before i make some lame joke about muggers, here's the first ever multimedia content on this blog!
nothing much to note, except the hilarious moment when Craig Bellamy, missing an absolute open goal, stands there with his head in his hands while teammate Mark Gonzalez rifles home the rebound. (roughly 51st and 57th second of the video)
In the words of Homer Simpson, "Doh!"
Anyway, it's a very interesting point to note that the word mugger has a very different meaning in Singapore compared to the rest of the world. In Singapore, it refers to someone who studies very hard - elsewhere, it refers to someone who hides in dark alleys at night, bonks you on the head and takes your wallet.
I imagine it must cause some confusion when Singaporean students go overseas...
Roles:
Singaporean Student Complaining About Competitives School System (SG)
Clueless Ang-Moh Trying To Decipher The Intricacies Of Singlish (AM)
SG: Yah lar... how to be the top of the class in Singapore... whole country full of chao muggers
AM: *has the strange mental picture of innocent students being waylaid by miscreants*
Sounds like decent material for a mrbrown.com podcast, actually.
Bet the foreigners will start wondering how true Singapore's reputation for low crime is, if we're "full of muggers"
I mean, all the top muggers from the surrounding countries come here lor... worse still, the government sponsors some of them...
SG: "Yah man, NUS is the worst place lah.. like, every single person there is a super-mugger"
AM: *thinking that it must be quite hard to study if you're beaten up and robbed every single day*
therefore, for those people going overseas to study, please be aware that using the word mugger in a foreign setting may lead to international misunderstandings. =)
