I accidentally lit the blue touchpaper yesterday by putting my Singaporean best friend Chantalelisa Jewell head to head with my new Malaysian friend, Quaintly Tuqiri. I wanted to hear them arguing in Singlish.
Chantalelisa was a little hesitant to get started, but soon got into the swing of it:
Chantalelisa Jewell: u say wan
Chantalelisa Jewell: i just follow
Quaintly Tuqiri: of cos i say lar if not who say?
Chantalelisa Jewell: confirm not penn say. he so blur like sotong
Quaintly Tuqiri: he memang dunno wat we talking wan
Chantalelisa Jewell: ok ok
Quaintly Tuqiri: so bad hor we all
Chantalelisa Jewell: we no bad, penn bad
Penn Euler: you're right, i have no idea, but it's great!
But then somehow I became the target of a combined Asian assault!
Quaintly Tuqiri: yalar penn go ask us to fight!
Chantalelisa Jewell: he want to kena slap
Penn Euler: yipes!
Quaintly Tuqiri: ya asking for trouble man!
Chantalelisa Jewell: whack him upside down
Quaintly Tuqiri: kenot simply disturb girls wan you know
Penn Euler: Alla mak!
Chantalelisa Jewell: inside out, then he know
Quaintly Tuqiri: ya we have the women power!
Chantalelisa Jewell: wah he so smart wan..use alamak
Quaintly Tuqiri: haha now he scared dy
Penn Euler: I'm calling chari over to hear this, it's awesome
Chantalelisa Jewell: no no, enough already
Quaintly Tuqiri: you think wat, we free entertainment ah?!
Chantalelisa Jewell: want to hear must pay ah
Penn Euler: i'll give you both a free piano!
Chantalelisa Jewell: so cheapo
Quaintly Tuqiri: we perform for you must have marnee ler!
Chantalelisa Jewell: u think money grow on trees is it?
Quaintly Tuqiri: yalor!
Thankfully Charisma arrived at this moment to lend moral support:
Quaintly Tuqiri: hi charisma!
Chantalelisa Jewell: this apek confim money no enough
Penn Euler: i'm being ridiculed in Singlish!
Chantalelisa Jewell: hi Charisma
Charisma Kingsford giggles
Quaintly Tuqiri: apek or ah beng first???
Chantalelisa Jewell: oh ah beng
Quaintly Tuqiri: i think he ah beng lar
Quaintly Tuqiri: he too young to be ah pek
Chantalelisa Jewell: cos he a bit young to be ahpek
Quaintly Tuqiri: yalor
Chantalelisa Jewell: now he bring his ahlian
Penn Euler: i think they're being rude about me, but it's hard to tell
Charisma Kingsford: mmmm-hmm!
Chantalelisa Jewell: hehehehe
Quaintly Tuqiri: but mebbe need some yellow hair first then only real ah beng
Chantalelisa Jewell: lol
Quaintly Tuqiri: eh ah beng got wear suit wan ah?
Penn Euler: what the hell is an ah beng?!
Chantalelisa Jewell: ok, that is enough singlish/manglish for the day
Quaintly Tuqiri: haiyor, you dunno, mah google lor
Quaintly Tuqiri: don so lazy wan!
Chantalelisa Jewell: yah lor, can don be so laxy
So what the heck is an ah beng? And why was I being called one?
Chantalelisa Jewell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_beng
Chantalelisa Jewell: so pampered
Penn Euler: Ah Beng is a term commonly given to a member of a group of young Chinese men in Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia. These Chinese men, whose age range from their early teens to late 20s, usually centralise in the busier and more developed cities in the region, but are usually seen as originating from smaller or more rural towns.
Finally Quaintly called Aureis Trevellion over, who is also Malaysian, and she saved me by injecting some sense into proceedings:
Chantalelisa Jewell: hello Aureis
Quaintly Tuqiri: wah your shoes so the pink!!
Quaintly Tuqiri: Aureis, Penn, who finds Singlish/Manglish very entertaining
Quaintly Tuqiri: he a bit strange wan lar
Quaintly Tuqiri: don layan too much k
Quaintly Tuqiri: Aureis oso Malaysian like me
Aureis Trevellion: yes...but not as strange as quaintly
Chantalelisa Jewell: so we now can suan him
Quaintly Tuqiri: but she no speak Manglish wan
Quaintly Tuqiri: too proper oredi
Quaintly Tuqiri: ya but she infected by the Brits lar
Quaintly Tuqiri: how can liddat!
Chantalelisa Jewell: u don no meh
Aureis Trevellion: oh shut up...you don't actually speak like this either you know?
Thankyou, Aureis! But even more, thankyou to CJ and Q for keeping me so well entertained!
1 comment:
You never explain what is Singlish, you expect people to know issit?
XD
And where I got speak Singlish? I Malaysia mari lar, I speaking the Manglish!
Btw "ah beng" is generally used as a derogatory term (I bet you figured that part out :P) usually referring to young men who, among other things, can't speak proper English, dye their hair blonde, and mod their cars to add huge vrooming exhaust pipes and top-notch sound systems so that when they zoom past you, the "boom boom boom" of techno music playing full blast can be heard echoing into the night.
The female version of an "ah beng" is "ah lian" ;)
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