We don’t just use the internet…
Sun, 28 May 2006, 11:32 pm by jadeite…Singaporeans use graffiti too!
Found this on a electrical box at a traffic light in Ang Mo Kio. Singaporeans are speaking up - although you might want to use another way, wait police catch you for vandalising public areas then you know.
Text: “Jobs for foreigners, N.S. for S’poreans. Elite pianist get fine only!! 1 country, 2 system! Majullah (sic) Singapura!”
Obviously referring to The Case of the Runaway Pianist, where pianist Melvyn Tan was fined $5000 for evading conscription and running away to Britain to pursue his musical education rather than let National Service derail his ambition.
It was a nice coincidence that I saw this after making that post about Ike See recently, and I couldn’t resist snapping a picture with my phone camera. These things are very handy.
I just thought it was interesting that people are making this sort of statement with graffiti, and it’s definitely a great step up from “HOT SEX CALL 9xxx-xxxx!” written on bus seats and toilet walls.
Then I walked on and the next graffiti I saw said “Vaginas suck, cocks rule.”
Oh well.
At least I felt gratified for all of five minutes.
should be majullah (sic) singapura leh.
Yeah I spotted that but wasn’t sure if i should include the (sic). Haha. Okay I’ll sic it! :P
what does sis mean? :x
‘Sic’, not sis. It refers to a spelling error that the writer made; when I quote the writer, I’m making it known that while I’m reproducing the text exactly as the writer put it down, I’m also informing the reader that there are also spelling mistakes in the text. Something like that.
Seems like graffiti artists(?) are getting less apathetic nowadays. There’s hope for the future! :)
I note that it is as easy to sabotage your friends by scrawling their mobile number there instead. I might try it one day with the mobile numbers on all those nuisansical stickers pasted on my doorbell by those locksmiths.
You never know when you’ll need a locksmith :D
Oh dear, that was so irrelevant.
Irrelevant but true!