litter, now got some people do CWO and pay $1000 fine also ‘sup sup water’ [small matter];
- we army time eat cook house the food look like Frankenstein monster, now NS boy eat SFI and served by aunty like an ocifer;
- ocifer ask us do star jump we ask ‘How high?’ now soldier tell ocifer ‘You sleep earlier stack your pillow high high.’;
- ocifer scold us ‘knnbccb’ we ‘Yes, sir’ ‘Yes, sir’ 3 bag full, now ocifer would be a fool to even talk about soldier’s mother;
- encik / incher like big shot in army now all nice nice like your uncle because scared contract over outside ‘got no lobang’ for good job end up become taxi driver;
- encik / incher say ‘F*ck your mother’ we better not utter, now soldier say ‘wait for the MP or my father’s lawyer letter’;
- PTI [Physical Training Instructor] like God got alot of power now all become FS [Fitness Specialist] aka ‘F*ck Spider’;
- PTI say ‘Run there touch the tree come back’ we cheong like mad, now FS say the same soldier will say ‘You are a seow on muthaf*cker’;
- last time kenna tekan is wash toilet with toothbrush or guard duty turn out every hour, now kenna tekan in army is clerk kenna arrow to type a letter;
- MO give you Attend-C maybe also no use now MO no give MC for little little ailment can also kenne charge for abuse;
- we book out long weekend long long one time chiong ‘Fire Disco’ now every weekend you see army boys at Dbl O;
- working people say life difficult we accept it because people eat salt more than we eat rice now kids say ‘Get out of my elite uncaring face!’;
- we got portable radio happy like f*ck now some kids no iPod newest model the parents will kenna f*ck;
- we get beating from teacher in school we go home kenna round two, now teacher scold student must watch out and better not leave school too;
- only see father hit son until son concuss now baby son take Ultraman toy hit the father the man also dare not shout;
- only student got crush on teacher now got teacher send student ‘我爱你’ SMS;
- we hardly hear of people ‘shot-gun & misfire’, now Nanyang Poly girl porn video circulate on Internet like wild fire;
- Vietnamese and China people all simple simple now got old man CPF all con by some of their people;
- we wanna eat 70cents ice cream also think dunno how many days now kids eat at MacDonalds’ everyday; and
- we ask our daddy ‘Do you love me?’ our daddy think we crazy, now daddy no say ‘I love you’ kids become crazy.
I know this does not rhyme, but next time gover-min ask you make more baby you tell them the above and ask them in Cantonese:
‘问你点敢乱生仔?’





