From the Mediacorp production 四个门牌一个梦:
SGrean chicken rice boss: Wah! 你都几岁还去应征啊？
[Wah! You how old oredi? Still go for interview?]
HK migrant: 凭良心说，你现在的体力还能做教练吗？
[Please la! Touch your heart and tell me if you still have the stamina to be a (table tennis) coach?]
Angry SGrean: 讲到体力我更生气，本地有很多外国的教练都已经70多岁了，那又怎么说？
[Eh... Dun talk about stamina. I get even more dulan. Other foreigner coaches are more than 70 years old, can?! Then how??]
HK migrant: 老戴，你一只脚都踏进棺材了，还做什么工作呢？你学学人家，提个鸟笼，养养鸟，过过日子多好。
[Eh Dai! You are damn old already! Don't already work la! Be like everyone else, go buy a bird and birdcage, then enjoy life la!]
SGrean chicken rice boss: 对对对！外地人是不会跟你抢养鸟的。
[Yah Yah Yah!! Foreigners will not compete with you in bird-keeping leh!]
*SGrean chicken rice boss and HK Migrant laugh at Angry SGrean*
HK migrant: (to SGrean chicken rice boss) 还是你有幽默感啊。哈哈哈!
[Eh... Unlike someone else, you got sense of humor! HAHAHA!]
Angry SGrean: 笑吧笑吧，尽管笑吧，将来你们的子子孙孙的工作给外地人抢着去做，看你们还笑不笑得出来？
[Laugh la! Laugh la! Next time your kids and grandchildren have no jobs bcoz foreigners take all the jobs ah! Then see if you can still laugh!]
HK migrant: 你老是口口声声说外地人新加坡人，分得那么清楚干什么？其实我也是从香港移民过来的。20几年了。跟你一样，住的是组屋，吃的是鸡贩，生活习惯都一样。那你说我是外地人还是新加坡人啊？
[You like to differentiate between foreigners and Singaporeans so much. What for? I came here from Hong Kong 20 years ago. I stay in HDB, eat chicken rice, live like Singaporean. So am I foreigner or Singaporean ah?]
SGrean chicken rice boss: 说来说去，怪你自己没有本事，你的工作才会被外地人抢去。
[Please lor! You only have yourself to blame la! You lousy that's why foreigners take your job.]
Angry SGrean: (damn sian face) 你说够了没有啊？你在这边讲话，可以赚钱吗？
[Eh... Enough or not? Talk so much, no need to make money ah? Drop from sky ah?]
SGrean chicken rice boss: 真的可以赚钱leh..你还没给钱leh...
[Really can talk and make money at the same time leh... Pay for your chicken rice leh!]
Angry SGrean: 拿去拿去,走开走开，看到你我就没有胃口了。
[Har Nah! Take la! Take la! Go away la! See you already no appetite.]
SGrean chicken rice boss: 好我走，你慢慢吃，不够再叫hor..."
[Ok lor... You slowly eat... Not enough order some more hor!]
*SGrean chicken rice boss walks off, laughing.
HK migrant also laughing while drinking kopi.
Angry SGrean quietly eats chicken rice*
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Qn: What's infinitely worse than foreigners laughing at Singaporeans?
Ans: The Singaporean who laughs at another Singaporean for not doing well.
And such Singaporeans are not fictional.
There are indeed many Singaporeans who behave this way.
I have a job, so I laugh at you for complaining about foreigners taking away your job.
I have a condo, so I laugh at you for complaining about rising HDB prices.
I have a bungalow, so I laugh at you for complaining about rising condo prices.
I drive a BMW, so I laugh at you for complaining about the MRT trains.
I dine at MBS, so I laugh at you for complaining about rising food prices at hawker centres.
Fundamentally, these people are insecure folks. They need others to be 'less' than themselves so that they can feel good about themselves.
Of course, this is not unique to Singapore, i.e. there are such people in other countries laughing at their own kind too.
But we must learn to recognise that this is not the time to laugh at our own kind. This is the time to stand together as one.
Unfortunately, I am beginning to have to believe that, given the widening income gap, it is difficult to stand together as one. We are not in the freaking 60s anymore.
An ex-boyfriend of mine insisted to me, over an hour-long Facebook debate, that no one has been left behind in Singapore.
He, with blue-collar folks and from neighbourhood school, is a HDB boy made-good, i.e. got himself ivy-leagued, now works in a foreign bank and lives in semi-D with his wife from an upper-middle class background.
He also believes that, because he has 'made it', that those who have not are simply lousy. It's solely their fault for not trying hard enough.
I was dating a boor. KNN.
I hate such realisations. I took too long.
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