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Ji Ki Sio Hor Sua (一支小雨伞) or A Small Umbrella, is another very popular hokkien song to the hokkien community and I would like to share it with all my hokkien clans out there!

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krisandro said:

I had a very interesting encounter at AMK Hub a few weeks ago. I was on my way to the cinema at the 4th floor of the building and I choose to go up via the lift.

At the 1st floor lift lobby, a lift door opened and I promptly entered it to only realize that the lift was occupied and it was going DOWN. Within a space of a second, my STUPENDOUS mind decided that instead of walking out of the lift to wait for the next lift to go up, why not just stay in this lift till it goes up?

Right before the lift doors closed, a lao ah-ma (old grandmother, which hereby be known as LAM) entered the lift and mumbled a sentenced in Hokkien. Although my dialect is Hokkien, I have much trouble understanding it, much less speak it. Seeing that I am a gracious and considerate Singaporean, I decide to offer help.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "A funny entry showing that we are really losing knowledge of dialects"

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dreams323 said:

it was actually banned on channel u. keely of campus superstar was actually singing hokkien.

Recommended by at82: "Wow! Maybe she should release an hokkien album!"

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decoding galvin said ...

Here's yet another great Singaporean Ad, hokkien style! It's so good I feel like eating now. You gotta check it out.

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SYFC is at it again. It has a flash video talking about the Da Vinci Code movie. Comes in Singlish and Hokkien versions.

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Lancerlord said:

Blast this song when you are driving on the roads.

Recommended by jasperthedummy: "Very funny song, but yet tells you all about driving safely."

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decoding galvin said:

Have you ever had those mysterious missed calls? Unfamiliar number that keeps calling your phone sometime right in the middle of the night? Well, I used to have such calls back then when I was using my 016 number. I tell you, those missed calls are irritating! Sometimes I don’t whether to call back or not. And when I do call back, the person on the other side of the phone will claim that he never call at all. Well, atleast that person sounded sincere to me…so I couldn’t be totally pissed with him/her. So what can I do..ignore it?

Recommended by galvintan: "This is simply hilarious how some choa ah beng swears! Click on the audio image to listen. But do becareful, this audio is not safe for work."

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decoding galvin said:

A week ago I posted an entry about a hokkien song that I’ve been looking high and low. Thanks to Terence Goh, I managed to get the song and converted it into mp3 format. The title of the hokkien song is “Ji Pa Ban“. Sing along if you want to…

Nah sih gua uh ji pa ban, ji pa ban, Gua uh ji pa ban, jit si lang tio khin san

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The Yodelling Wanker tells us the various uses of the names for parts of the female anatomy:

Unlike the male counterparts who have more peripherals and hence more diverse expressions for it, the usage of Cheeb** as an expression is rather limited. Cheeb** is often used to described a situation of frustration and irritation.

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vin said:

That was not the highlight of the day though. This new guy, a Kenyan, named Malek could actually speak Hokkien. And not just Hokkien. He sounded distinctively Singaporean with a Singlish accent. How cool is that?

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Wa Si Hokkien Lang continues to blog about his life... in Hokkien:

Limpeh jin tulan. Offit lai sar eh new worker. Ko si university graduate ler! Niameh. Pik giap liao First Class Honours! Tapi kio yi zhor kang, yi lang simik lan ciao mah beh hiao. Nabeh. Jip pai eh hao seh kia sa ma eh hiao thak chek beh hiao zhor kang ah?

Kio yi Format Computer yi mah complain. Kio yi Install Software yi mah complain. Kio yi Install Hardware yi mah complain. Aih. Kio yi ki si hor lah.

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