Aiyo, you stop fartinglah..Do the Kallang Waivelah..

Singlish. What an awesome dialect. For those of you who don’t know, it's an interlanguage native to Malaysia and Singapore. A language that has a mix of English, Malay, Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Tamil, Begali and even Punjabi at times. All the locals here speak it and damn is it cool. Alina and I are taking a Poster Modern Theatre class and most all the plays are native Singaporean. This past Tuesday was our first class and we got to experience the language to the fullest while listening to some of our class mates recite some lines from an awesome Singaporean script. It was incredibly cool and totally fun to hear the Singlish accents. Prior to the oral part of class, our theatre group went out of class (still on campus), to read over a script. I took a break from reading, just to take in my surroundings. I was sitting in a circle with people of a totally different culture, reading through a wonderful play. I had just finished eating a wonderful South East Asian meal. On my right there was a beautiful art museum, white in colour, majestic, with incredible architecture. A beautiful warm breeze was what I felt and beautiful green trees and flowers I was surrounded with. “I am really here” I thought. “I’m so lucky.”