SG Speaker Corner

[Vidboy10]

How was National day?

 

[Domination]

It was nice? We were discussing it a few pages back.

The parade was meh like always. The theme song made me liek our local indie band Electrico. We were supposed to take the pledge in unision at 8:22AM Singapore time. Etc. Etc.

And lastly.... We got holidays!

 

[mrfatso]

good for u, sian, i still have to go back school chiong ray tracing (hope don really have to literally camp at school to finish this :|) , and o by the way,

Darn u multi-core programming, i hate u ps3!! Esp u Linux!! arghhh

 

[Vidboy10]

It was nice? We were discussing it a few pages back.

The parade was meh like always. The theme song made me liek our local indie band Electrico. We were supposed to take the pledge in unision at 8:22AM Singapore time. Etc. Etc.

And lastly.... We got holidays!

You do realize that HK and SG go by that same tome right?

 

[xoinx]

just saw this on youtube

hmm not sure what you guys think, but nationalist feelings aside, i kind of feel that they exaggerate quite a bit. i mean no doubt singaporeans, esp heartlanders, do not have the best pronunciations, but i seriously think that they are deforming the words far beyond what is heard in singapore. maybe the fact that they added in their own taiwanese accent to our singlish makes it sound like crap!

maybe the only 2 i agree with are their pronunciation of "tissue paper" and "pregnant"... the latter being said quite close to what is commonly heard in singapore... but other than the fact that the "g" sound is not so obviously pronounced, it sounds perfectly understandable to me. haha, maybe i'm just too used to hearing such stuff.

 

[Domination]

They must have never heard themselves say English. Alot of their celebs pronounce english as badly as my mum, only those who actually have any better Englih education can even pronounce it as good as my ceven my classmates. Fuck them. They have no shame.

One thing I hate about Taiwan biz is that aside from their humor, some of them exaggerate too much. And sometimes, Singaporean stars like Kelly Poon actually din't help in preserving our image, since they are also the "typical Singaporeans".

 

[xoinx]

but its sad how we have only few singaporeans out there who are eloquent and fluent in both english and mandarin... i mean, you have the "kantang" singaporean who can speak very well in english, and get made fun of by the chinese speaking community for not being in touch with our chinese roots, and we have the chinese educated ones who speak mandarin very well, and get criticized for being poor in english despite coming from singapore.

then again, compared to the people from other countries in the region, our people are more fluent in both languages combined than others... so why are we still getting judged like that. maybe ppl are just jealous LOL!

 

[Vidboy10]

just saw this on youtube

Hurry AHHHHH!!
Lmao, that girl in the red shirt is a cutie. Haha

 

[Domination]

And I forgot one more point. We Singaproe is a cosmopolitan country and we welcome foreign workers. Couldn't it had slipped their minds that the person was actually really from phillipines or thailand and have the pronounciation. That said, they don't really all speak with those accents.

And what about the age of the person? Some that are older don't get to learn English. And some Malays, Indians and Chiense actually have been taught to learn their mother tongue at a younger age, and may have problems with some pronounciations. Some of the Taiwanese celebs may seem to be able to have "perfect prononciation", but they can't even finish a single fucking sentence.

And of course accents. Americans, Australians and British have different accents, jsut to name a few. So we are supposed to be copycats like those "perfect english" taiwanese? No, we speak it our own way. We can try speaking like Americans and all if we want. But no. Personally I try speaking with "perfect pronounciation" but I find speaking mroe naturally more comfortable.

Thats why, other than humor, I hate a lot of Taiwanese biz stuff.

 

[mrfatso]

guess a lot of them have never heard of the word "accent" and the thing is, while i was there on vacation, while i was sightseeing, i overheard a few of them talking in english, and well, the pronouciation didn't sound correct to me, but u don see me complaining now do u? Its cos of their accent ..

But still, i like to watch taiwan show(only those introducing food show like "漂食大三__" and that's it), i still have those fearful mental images of watching those 100++ episodes taiwanese drama :|

 

[iPikachu]

but its sad how we have only few singaporeans out there who are eloquent and fluent in both english and mandarin... i mean, you have the "kantang" singaporean who can speak very well in english, and get made fun of by the chinese speaking community for not being in touch with our chinese roots, and we have the chinese educated ones who speak mandarin very well, and get criticized for being poor in english despite coming from singapore.

then again, compared to the people from other countries in the region, our people are more fluent in both languages combined than others... so why are we still getting judged like that. maybe ppl are just jealous LOL!

im a katang, i think, since my chinese sucks.
but my friends can speak chinese but suck in english too.

 

[Domination]

I'm perfectly billingual

I just realised that Singapore game salesman don't their stuff... on the news. The guy was saying how "Wii and DS Lite will sell well because they have a lot of games" Thats true, but seriosuly? DS Lite? Not DSi?

 

[iPikachu]

I'm perfectly billingual

I just realised that Singapore game salesman don't their stuff... on the news. The guy was saying how "Wii and DS Lite will sell well because they have a lot of games" Thats true, but seriosuly? DS Lite? Not DSi?

wut
i guess they meant that dsi has lesser games than the ds? oh well.

 

[mrfatso]

arghh, gamestop has arrived in singapore, its the advent of noob salesmen/woman, o well, they been around all these time, just that the news just shown u guys another one of those noobs.

But can u really blame them sometime?? I am still looking for tales of monkey island, and i don feel like looking for a torrent(but i guess i don have much choice, now do i??) since click and point games are not popular in singapore :| So everytime i go around store ask around, they all give me that "wtf are u talking about" look

 

[Domination]

Is there actually any gamestop/ major video gaming shop like gamestop in Singapore? I hardly even see ads for video games(or consoles) Is the gaming market in Singapore really that closed? I've been to a game shop (only one, Funzcentre at AMK Hub) and there is actually loads of people in there every time.

And anybody knows where I can buy slot 2 expansion in shops... I don't want those meetup kinds, too much of a hassle with inconvenient times. And not online either, no paypal and parents don't want to use credit card and I can't get debit cards either.

 

[xoinx]

Is there actually any gamestop/ major video gaming shop like gamestop in Singapore? I hardly even see ads for video games(or consoles) Is the gaming market in Singapore really that closed? I've been to a game shop (only one, Funzcentre at AMK Hub) and there is actually loads of people in there every time.

And anybody knows where I can buy slot 2 expansion in shops... I don't want those meetup kinds, too much of a hassle with inconvenient times. And not online either, no paypal and parents don't want to use credit card and I can't get debit cards either.

hmmm, you can check out the following sites:

tingsin
qisahn
ffl-accessories

i know the first 2 have physical shops, and they have really good service (the former's technicians are quite skilled too)!! they may not show all the flashcarts and stuff on their website, but give them a call, they have quite a lot of stock usually and are quite friendly over the phone... tingsin is very out of the way, like woodlands, but qisahn is in orchard, far east building or something.

the 3rd one i just found off the web, doesn't look like they have a shop or anything, but at least they list ez3-in-1 on their page. not sure if it is the newer ez3-in-1+ though. calling and asking would be the best option...

final alternative... find a good adult friend or cousin, and ask them to help you buy through DX

haha


EDIT: if you want to... you could also make a shout out on sgclub and you'll see all the ppl hungry for business jumping at you LOL

 

[Domination]

I know all of those shops.... My friend helped me bought my now spoilt DSTT from ffl-accessories... Qisahn is pretty well known but I don't think I sell flashcarts anymore when I checked their site sometime ago.... And tingsin is not located in a convenient place. I guess I'll just give up and play a GBA PC emulator

 

[xoinx]

well, i think qisahn may still sell... since sd cards are listed on their site. no harm calling them haha...

and i think tingsin has an mrt meet up service or something, so may not be that bad.

 

[mrfatso]

well, i bought my slot-2 from that team cyclos website, they have a supplier in singapore, but u have to meet up. But, still the guy is pretty friendly de lor.

As for gamestop like places, there are probably some around singapore somewhere, just don expect to find flashcart easily, darn pirates giving flashcart seller a bad name, so now alot of people = flashcart with piracy instead of backup games :|

 

[Domination]

well, i bought my slot-2 from that team cyclos website, they have a supplier in singapore, but u have to meet up. But, still the guy is pretty friendly de lor.

thats ffl-accessories. I don't really think I want to meet up since they may want incovenient times or whatever... plus I don't think they meet up in yishun (I think they do meet up at khatib though)

And we already have 50 pages of spam now?