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52 WAYS YOU KNOW YOU'RE A SINGAPOREAN ... WHEN:

1. Tks 2 SMS, u dun no how 2 spel n e mor.

2 . You pat MRT and bus seats to "cool " them before you sit down.

3 . At lunch, you start discussing what to eat for dinner.

4 . Your wedding photos include shots of you dressed up like Louis XIV, or Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.

5 . When speaking to foreigners, you somehow feel a need to adopt an accent. (If you're a DJ, this happens even when you're not speaking to
foreigners.)

6 . You won't raise your voice to protest policies, but you'll raise your fists to whack someone over Hello Kitty.

7 . You're forever talking about businesses you want to set up but will probably never get around to starting.

8 . You don't know 3/4 of the people attending your wedding.

9 . You're never completely sure how many times you've sung the second verse of the National Anthem.

10 . You have kids for the tax advantages.

11 . You move to where you want your child to go to school.

12 . You feel you can't walk around naked in your own flat.

13 . You force your children to take Speech & Drama classes, but pray they won't wind up in Arts later on.

14 . You suddenly realize you're very interested in biotech - just like you suddenly realized three years ago that you were very interested in e-commerce, and before that, engineering, and before that, medicine and law.

15 . You think being an entrepreneur is setting up a bubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop right next to an existing bubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop.

16 . If you're a guy, whenever you get together with your guy friends, you invariably trade army stories.

17 . If you're a girl, whenever you get together with your girl friends, you invariably trade stories about how your stupid guy friends are forever trading army stories.

18 . It actually makes a difference to you being called an 'NSMan' rather than a 'Reservist'.

19 . You somehow feel that food tastes better when eaten by a "longkang".

20 .You think the most important sporting event in Singapore this year was David Beckham switching from Manchester United to Real Madrid.

21 . You've eaten more times at the Esplanade than you've actually seen shows there.

22 . You need campaigns to tell you how to be courteous, to flush toilets, have sex, etc.

23 . You feel the urge to add the suffix '-polis' to everything, viz. Biopolis, Airtropolis, Fusionopolis, Entrepolis, etc.

24 . You always feel oddly hungry at 11 pm, and are willing to drive to far away places for supper.

25 . You work at McDonald's when you're old rather than young.

26 . You'll gladly spend $50,000 on a car, but will go to great lengths to save a few bucks on ERP charges or even a few cents on a parking coupon.

27 . Pork floss and mayonnaise on bread is a completely natural combination to you.

28 . If you're pregnant, you have the strange ability to make people on the MRT fall asleep instantly.

29 . You ask for the bill by miming a signing movement.

30 . You've started referring to foreign employees as 'talent' instead of 'expatriates'.

31 . At the dinner table, you're always discussing which other food places serve better versions of what you're eating.

32 . You copy down licence plate numbers of cars involved in accidents.

33 . You think your boyfriend doesn't really love you unless he gives you part of his liver.

34 . You pronounce the letter 'R' as 'ah-rer' and the letter 'H' as 'haytch'.

35 . No matter how old you are, you keep associating people with their secondary schools.

36 . You're always on a quest for the definitive version of your favourite local dish.

37 . You believe that you can generate 'creativity' through rules and committees.

38 . You 'chope' a seat by placing a packet of tissues on the chair.

39 . You're very forthright with your criticisms of the Gahmen, unless there's a chance they might actually hear you.

40 . You diligently track the whereabouts of your favourite hawkers, i.e..you know that the famous Tiong Bahru Bao is now in Jurong, the famous Outram Char Kuay Teow is now in Hong Lim Centre and the famous Lau Hock Kien Hokkien mee from the old Lau Pa Sat is now at Beach Road.

41 . You'd rather drink your own pee than pay someone more for water.

42 . You secretly find that the best part of the Speak Good English Movement is hearing the Singlish bits in their ads.

43 . You don't mind queuing for hours to play 4D or to get a giveaway (even if you don't know what they're giving away at the head of the queue).

44 . You think we're living in a modern, sophisticated country even when our leaders still insist on wearing their school uniforms.

45 . You wish your constituency is in a walkover, because otherwise it's damn 'leceh'.

46 . During elections, you decide that there is no credible opposition even though you don't know the name of the opposition candidate in your constituency.

47 . You think having a constitution is like the condition you get when you don't eat enough fibre.

48. You pronounce the word "children" as "chill-ren" and the word "twelve" as "chwelf".

49. You drive without using your signal indicators and get annoyed when people suddenly decide to switch into "your" lane without using theirs (so you speed up to cut them off).

50. You'd rather park illegally in a carpark and block traffic, so as to be right next to the lifts/stairs/escalators, than park legally a bit further away.

51. When someone signals their intention to switch lanes you intentionally speed up to block them, so you learn to avoid signaling to get around this problem.

52. You never, ever give way.