this is rather amusing. colin goh on the 38 traits that identify you as a singaporean, which i found inside the ndp booklet

1. tks 2 sms, u oso dunno how 2 spel n e mor.
2. at lunch you start discussing what to eat for dinner
3. when speaking to foreigners you somehow feel a need to adopt an accent.
4. you are forever talking about businesses you want to set up but will probably never get around to starting.
5. you don't know many of the people attending your wedding.
6. you separate food into two basic groups: heaty and cooling
7. you marry for the real estate breaks.
8. you move to where you want your child to go to school
9. you force you r children to take speech and drama classes, but pray they won't wind up in arts stream later on.
10. if you are a guy, whenever you get together with your guy friends, you invariably trade army stories
11. if you're a girl, whenever you get together with your girlfriends, you trade stories abt how your stupid guy friends are forever trading army stories
12. you've eaten more times at the esplanade than you've actually seen shows there
13. you meet in hotels a lot
14. you work at mcdonalds when you are old rather than young
15. you ask for the bill by miming a signing movement
16. you have started calling foreign employees "talent" instead of "expatriate"
17. you take down the license plate numbers of cars involved in accidents
18. you think your boyfriend doesn't really love you unless he gives you part of his liver
19. you think the most important sporting event in singapore this year was david beckham switching from manchester to real madrid.
20. you need campaigns to tell you how to be courteous, to flush toilets, have sex, etc
21. you suddenly realise you're very interested in biotech - just like you realised three years ago you were very interested in e-commerce, and before that, engineering, and before that, medicine and law.
22. you think being an entrepreneur is setting up a bubble tea/portugese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop right next to an existing bubble tea/portugese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop
23. you'll gladly spend $70000 on a car but will go to great lengths to save a few bucks on ERP or even a few cents on a parking coupon
24. if you're pregnant you have the strange ability to make people on the mrt fall asleep instantly
25. you are very forthright with youur criticism of the gahmen. unless there's a chance they might actually hear you
26. during sales, you book hotel rooms near malls to enable you to shop more efficiently
27. when you explain things to people, you keep (a) using letters of the alphabet, and (b) speaking in point form.
28. you believe you can generate creativity through rules and committees.
29. you diligent track the whereabout of your favourite hawkers i.e. you know that the famous tiong bahru pau is now in jurong, the outram char kway teow is now in hong lim centre...
30. you think people are inconsiderate when they don't leave their table immediately eating at the food court but think you have every right to take 25 bites to finish the last red bean in your ice kachang
31. your children have a rudimentary knowledge of tagalog or bahasa indonesia
32. your mother probably can't speak your mother tongue
33. you secretly find that the best part of the speak good english movement is hearing the singlish bits in the ads.
34. you wish your constituency is in a "walkover" ward, because otherwise it's damn leceh.
34.you decide there is no credible opposition even though you don't know the name of the opposition candidate in your constituency.
36. you think having a constitution is like the condition you get when you dont' eat enough fibre.
37. you have an automatic sensor in your head which categorises people you meet into cosmopolitan/heartlander, stayer/quitter, normal/express/gifted, etc
38. you're never completely sure how many times you're singing the second verse of the national anthem