Uniquely Singapore

Please don't conclude that this blog is devoted to ridiculing Singapore..it's just that this "unique" place makes me go into peals of laughter everyday, about something or the other. Here are some things that made me laugh for the past two days.

****Block supper and exam goodie bags.
Here hostels are called halls. Each hall is divided into a number of blocks. My hall is really blessed. Just go two levels above my room, and you can see my whole university and some of nearby Singapore too. Why they built this block atop a hill is something I can't understand. As I told in one of my previous blogs, many of my friends simply refuse to come up to my room, because of the mountain of stairs they have to climb. Un malaiya yeri un roomukku varathukku naan India poi thirupathi malai-ya yeralaam; punniyamaavadhu kidaikkum. Well, I don't blame them.
Ok, I'm digressing. Block supper.
These hall students' committees organize block suppers every month or so. I've never attended a single one because they don't have any vegetarian (also sensible veggie) food for me to eat. But yesterday was the last block supper for this year. So senti poattu, I attended this one and just stood about and chatted away as others happily ate. Boy, their juice also didn't taste good! Then they gave medals to some people(for what I didn't know..) and then we all went back.
Then one girl from the committee came to my room with two bags (ya, ya, they were goodie bags! :) )
"Hi...your roommate there or wad?"
"No..she's out"
"Ok la, these two exam goodie bags leh...give your roomie also eh? Gulluck (no brownie points for guessing it's goodluck) for exams! Oh i forget...inside there are 'suvvey' forms leh, about hall 9 la...please fill and put them on your door and we'll collect le..."
"ya, sure, goodluck to you too...goodnight!"
I closed the door and checked out the exam goodie bag. Cha! Last sem's exam goodie bag was much better.
This sem it had a huge box of ready to eat noodles (which I got to dump on someone), numerous discount forms for things ranging from hair salons to contact lenses to skating entry fee discounts.
Hmm..quite interesting.
Then,
"Heritage Jia Jia Liangteh Sugar Free Herbal Tea"
You need a very strong mind to drink this tea. It's more like the tea water thingy we get after straining the tea powder + water (ayyo.. I forgot what it's called...dicoction?)
Duh, nothing useful till now (ya, the survey form too...).
Hey, there's something else big and bright.
FHM magazine.
I thought it's a women's magazine.
Well, no...it was a men's magazine.
(No, no don't think otherwise, they gave it to me, I didn't ask for it!! )
Wah...what a book to read before the exams!!!
Think of an exam subject like this:
Paper: FHM and it's important lessons.
Time : 2 hours
Topics:
Singapore's 100 Hottest Girls Next Door
Thai bar dancers
FHM s** class




Questions:
1) Who features in the "Wet and Wild" section of FHM's October 2004 issue? (adapaavi! October 2004 issue-va!!! Dhrogi!!!)
2)Explain with reasons who is the hottest Singapore's next door girl
3)What do Thai girls talk about in the issue?



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I can't believe it!!!! lol....Is this some kind of incentive to get down the guys to study?
This exam goodie bag ultimately did not have anything related to exams, not even a pen.
I now looked at the survey form. Some drab questions, sidily giving me nice nice information about hall 9, trying to entice me into staying in this *damned* hall the next year also.
Poda, unga jambamellaam balikkaadhu!!!
I'd gone to the block supper with a bad headache.
After another two hours, it changed to stomach ache...sirichu sirichu vairu vallika aaramichudchu!

***SDU
SDU stands for Social Development Union. This is the the organization founded by Singapore Government to get more Singaporeans to date, fall in love and get married. Eppo indha velaiyellam government aaramichadho... see what SDU has become:
Sad, Desperate and Ugly.
ya, I know, it's such a sad situation that it has been termed thus.
Today, we saw a group of final year students from my school showing their project to us. The video showed us differing views of the SDU and many other issues like that.
I found it really funny that Singaporeans actually need an organization to monitor over them, arrange for dates, get them married and so on. Worse than this is the baby bonus. You have no idea how shocked I was to know that the Singapore government was giving married couples incentives to have more children.
$XXXXX for your first child, $XXXXX for the second child, $XXXXX for the third child, some more for the fourth child.
All these policies are announced on August 9 every year, which is Singapore's national day, when the PM addresses the nation.
I'm sure the next year, they'll fully agree to sponsor a child's education and health care costs if he is the fifth child!
Well, I personally feel that all this is quite a sad state of affairs - money for getting more children??
Immediately after this "baby bonus" scheme was announced, there was a flurry of discussions.
What can we do if youngsters simply don't want to get married?
The answer is simple.
Marriage Bonus!!!!
ya, these do exist, I'm not kidding. Youngsters get some incentives to buy a residential flat easier if they were married than if they were alone. Sounds like our tamil movies' house owners' conditions right?
I sometimes don't know what to do in a place like this. Best is to ignore and laugh it off. That seems to be rarely possible as teachers always turn to us international students for opinions on such policies.
"Vani, what do you think will the reaction if you go show this video to your friends in India?"
lol....it will be the best comedy video we've ever seen!
Hmm..I just realized this is a looo....ng post.
For those of you who reached till here, thanks!!!! :)