Genuine Signs of FT Invasion Gone Out-of-hand
1. You delightfully discover your proficiency in translating for different types of FTs both in the office and in public.
2. You tell family and friends that only 5 out of 30+ executive staff in your office are Singaporean and only your Ah Mah is surprised.
3. Some signages now come in 8 languages, and most Singaporeans can only understand 2 of them.
4. The new ah beng groups downstairs speak unknown languages and you start to miss the sights and sounds of local bengs playing carrom, guitar and polishing motor bikes.
5. The evening Chinese news producer decides that a certain country's change in agricultural policy is the most important headline news of the day.
6. You start to see TV ads that feature a certain country's super-celebrities, which you and your whole bunch of friends have never heard of.
7. You have to argue with people in the office that Tampines is not pronounced as TAM - PINES. More than once.
8. Shitty local Chinese dramas start planting FT calefares in office settings, including the police force, to reflect reality.
9. You sit at the back row seat of the bus, with one construction FT on your left and four on your right, then one of them waves to another of his standing friend to come and squeeze together.
10. The emcee for national day celebrations needs to emphasize a certain performer is "home-grown", because his neighbouring-country-sounding name indicates otherwise.
11. Your chit-chat with friends over coffee reveals that each of you knows in person at least one girl whose sensitive body part/s have been squeezed by a specific type of FT at least once.
12. The FT olympic medal winner whom your government so excitedly tries to brainwash you into thinking she is local declares on another country's TV that she is NOT. She also hints that she would soon want to go HOME. (hohoho...)
13. You see on TV a high-level FT officer from the Ministry of Environment, who hails from one of the world's most polluted countries, explaining why you should pay for plastics bags at the supermarket.
14. An FT Minister decides you can now sell your kidney to the very needy but cash-rich. Provided it doesn't get robbed for the same purpose.
15. Your friendly neighbourhood Minister-MP tells us that we will suffer terribly if FTs are retrenched first.
16. An FT president and CEO of a public transport company tells you that "the importance of the train is to ensure you can pack as many people as possible".
1. You delightfully discover your proficiency in translating for different types of FTs both in the office and in public.
2. You tell family and friends that only 5 out of 30+ executive staff in your office are Singaporean and only your Ah Mah is surprised.
3. Some signages now come in 8 languages, and most Singaporeans can only understand 2 of them.
4. The new ah beng groups downstairs speak unknown languages and you start to miss the sights and sounds of local bengs playing carrom, guitar and polishing motor bikes.
5. The evening Chinese news producer decides that a certain country's change in agricultural policy is the most important headline news of the day.
6. You start to see TV ads that feature a certain country's super-celebrities, which you and your whole bunch of friends have never heard of.
7. You have to argue with people in the office that Tampines is not pronounced as TAM - PINES. More than once.
8. Shitty local Chinese dramas start planting FT calefares in office settings, including the police force, to reflect reality.
9. You sit at the back row seat of the bus, with one construction FT on your left and four on your right, then one of them waves to another of his standing friend to come and squeeze together.
10. The emcee for national day celebrations needs to emphasize a certain performer is "home-grown", because his neighbouring-country-sounding name indicates otherwise.
11. Your chit-chat with friends over coffee reveals that each of you knows in person at least one girl whose sensitive body part/s have been squeezed by a specific type of FT at least once.
12. The FT olympic medal winner whom your government so excitedly tries to brainwash you into thinking she is local declares on another country's TV that she is NOT. She also hints that she would soon want to go HOME. (hohoho...)
13. You see on TV a high-level FT officer from the Ministry of Environment, who hails from one of the world's most polluted countries, explaining why you should pay for plastics bags at the supermarket.
14. An FT Minister decides you can now sell your kidney to the very needy but cash-rich. Provided it doesn't get robbed for the same purpose.
15. Your friendly neighbourhood Minister-MP tells us that we will suffer terribly if FTs are retrenched first.
16. An FT president and CEO of a public transport company tells you that "the importance of the train is to ensure you can pack as many people as possible".
