Are You Proud Of Singlish?

If you're not,then it's a shame.The Australians,on the other hand, are very proud of their Ozlish,I tell you.Besides g'day,Sheilas, mozzies, sparkies and barbies,see if you can guess the meaning of these words:-

Take your togs or cossies, your esky packed with amber fluid and maybe a dog's eye for a snack. Bend the elbow too much? Stop off for a long black, a short black or a flat white to make sure you don't end up a few kangaroos (roos) loose in the top paddock.

Translation: Take your swimwear and cooler box full of beer and a meat pie to eat. A bit too much to drink? Have a small or large black espresso coffee or a white coffee to make sure you are fully compos mentis when you get home.

Welcome to the Australian vocabulary.

Under planned new citizenship tests designed by the government to bind a nation of immigrants to common values, would-be Australians will have to demonstrate they know the meaning of mateship, having a go and dinkum.

I wonder if our government were to implement similar citizenship tests, the would-be Singaporeans would have to know words like

• wah piang eh
• jia lat liao
• wah lao eh
• sibeisiong
• you got bring
• where got?
• eat already,liao

Since this is a family blog,I left out all the obvious Hokkien thermonuclear vulgarities.