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Just for laughs. Please do not be offended if your name or your loved ones' names are mentioned. Carl Chng - Ass (in Hokkien) Monica Chng - Touch your ass (in Hokkien) Jane Tan - Fry eggs (in Mandarin) Mike Tan - Sell eggs (in Mandarin) Paul Chan - Bankrupt (in Mandarin) Nelson Tan - Bird lay eggs (in Mandarin) Nelson Chong - Bird grow worms (in Mandarin) Carmen Tng - Leg hair long (in Hokkien) Pete Tsai - Nose droppings (in Hokkien) Nina Beh - the NNB in "KNNBCCB" (in Hokkien) Jasmine Tee - Jasmine Tea (in English) Harry Kok - Hairy C.ock (in English) Judy Soo - Fated to lose (in Mandarin) Lucy Leow - You are dead (in Hokkien) Suzie Leow - Lose till dead (in Hokkien) Please contribute if you have any.
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I learnt how to pronounce Porsche the same way as Jeremy Clarkson did in Top Gear but that made me an Alien among my friends (Don't act angmoh/act atas la). As Porsche originated from Germany, the Germans pronounce it as Por-sha, British and Americans mainly Porsche as it is and local (Singaporeans) say Por-Shayyy. And I just realized I've been pronouncing Volkswagen wrongly my whole life. "Volkswagen: We said earlier that Germans turn their 'w's into 'v's. Well, their 'v's also become 'f's. What the eff, right? So the biggest German carmaker is folks-va-gun, with that last syllable a clipped enunciation of "gun" (as in pistol). If you're keen to get a job with the new local distributor, get the name right: folks-va-gun." Pagani Huayra - Jeremy Clarkson & co has stumbled over the Huayra many times and hates it. According to Horatio Pagani himself, it's "why-air-ra". Latio - For me it's La-Sio instead of La-Tio Audi - It should be Ow-Dee, not Aw-Dee Other commonly mispronounced names: Peugeot Tuscani Hyundai Volkswagen Touareg Nissan Qashqai Renault Citroën Koenigsegg
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One of the previous Corona model was nicknamed locally as 'Big Backside'.... it's ka-chng did look bigger than others' The Merc E200 series in the later part of 90s was called 'Doa-Sui-Bak' aka 'Big-Small Eyes' for obvious reason....... Anyone remembers other nicknames??
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..I used to want 'From the Womb to the Tomb' as my company name but there is 1 better The husband of a pregnant wife was thinking of buying insurance for his unborn baby. So he asked Great Western and the agent said, "don't worry man, we'll provide insurance right FROM THE BASKET TO THE CASKET". The man was impressed but thought that he should probably seek another opinion. He then approached Frudential and the agent replied, "Oh, we have a new insurance policy which can protect your unborn child FROM THE WOMB RIGHT UP TO THE TOMB". The man was stunned but thought that maybe all salesmen like to b-------t and decided to see the agent from BIB. He told the BIB agent what Frudential and Great Western had to offer. The BIB agent thought for a while and then said, "Tell you something, we have one that is even better than Frudential and Great Western. We'll insure your child FROM ERECTION TO RESURRECTION".
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SINGAPORE - The Parliament of Singapore is calling for the general public to make nominations for Nomination Members of Parliament (NMP). Potential nominees should have rendered distinguished public service or brought honour to the Republic. They could also have distinguished themselves in the field of arts and letters, sports, culture, the sciences, business, industry, the professions, social or community service or the labour movement. Candidates should also be citizens of Singapore, of the age of 21 years or above on the day of nomination and currently on the register of electors. They should be residents in Singapore at the date of nomination and have been residents for not less than 10 years prior to that date. The public should nominate people who have the capability to take an active part in the proceedings of Parliament and can speak, read and write - unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause - at least English, Malay, Mandarin or Tamil. Organisations that wish to nominate members for selection should submit their names to the coordinators of the respective functional groups they fall under. They are: Mr Tony Chew (business and industry), Mr John De Payva (labour), Professor Tan Kok Chai (professions), Ms Ang Bee Lian (social service organisations), Mr Yam Ah Mee (civic and people sector), Professor Tan Chorh Chuan (tertiary educational institutions) and Mr Edmund Cheng (media, arts and sports organisations). Submissions can be made at the Parliament House located at 1 Parliament Place, Singapore 178880. The closing date for submission of names is December 8, 2011 at 4.30 pm. http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews...102-308352.html what do you think? Who shall we nominate?
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Nissan Motor Co said that it would roll out a new family of cars later this year, picking China for the new product launch for the first time. The Livina Geniss is to make its world debut at the International Motor Show Frankly when I first saw the new name Livina Geniss - I also saw - Virgina Peniss I mean which high level Japanese Nissan Exec signed off a silly arsed name like that?? -
came across this link where some brands are familiar to us. And knowing our SG england standard, many of us will mis pronouce most of them....... https://sg.screen.yahoo.com/business-insider-sg/way-15-brand-names-youre-040000678.html
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Can anyone explain the popularity of French sounding names for small businesses like hair salons. I just saw this one in Toa Payoh: COZY DE BEAUTY. I don't even want to ask what it means... Then in Balestier, we have HAIR FIGURE DE SALON.
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should we bring back the concept of dialect surnames/names? ever since the early eighties, the names of Singaporean Chinese had gone through the hanyu pinyin revolution i remember it caused a confusion in the NS (in later years) because many had the same names now, it also caused confusion between Singaporean Chinese and China Chinese i like dialect names... it's an unique part of our local culture (like Taiwan and HK) and we shouldn't discard it will you give your children dialect names, apart from English names? or will you give them hanyu pinyin names? or half half (dialect surname, hanyu pinyin name)?
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Any nice Chinese names to recommend? No intention to seek advice from outside masters to "calculate". TIA
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anyone know of any credit card issuers here which can issue card with chinese name embossed on the card ?
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a controversy/talking point recently actually no big deal lah... maybe they really want to cater for the 1m PRC here? haha anyway if they want to make things easier for our old folks who may have difficulties understanding English, they may want to announce the stations in the old names eg Lavender is "mang gar ka" instead of "lao ming da" or Kovan is "ou gang lark kok jio" instead of "gao wen" i'm think many of our old folks won't know where "lao ming da" and "gao wen" refers to, so no point...
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Any recommendation pls for new born babies? Thanks
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[extract] Along with the introduction of the Chinese-market-only 301 saloon, Peugeot has revised its model naming convention to distinguish between emerging market products and existing products. The change is quite minimal actually. It only affects the last digit of the naming system. Well, at least there is some change, unlike spending a bomb to rename Marina Bay as
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Business Times - 28 Feb 2012 DBS security head quits, cites health reasons By NISHA RAMCHANDANI AND KENNETH LIM (SINGAPORE) There has been no indication so far that the card-skimming syndicate which struck three DBS Bank ATMs has been selling the data cloned from the cards online, the bank said yesterday. 'We are working closely with the police on the investigation, and so far, the sale of cloned data online has not been detected,' said a DBS spokesman in response to queries from BT, commenting on speculation that the syndicate could have sold confidential client data online. The card-skimming syndicate first hit DBS customers in January, withdrawing cash from ATMs in Malaysia with clones of original cards used at two ATM machines in Bugis in November. Nearly 700 DBS customers lost a total of about $1 million, which the bank compensated. DBS also deactivated and replaced the cards of 2,726 customers - deemed to be 'high-risk' - who had used the two ATMs at Bugis. This was followed by another bout of unauthorised withdrawals on Feb 19, this time in Singapore, when the fraudsters stole $23,000 from the accounts of 17 DBS customers. Last week, DBS revealed that it believed a different ATM - without divulging the location - in addition to the two at Bugis had been compromised at around the same time of the Bugis skimming. The 17 customers were compensated within 24 hours. The bank again deactivated and replaced the cards of a further group of customers who were potentially at risk of fraudulent domestic withdrawals. DBS has been replacing cards with an EMV chip, as part of a re-carding process that began in January, as the banks in Singapore seek to move to EMV chip technology by 2014. In response to a query on whether more ATMs could have been compromised, the spokesman said: 'Only if and when actual fraudulent withdrawals take place, and common patterns identified, can a bank conclude that skimming has taken place.' To minimise risk, it has rolled out measures including SMS alerts upon withdrawals and blocking overseas withdrawals. Separately, DBS said its managing director of compliance services and security, Jim Pasqurell, has tendered his resignation due to health issues but added that ongoing investigations will not be hampered by his departure. Mr Pasqurell, 62, will remain with the bank until end-May to ensure a smooth transition process.
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SMRT Board names NTUC deputy to lead probe Rubbish!
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What are the hip or popular English (or so-called 'Christian' names) for gen X, Y, Z nowadays?? no more WeiLiam, Lorbut, Leechurch, etc... or Mary, Jane, etc?? what are the common ones nowadays? More interestingly are those adopted by HongKongers, eg Apple, etc etc, all quite weird to me actually.......... btw, Winnie (more normal one) seem still very common in HK...
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Some cars not only have funny/odd-ball names, but they look odd also... Anyone remember the TownBee?.... a small K-car with tall windows...
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Like to confirm if the persons registering for a car can be different from that applying for a bank loan? That is, the car/COE is registered to person A but bank loan is by person B. Also like to know in detail what happens to the car/loan if the car is repossessed? Thank you.
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Top Chinese execs change names to Indian names to fit in
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NEW DELHI: Chetan Chen is into technology, Deepak Xu handles marketing, and Deepika Fang is a network systems pro. And when their company needs to reach out to the public, Rajeev Yao gets into the picture. Welcome to the charm offensive of Huawei India, a firm that is on the radars of the Indian security establishment by virtue of its place of incorporation, the People -
SINGAPORE: Singapore citizens who have yet to check their names in the Registers of Electors are advised to do so before next Monday. That is the last day for making claims and objections to rectify any errors in the Registers. The Elections Department said about 13,000 names have been checked as of Monday, since the registers opened for inspection on February 23. It has received 12 claims and two objections. Ninety-three applied to be restored as voters. There were also 619 applications for registration as overseas electors. Registration as overseas electors is ongoing. - CNA/yb source http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1041020/1/.html
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If I am not wrong, Malay names like Mohd, Noor and Abdul are actually a prefix right? So what is the proper way of addressing someone with a prefixed name? Must I say "Abdul xxxxxx" or is xxxxxx enough? And what is the meaning of these prefixes? Can anyone have them or is there some requirement?
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Got this from email, quite nice, so thinking of sharing it here. sorry if u have read it before Why Chinese shouldn't have Christian names: Ann Chang => Dirty (Mandarin) Ann Chin => Keep Quiet (Mandarin) Faye Chen => Dusty (Mandarin) Carl Cheng => Buttock (Hokkien) Monica Cheng => Touching your buttocks (Hokkien) Luce Leow => You are dead (Hokkien) Jane Tan => Frying eggs (Mandarin) Suzie Leow => Lose till death (Hokkien) Henry Mah => Hate your mum (Mandarin) Corrine Tai => Poor fellow (Hokkien) Paul Chan => Bankrupt (Mandarin) Nelson Tan => Bird laying eggs (Mandarin) Leslie Tong => Rubbish Bin (Mandarin) Carmen Teng => Leg hair long (Hokkien) Danny See => Squeeze you to death (Hokkien) Rosie Teng => Screws and nails (Hokkien) Pete Tsai => Nose droppings (Hokkien) Meicy Koh => Never die before (Cantonese)
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http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singapor...t.jsp?id=43023# Xiang zi = Smell like chicken ?
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Got this from an email... More added features of name... _________________________________________ Why Chinese shouldn't have Christian names: Anne Chang (Mandarin)-Dirty Anne Chin (Mandarin) - Keep quiet Faye Chen (Mandarin) - Dusty Carl Cheng (Hokkien) - Buttock Monica Cheng (Hokkien) - Touching your buttocks Lucy Leow (Hokkien) - You are dead Jane Tan (Mandarin) - Frying eggs Suzie Leow (Hokkien) - Lost till death Henry Mah (Mandarin) - Hate your mum Corrine Tai (Hokkien) - Poor fellow Paul Chan (Mandarin) - Bankrupt Nelson Tan (Mandarin) - Bird laying eggs Leslie Tong (Mandarin) - Rubbish bin Carmen Teng (Hokkien) - Leg hair long Connie Mah (Cantonese) - Call your mother Danny See (Hokkien) - Squeeze you to death Rosie Teng (Hokkien) - Screws and nails Pete Tsai (Hokkien) - Nose droppings Macy Koh (Cantonese) - Never die before
