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Kereta means car or cart in this case, Ayer or Air means water. But where's the bull or Lembur? Unless somebody took the bull and bullshit about it?

I think Buffalo Cart Water is more appropriate, since they actually used water buffaloes to cart water in the old days, not that i was there but from pictures.

The QingMing Festival has been around for more than 2500 years! It has been since the Chou dynasty!

First you say this, then you say this. Can you make up your mind?

Harvest celebrations or thanksgivings are not commemorated during 中元节 but on 中秋节 in China. In anyway, your so-called mid-summer celebration or summer solstice is based on solar calendar, whereas the farmers in ancient china relied on the lunar calendar. Also ancestor worship practiced by...

I think the stare at George Yeo was because of the call by our great leader to Obama last year for US to engage China so as to strike a balance in the Pacific. The Chinese netizens were really pissed but the government tried to be nonchalant about it and even loan 2 pandas to us. So now he is...

PO2WQ is rite. 新明日报 is a Singapore Chinese-language afternoon newspaper, started on March 18, 1967, by Singapore businessman Liang Renzhi (梁润之) and the renowned Hong Kong writer Louis Cha as an offshoot of Hong Kong's Ming Pao (明报).

Wrong! Star is pronounced as Seng, whereas San is new in Cantonese. Actually both SengKahPor and SanKahPor were used interchangeable in the old times.

The last time I checked, Phillip Morris the world's largest tobacco company is still there. Lehman Bro bonds and Maddox made a lot of people broke or even commit suicide. People at the gulf of mexico is still suffering from the oil leak. People in Bhopal, India still haven't got their justice...

Huh? Aren't Seng, Beng, Wah, Huay, etc easier to pronounce than David, Vincent, Elizabeth,etc. Also one of the prime reasons why many Americans shorten these names to Dave, Vince or Liz. And I am only talking about so-called 'first names'.

Chinese no ethics, then angmos sell opium to Chinese got ethics meh?

Unless my english is failing me, I thought the title of this thread is 'Chinese Who Use English Names Lack Confidence' not 'why aren't Malays adopting English/Christian names'

You are going off tangent here. We are not discussing the merits and pitfalls of colonialism here.

And you think the brits were well loved by the malayan colonies' population? Not from what i've heard from the older pre-independence generation. They say the Brits discriminated against and bullied the asian races - that's why the push for independence. And the parents of that time esp the...

In that case Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia should have a lot of people with french christian names because there were many french missionary schools there as well, and they were french colonies too. But that is not the case, why?

Many South Koreans are christian but i seldom see them having christian or western names. I guess their cultural roots are stronger than their religious roots.