I feel like I am going to shit myself.
Today we’re going to get millennials to try guessing,
old Singlish slangs.
Hello!
How good is your Singlish?
I'm the best.
Tok kong! (Very good)
My tongue is so Asian that...
Whatever that comes out is probably Singlish lah.
So, are you proud of Singlish?
Yah.
I think it’s like, true to our culture.
And I guess it’s something that identifies us as Singaporeans lah.
So that’s why we’re proud of it. Yah.
Wah...
Wah! Patriotism!
Damn fast. One sentence.
It’s like the word 'can', got 12 meanings.
Really meh?
Yah!
I went to see. You try.
Favorite Singlish slang?
Win liao lor!
I like 'seh'.
Like you mabok (drunk) then you seh.
My friends call me the 'seh seh bird'.
We're actually going to be testing you
on some Singlish slangs.
Okay.
But, it's going to be the old school kind.
People already say I 'Angmor pai (Caucasian type)'.
I think I cannot win lah.
Lai liao (Come already), lai liao!
Shut up!
Dude.
I don't even have a dialect.
'Jiak' is eat right?
Yah.
And then, 'Zua'.
So, I mean that could be like cockroach?
Wait, or catch cockroach?
You like to make a lot of noise with your mouth ah?
Like...
Eh, don't jiak zua leh! Go do something!
Don't be a pig?
Don't pretend.
Lazy.
Don't slack!
Don't chao geng (slack)!
It's like chao geng.
You got it!
Oh my God!
Me everyday in this office.
Sorry Julian!
Today I was in the office. Harriet's chair empty,
cause she eat snake.
Your head lah!
Where got?
Don't offended lah, I forming sentence.
I have no idea at all.
I legit like, mind blank.
Wrap up.
Eh, that's pang kang (end work) right?
Yah, yah.
Shit until cannot shit ah?
I know!
Means like, cooperate.
Means like together - work together.
Don't like... Don't pakat with your friend,
and lie to your mother together.
Something like that.
Pak is it like the...
Pak!
Oh. I thought it's like,
"Don't make me pakat you ah!"
Like, slap you ah.
Okay so, so far John got 2 points, you got 0 ah!
Huh, really meh? Why?
Why?
Why he got 2 points?
Cause he answer first.
Oh, yes!
Oh, must he answer first?
I waiting for him to answer leh.
Huh?
Pang buay ki.
Sounds like some restaurant name you know.
Like go there to eat Bak Kut Teh or something.
Cannot wake up ah?
Oh! Fart smell.
I come home, I pang bo (can't insert) key.
My key not working.
He last minute pang buay ki.
Never attend. Never show up.
He last minute cannot wake up!
I say don't pangseh your friend,
or some shit.
Then you say pangseh. You say pang buay ki!
Eh! Old one!
Oh, okay.
You older mah! Then you win lah!
Oh!
What language is that?
Like,
I don't know leh.
(Gibberish)
You know?
Singlish got 'gabra' one meh?
I don't know, I don't know.
Walao, I think of Pokemon leh!
Let's say you see a Math question.
Like x plus y, times z, to the power of 10.
Confused af.
Don't be blur.
Like, don't gabra gabra then don't know how to do.
Is it like, don't act big?
Like, don't act like you can like...
Let's say the thing very heavy then you don't uplorry lah.
I feel this is like an army term.
You know those big ass lorries that you know,
like, vroom vroom.
Then got a lot of like, the army boys with the green face,
at the back.
Then they just sit. Then they look damn sad.
Means must work harder.
To load the stuff up the lorry.
Wah, this one uplorry already!
Okay, that sentence is so freaking generic.
Don't uplorry.
Like, I can use any word in that sentence to make sense.
Don't act already! You know?
Is it don't spoil market?
Board the car.
No, lorry is what?
Lorry, I don't know leh.
Big car.
Big car!
Uplorry is from 'ki qia'.
'Ki qia' means die.
So, uplorry can mean two things.
Either a person die,
or the shop or whatever business close down.
What?
I never heard of this like, word before.
Maybe this one is like, mispronunciation you know?
It's actually 'eat grass'.
Or maybe some atas (high class) 'jiak sai (eat shit)'.
What if like you're eating let's say, popcorn.
Uh huh.
Then you eat until no more popcorn then you still dig.
Then you, eh?
Then you like "ah you eat glass ah?"
Don't eat poorly.
Cause like, I was just thinking - I just translate to Chinese.
You know like, eat glass?
If you're watching TV -
In a scenario where you are watching TV in your living room okay?
Then there's someone else in that room,
there's a chance that you'll say this to that person.
Eh, you eat glass grow up ah?
Means, you transparent ah?
I last time always get scolded.
Yah, I also.
Wait. Is it like, when you're like, watching the TV very intently,
and then the person like, walk pass you.
And you're just like, "I'm eating glass!"
In a sense like, I'm consuming the television.
Is it your shit runny?
Old turtle.
I wanted to say laosai (diarrhea).
Eh, don't be an embarrassment!
Throw face!
Oh my God!
Eh, don't be an embarrassment, your saliva spit out lah!
You lose face, to be embarrassed that kind of thing.
Oh, you learn Chinese?
This is not a dating session bro.
We drifted too far.
Everyday we stray further away.
Rice?
Slow?
Something to do with eating.
I think it's slow.
Cause claypot food take 30 minutes to cook.
Don't be a tofu.
What's the opposite of claypot?
Rattan basket.
No!
You know claypot got hole one?
Then, your face got hole.
Oi!
Claypot got hole meh?
You go through a lot of experiences,
but actually you're brittle inside.
When it comes to things like gambling,
once the results are out,
people might have the tendency to exclaim this.
Like, claypot ah!
Like, cool.
To be like...
Uncool?
I only know pot calling kettle black.
Is it relevant?
Oh, huat ah!
Means you win.
Lose all the money.
Then it's a claypot because it's supposed to be a gold pot.
Eh claypot! Then they...
Eh, they stir the claypot like that what.
Claypot is the opposite of jackpot.
So it means total loss.
Huh, what? What's the context?
My parents never teach me this one.
I lose leh!
Eh, you claypot lah!
Very hard, because everything was in dialect.
Yah, but I think I still did pretty well.
I think quite difficult ah.
Damn difficult.
Eh what's the, embarrassed?
Yah we really...
Very lao kwee (embarrassed).
Yah, we really lao kwee leh.
Very fun, very interesting.
I think quite easy.
Cannot lah, we cannot. We too strong for each other.
No lah, I too strong. I stronger than you.
No, we're the same.
The old Singlish terms right, are still kinda being used.
It's just that new Singlish, we add on.
When you say 'qi kua mai (try it)' in dialect last time,
it's like "you want to test me is it?"
Like they legit want to fight.
But now like...
Play play one.
No leh.
The tone different.
When I say 'qi kua mai', I don't play.
Eh, come lah! Qi kua mai?
Eh cannot, cut!
The old Singlish is... Subtext until cannot subtext.
As in, I just think that like,
nowadays the Singlish that we use right,
is very... It's not so much of dialects anymore.
It's more of like just using English,
with like, the typical terms like "lah", "lor".
The old generation is like more idioms based.
And then the new generation is like more idiot based.
Yah!