Monday, July 28, 2008

Hokkien-spewing Government Officials

Recently, just last week in fact, i went to St James for a night's out with the boys. It was meant to be a fun night but it was all spoilt by endless sms-ing and a 'routine check' by the CID.
It all happened when the evergreen William Scorpion was singing and then the lights slowly came on. Royston said that the speaker system was defective and got chided by us for being dumb. Scorpion then affirmed our fears.

All of a sudden, this asshole came up to me while i was innocently sipping away on my green tea (i was driving that night) and flashed his smelly wallet with his warrant card at me.

He croaked,"CID. Kia, chuk ke! (CID, let's go out)." Well if it was a blonde bombshell i'll be flattered but it was a pre-PMS man. "Teng Ki gia lai. (give me your IC)"
"Sorry i do not understand what you are talking about," i replied nonchalantly. Of which he repeated that he needed my IC in English. Giving it to him, i told him not to lose it.

The whole saga carried on with us, my table of friends, and a lot more other female-companions-deprived guys herded out to the courtyard by the cops. And they treated us like we were guilty! WHAT happened to the innocent-until-proven-guilty judicial system we have in Singapore? The cops continued barking in Hokkien like their lives depended on it.

There was this particular bespectacled idiot with his backpack on like he was going to school who was the most irritating. He asked Alvin if he had been enlisted before before but it sounded like he was asking if Alvin had been working in a bank before. Lol.

"Aye, cho guey BANK bo?" asked ASS.
"Zhey gak cho bank si mi guan hey? (What has this gotta do with working in a bank)"asked Alvin.


There was this cop who was more polite. After i told him I am a civil servant he started to treat me better. I believed he treated me better when i told him i am a Commissioned Officer and the guys were my specialists. Should have told it straight to their face up front.

Why is it that when the govt is spending our taxpayers' money on promoting Speak Good English and Mandarin Campaign, our govt officials are using Hokkien as their main form of verbal communication? Don't give me the crap that they think all paikias speak Hokkien. They should have talked to me nicely first ok. I'm willing to cooperate but these cops treated us rudely.
In any case, night spoilt by idiots.


Well, it will be a different story if it was like this!