DSA 2011

[Interested]

ngbrdad:

Maybe a good idea that we teach the kids some dialect so that they don't forget their roots.

After PSLE is a good idea.

Anyway think we have gone OT really big time already in last few pages LOL.

:yikes: all these words...

[verykiasu2010]

all because I suggested checking on Hokkien dictionary .... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :evil: :evil:


garang, not = guru

[vlim]

Maybe got to check wit h people who speak Hainan dialect .... It might mean very differently ...

[MandyMummy]

Actually, it is a good idea to teach them these words lah, so they will know when people are praising or scolding them. They only know the really vulgar ones :yikes:

Must also teach them enough to order from some old uncles/aunties in hawker centres too.

[Strparent]

Zann:

chamonix:

[quote=\"firefly38\"]

strparent, what is \"haotai\" uh? does not sound like a very nice word to describe the GEPpers leh.. :roll:

My hubby said \"haotai\" = \"haolian\".

My hokkien dh also say the same thing. But I thot there is a difference. \"haotai\" mean \"act smart\" and \"haolian\" mean \"show off\". No? [/quote]Hi firefly38,

I did not mean 'stupid' at all ! How could I ? These kids are special, fast learners. Sometimes I am impressed by DS and his classmates last year during projects and tests - they put effort , but NOT that much effort, and the results was astounding. I remembered they participated in some CMPS competition, and spent so much time joking and laughing, and boy/girl relationship ( yes, at P5 ! ), and yet emerge national winners, and got to go to USA for the international version.

Back to the 'haotai', yes Zann and chamonix got what I was trying to convey. A little like act smart, or act too smart, or think too highly of themselves ? There is a thin line between confidence and conceit. :evil:

My mum still used those terms, so my kids actually understand hokkien very well, even my DD at P5 understands and speaks Hokkien to her grandmother some times. But as times changed, and we consumed more potatoes, most children now do not speak even their own dialects. My DS always get asked what he means, when he inadvertably blurts out a traditional term or phrase in dialect ( either Hokkien, Cantonese eor Hainanese ) :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

firefly38, pls do not divulge my age :nailbite: :nailbite: . I was at RJC when they were still at Paterson Road, so .....quite a long time laio :sad:

[verykiasu2010]

Strparent:

firefly38, pls do not divulge my age :nailbite: :nailbite: . I was at RJC when they were still at Paterson Road, so .....quite a long time laio :sad:

okay everyone, please keep the secret :rotflmao: if you re-tell to anyone, please remember to remind it is a secret :rotflmao: :rotflmao: the age thingy .....when RJC was still at Paterson Road, before Ghim Moh days ....

[Strparent]

walao, silang vk2010, :spank:


I just wanted to edit and delete that part of my post nia nia, you went to quote me :shock: :shock:

kena sabo wor.

btw, back then NJC was still more premium brand than RJC

[vlim]

Strparent:

walao, silang vk2010, :spank:

Here comes 2 uncles' fight ... :rotflmao: :siam: :siam:

[verykiasu2010]

vlim:

Strparent:

walao, silang vk2010, :spank:

Here comes 2 uncles' fight ... :rotflmao: :siam: :siam:

hey hey where got fight ? have funx3 lah ....

now fighting SIA on the website problem is more real lah

[yukilei]

verykiasu2010:

Strparent:

firefly38, pls do not divulge my age :nailbite: :nailbite: . I was at RJC when they were still at Paterson Road, so .....quite a long time laio :sad:

okay everyone, please keep the secret :rotflmao: if you re-tell to anyone, please remember to remind it is a secret :rotflmao: :rotflmao: the age thingy .....when RJC was still at Paterson Road, before Ghim Moh days ....

ok, ok, I won't tell anyone that RJC was temporarily housed at Paterson Road in 1982.... :rotflmao: :evil: