Friday, August 23, 2013

Seven Virtues vs Seven Sins

Patience, Wrath

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Reference: aga-aga

Aga-aga = roughly, more or less.

Happy National Day!


Monday, August 12, 2013

TLL

Refers to The Learning Lab. THE Elite Tuition Centre in Singapore.

Taking on another job

Refers to the phenomenon in Singapore where more than 80% of school children goes for additional private tuition on top of their daily school. This means that children in Singapore spend more than 50 hours studying every week. Higher than the number of hours a lot of working adults put in their day jobs.

Foundation Training

Refers to the part of Singapore's education system where the weakest students are asked to do remedial training and will be barred from entering Express Stream in secondary schools. This would mean that these weaker students would take one more year to complete their secondary education.

Certificate of Entitlement or COE

Refers to the piece of paper needed for someone to buy a car in Singapore. It ranged from $40,000 to $70,000 in the past 1-2 years (2011-2012).

Tio dua ki summon

Tio - received
Dua Ki - big, heavy, massive
Summon - Refers to a parking ticket in Singapore

Hence the whole phrase means receiving a huge parking ticket literally but the whole phrase is implying that Moe got a huge fine for employing underage girls.

This is also a satirical remark on the underage prostitution case in Singapore in 2012 when 50 men were criminally charged for obtaining sexual services from an underage prostitute girl.

EM One, Two and Three

The streaming system in Singapore's education framework. This has since been discontinued although variants of streaming exist widely in our primary schools.