Thursday, July 22, 2010

Go speak English yourself

listening to gigi leung's 'Shi Jian Hai'...
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Some people really get my goat.  Or donkey. Or elephant. Or some kind of animal.
R read me a letter published in the papers. This person was complaining about the bus driver not being able to speak English. Such letters always get me very irritated.

EXCUSE ME. THIS GUY IS A FRICKIN BUS DRIVER. WHY ARE YOU DEMANDING SO MUCH FROM HIM??? 

Why don't you say he should speak Malay and Tamil too, since these races also made up a significant percentage of the population? Make him go for German/ French/ Italian classes too, since YOG is coming up and there would be foreign delegates in town. Singaporean bus drivers must all learn to speak Spanish as well, coz Spain won the world cup (this makes no sense but I don't give a hoot). Why don't YOU go and learn how to speak Mandarin or Malay or Tamil, depending on what the race the driver is? He's a BUS DRIVER. Just make sure he drives the bus bloody well, and that should suffice!

Let's do a trade-off: the bus driver will go learn how to speak English and you shall go and learn how to drive a bus. I think it sounds extremely fair.

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