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A Daughter Of Malaya
I am a daughter of a piece of land formerly known as the Malayan Peninsular. Politics and a matter of convenience have divided this land into two. The island at the south is now a sovereign nation called Singapore and the peninsular is known as Malaysia.
I have lived in both countries for a considerable period of time and identify closely with both. My family is firmly rooted here, on both sides of the Causeway.
While the two countries have taken very different paths to growth and are governed with fundamentally different principles, the people of these two countries have more similarities than differences, if only they choose to acknowledge them.
This is the reason why both Singapore and Malaysia claim ownership to signature food items such as satay, char kuay teow and teh tarik. And this is the reason why the people of both countries speak the same lingo - Singlish or Manglish - call it what you like, but they are essentially the same, with the ubiquitous -la and -one and quirky ungrammatical sentence structures. Anyone outside these two countries will find it difficult to understand the lingo.
In this blog, I comment as an observer with a passion and deep interest to see both countries succeed. Or rather, to see the people of both countries succeed.
Majulah Singapura and Malaysia Boleh!
I have lived in both countries for a considerable period of time and identify closely with both. My family is firmly rooted here, on both sides of the Causeway.
While the two countries have taken very different paths to growth and are governed with fundamentally different principles, the people of these two countries have more similarities than differences, if only they choose to acknowledge them.
This is the reason why both Singapore and Malaysia claim ownership to signature food items such as satay, char kuay teow and teh tarik. And this is the reason why the people of both countries speak the same lingo - Singlish or Manglish - call it what you like, but they are essentially the same, with the ubiquitous -la and -one and quirky ungrammatical sentence structures. Anyone outside these two countries will find it difficult to understand the lingo.
In this blog, I comment as an observer with a passion and deep interest to see both countries succeed. Or rather, to see the people of both countries succeed.
Majulah Singapura and Malaysia Boleh!
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