DUMB MOMENTS AS FOREIGNERS LIVING IN SINGAPORE!
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DUMB MOMENTS AS FOREIGNERS LIVING IN SINGAPORE!
A little light hearted video for you today! Living as foreigners in Singapore, we've definitely experienced some embarrassing and dumb moments so we wanted to share some of those with you today! If you are also a foreigner in Singapore, tell us your dumb/embarrassing stories too! 🙈
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Where are you from? UK
Where do you live? Currently living in Singapore
How long have you lived in Singapore? 3 Years!
How old are you? 27
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Living in a new country means there's lots of mistakes to be made!! 🙈 Here's some of our embarrassing moments as foreigners living in Singapore! Be sure to LIKE this video if you enjoyed it as it really helps me out, and comment below and tell us your dumb/embarrassing moments too! 👍🏼
i thought you're like 23-24 not 27
Georgia Caney -mooooost embarassing moment was when I first moved here I was amazed why everywhere I go people are calling my name “Can”. My first encounter when I was in last seat on the bus and a new passenger asking something to the bus driver and he keeps repeating calling me “Can, can, can” and I go over to the driver and respond “Excuse me, are you calling me??? How’d you know my name?” And everyone are staring at me with their puzzled face til one foreigner explained what they are talking about and that its just a respond of the bus driver to passenger who’s asking to stop him over to a specific bus stop 😅😭
The “hor” part, need the right tone to sound right....
i love how u frame ur hair! video on that? (:
Singapore song
“Hor” is like “right” e.g. “ she is very hot and sexy hor?” And the “hor” part was really hilarious 😂
BestBro Gaming Lmao the interpreted meaning is so different. 😂 I didn’t thought of that man that was smart
paha in my accent haw and whore sounds the same but who knows!
Shafiqah Ramani omg completely irrelevent to this video/comment thread but sha!!! idk if you remember me but 33 !!!
HII! Comment on any of my videos and we can chat from there :D
I think hor may come from Cantonese.Sometimes, I use it too.Hor can mean a situation where u ask for approval from others of what u have just said.
That "hor" thing was unexpectedly hilarious.....we NEVER thought of it that way! I can't rattle off with a hor the same way again.
Hahaha! It makes me laugh every time!
Same.
Good thing I never made that a habit
Lmao they say so weird
Singlish is so uniquely Singapore. In my opinion these “add on” words like la...le...hor...seen to be a hidden or unexpected form of expression that create a more approachable, friendly type of communications.
Example, a guy is not too happy with another man in a shop, in proper English that guy could yelled
“Hey man, don’t do that!” It sounded very serious.
But if it was a Singaporean, he would have said..
“He bro, don’t like that le” immediately the whole communication would sound less threatening yet able to carries the message across.
Singapore is a melting pot for many different races, languages that includes many many sub dialects. Singlish was never taught in school but it can be heard everywhere and from any person. It had became a way of life here and serves it’s purpose well to bonds our social fabric and like I said before, its uniquely Singapore.
sam tay
I think it would sound more like “eh bro, don’t liddat lah”. It may sound informal and less threatening but at the same time it also sounds a little rude (I’m Singaporean) especially when you use singlish to talk to someone older or someone with a higher position than you.
Dude, what are you doing?
School essay?
Laura sounds like a true Singaporean when she said "HUH? Where? ORHHHHH" very hilarious hahaha
If she can good if she did a sort of prank call. Sounding like a local and see if the person on the other end belueves it. Then she can turn up at the shop as herself and sh8ck them lol
I found what Laura said about talking fast really funny cause many people I’ve met from other countries say I talk really fast and I do think we as Singaporeans speak really fast
I use that to leave the Oral examination room 10× faster.
Omg the trip excursion story was the best!! I thought you'd mention about wondering why every Singaporean is related because we call middle-aged people Uncle and Auntie.
Same thing happens in all parts of India, maybe a residual effect of the British colonial rule
Georgia, you are so integrated into Singaporean society, with your knowledge of Singlish! I think that's really cool!
thanks so much! :)
Ikea is E-kea as pronounced in Swedish. Singaporeans pronounce many words wrong but that one we got it right. Similarly we also pronounce Iraq correctly (E-raq) and not I-raq as how Americans pronounce them.
Most of my Singaporean friends pronounced it as I-kea though
isn’t it e-kay-uh
Who cares if singaporeans pronounce words wrong?
Wait does americans pronounce them as ai-raq?
We Asians know how to pronounce the letter A in both Asian and American pronunciations, 'aah' and 'ae' respectively. Many Americans only know how to say 'ae' but not 'aah'.
The "hor" part is just so hilarious! Amazing video by the way! :)
I literally LOL-ed at the "hor" part🤣🤣🤣Thanks for making my night Georgia!! Good night, have a good rest and have a great week ahead❤❤❤
DED WITH THE HOR HAHAHHAHA
Hor can also be used in the middle of the sentence and it serves a different function.
“Please hor... you can also be very difficult.”
In the example above, “please hor” has the same function as “look who’s talking”. And hor has a different tone in the middle than at the end of the sentence. It’s usually lower.
Thanks for explaining! 😁
I can't stop laughing🤣 when u mention the word "hor".......this is how uniquely Singapore is !
Great video idea, and love that you guys are willing to laugh at yourself! Do the video on the taxi uncles/ aunties hor.... 😊
HAHAHA I laughed out loud at the "hor" too. Love this video !
Yeah.... as a Singaporean... I would have mistaken Laura as below age 20 especially if you never really spoke to her.. but I think upon speaking.. should be apparent she is older.
Do a taxi Video, please......... Taxis are the only place where you can get political information baking hot
Haha yes maybe I will!
Georgia Caney by the way, can we have another life of an engineer 🙇🙇🙇
She wouldn’t even understand the taxi driver.
i’ve been living in singapore for 7 years now and can speak singlish fluently HAHA my parents always ask me to translate singlish for them and it’s super funny 😂
doné maingard I lived in Singapore for a year and I’m also very fluent in Singlish... it’s the best! So much more fun
Really ah?
Really meh
Can have your phone number?
@@personn1 same lmao
Love it! As usual content's getting more and more interesting
This video is hilarious! More stories please 😬
U so funny la, wah lau weh. I tell u hor, u really need make more video like tis. Thumbs up Ho Eh
OMG U GUYS ARE SO ADORKABLE ! HAHAHAH I am a Singaporean, and I do agree Singlish is such a unique way of talking ! But hey, we think it's more efficient than normal English hah! Hope you guys enjoyed the time here ! Cheers
Funny video! Especially the "hor" part. LOL!
Hey Georgia, I swear you made my morning today! I was in the midst of preparing for work and was just enjoying this video so much! It's hilarious and definitely made my morning better!💯🙆 You are so pretty as well!
So funny!!!! I haven’t laughed like this for ages! Thankyou ladies, for sharing your experiences.
enjoyed it! thanks la hor! =)
This is really neat to hear as a Singaporean! Cool stuff!
I moved to Singapore last year. In my very fast week I had a very funny experience.
Random person: you are very pretty
Me: thank you so much!
Random person: are you sing?
Me: no no unfortunately I can’t sing
Random person: no I meant are you sing?
Me: ( thinking to myself maybe Singaporeans refer to themselves as Sing as a short form or something) No I am not Singaporean
Random person: I am saying are you sing? Like balle balle sing
Finally realised he was asking if I am Singh aka panjabi!!!!
P.S I am not panjabi 🤦🏻♀️
I thought he was asking you if you were single 😂😅😅
@@jodie3950 Me too hahah
I went to Singapore for vacation and I had a similar experience when a lady in the elevator after knowing that I am a Singh, said, 'Oh Balle Balle'. Hahaha I think this is how they recognize Panjabis there.
I'm a singaporean and I could totally understand where the both of you are coming from!! It's definitely hard to mix in the singapore culture as most of the people here uses singlish ^^ Glad you guys have fun here and do your best to work things out despite the language barrier and accent :) Would love to see more of your videos !! Thanks for an amazing video :)) !
Both of you are so hilarious! Couldn’t stop laughing. It’s like that one ok ... lol.
ok, so the reason we always second guess angmohs age is because, apparently you guys look older than your age. so we check and check again. sorry. lol. we have to check.
Nurashikin A Rahim exactly. They think we can’t gauge people’s age. Fact is a 12 year old Caucasian looks like the equivalent of an 18 year old Asian living in Asia
Hi Georgia, so happy to find your channel. It is indeed a great joy to see your videos and also to know how foreigners felt about Singapore.
Yay welcome!! 😁
Georgia! I enjoyed this vlog u did 3yrs ago but it was my 1st time seeing it cos TH-cam pops it up on my feed haha. Really funny!
I wanted a sandwich and I thought, Im going to try this Singaporean bread maybe it will be nice, I arrived home prepared everything and the bread was green!, so that is how I met pandan bread...
For a moment when you guys said "hor", I really thought you said "whore"! I think "hor" only works when a legit Singaporeans says it...(or someone who can mimic our tone very accurately)
javinye626 i think it’s bc we don’t emphasise the “r” it’s just hoh? HAHAH
I had a British colleague who stayed here for years. Once, I said something to a Singaporean colleague and he asked me why I said. I repeated to him and he said, no, that's not what you said because I didn't understand anything earlier. So I had to recall and use the exact words. It's all English, yet in such a Singaporean way that he just didn't get it the first time. I had switched to "normal" English unconsciously when speaking to him. Hahaha.
Fancy this vid. Good one hor 😂🙌
Love this video's content!
you my friend, the “hor” part, I DIED. you earn a new subscriber! good job and keep up with your content 👍
this video is hilarious and i really love the hair scarves you've got going on in your past couple of videos
Never knew hor would be this funny but it sure is 😂🤣 Hope you are having a pleasant time in Singapore! 😂
OMG XD
As a Singaporean I genuinely enjoyed this video. How you were able to pick up our Singaporean slangs whereby we use both "lah" and "hor". Its amusing to see what foreigners think and hear of their experiences. I look forward to watching more of these. KEEP IT UP!! 😆😆
It was a long day after school and I was at a foodcourt. Bought my dinner and I sat at an empty table (or so I thought). There was an umbrella on a chair which I failed to notice. Only realized my mistake after people sat literally in front of me looking like they're about to punch me lol. And I'm Singaporean.
LOL!! This is one of the most entertaining culture shock I have ever viewed hor?!!!
Omg the “Hor” was hilarious 😂😂😂😂
georgia, your blouse is so CUTE!! 💜
I died so hard during the taxi uncles part, you make my day.
I'm 27 and I hop on to the bus in Scotland paying adult price for a ticket and the bus driver asked me why am I not paying for child ticket cause once I put the money in the box, he can't give me any change for the bus ticket. The age thing is the same for asian in western country. hahahaha. (FYI: child ticket is for age 5 to 15)
Amazingly hilarious with the 'hor'😂
omg the bus incident! something similar happened to me - it was early morning, i took some company's staff bus and ended up in an ulu industrial area 😶 but the driver was so nice to drive me back to jurong east
haha awrr that's good he dropped you back!
Georgia Caney the workers on the bus were giving me "what is this new kid doing on this staff bus" look ...
LOVE LOVE LOVE your scarf! Awesome pop of colour against your blouse! or, as one would say in Singlish, "Your scarf is very nice hor?" :P
New subscriber here :) love both of your personalities! It's interesting to know/hear of another perspective from a foreigner about our culture here
HAhaha after u mentioned the hor part, l've been laughing when my friends use it😂
This was a funny video! :)
hahaha the HOR makes me laugh hahahah!!!!! You guys are damn funny!!! hhahahah
Great to see both of you in this blog. Laura is really cute!
HAHAHAH this video made my day!
🤗
I remember this period of time when I had a colleague who is french and another colleague who has a super singaporean accent. It was like a chicken and duck talking to each other. Thankfully, I am a Singaporean who is fluent in English and Singlish. So i became the translater at meal times cos like you, my french colleague was lost in conversations.
Oh yeah and the first story about your friend getting on the wrong bus is friggin’ HILARIOUS! I can just imagine the expressions on their faces!
Super love your video! 😍
its funny when you are a singaporean watching this
and you've just gained a new subscriber
Hi Georgia, nice to see you made an Aussie mate in Singapore. My mum and uncle were born in Singapore as my grandparents were based there for several years.
I can't wait to spend time in Singapore as I am applying for a visa to teach English/learn Mandarin in China.
I love watching your vids, I learn so much, you're awesome.
Would be awesome to catch up when I come over.
Lots of love,
Zack.
LMAO watching this as a singaporean is hilarious
I really enjoyed this video, as a Singaporean myself I always wondered what is it like in the eye of a foreigner living in Singapore, and I have to say it sounds pretty interesting 😂
God! That was hilarious! Lol!!
The ‘hor’ part 😂
Loved this video! I have 2 different accents that I use. The first is my regular Singlish accent that I use daily in Singapore, and the 2nd is my "fake" English accent which I use when I speak to non-Asian English speakers. On one of my recent trips, I was chatting with a lady on the train from London to Leeds and using my fake English accent. Halfway through, my mom calls from Singapore and I switch to my regular accent. The lady was shocked! But she loved how different it was and requested for me to continue talking to her in Singlish for the rest of the journey. I taught her as much as I could, and as a Singaporean, it always makes me happy to see others enjoy this unique aspect of our tiny little country. Hope your time in Singapore was a good one and wish you a safe journey back!
Lol yeah personally I just prefer Singaporeans to speak in Singaporean accent rather than trying to do a British accent. It’s more natural and less forced. For example if i were to speak in a Singaporean accent it would sound really strange lol
Lolllllllllll this was so funnnnnnnnnny
I'm half Singapore/Australian, grew up as an expat so I used to have a Brit accent. Took my Canadian boyfriend to Singapore after New Year and had to explain EVERYTHING. Switching from a Singlish accent to Aussie for every little thing gets exhausting. But bloody hell, when my relatives talk to him and he had this blank "i know theyre speaking English but i have no idea what they mean" look on his face was absolutely hilarious.
Hahahha the “hor” makes me wanna LOL...
I died at the “hor” part 😂😂😂😂
+Georgia Caney, u are doin good so far here in Singapore! I am a Singaporean and I would love to be in your channel, probably teaching u Chinese or even a dialect! Haha!
i cracked up at the "hor" part ahahahhaa
the hor thing had me in stitches!!!! omg
OMG I LAUGHED OUT LOUDDDD at "HOR" AND "10 years old"
Singlish is such a unique language , I adore the Lah's Loh's and Hor's 😍😍 just add it to the end of your sentence and somehow they understand what you're saying
omg i’d rlly love to meet u in Singapore one day :)) do a meet& greet or something haha :D hope to see u in the streets one day!!!
p.s. i rlly enjoy your videos!!!!
You girls are actually so beautiful. I am stunned, never seen such gorgeous girls :0
So funny Hoh. 😂😂😂
Hope u both had a great stay in SG!
The ikea part was very entertaining. Especially the taxi driver accents. Loved it.
this was hilarious!! as a returning singaporean i find myself in some of these situations too, although i understand quite a bit of singlish. my strangest moments are definitely when salespeople would ask where i’m from, because both my english and chinese sound un-singaporean (i grew up in china in an international school, so my english is kinda american/western and my chinese is well, chinese.)
My Swedish friend says "AI-KEE" because to him IDEA is pronounced "AI-DEE".
you should read about neil humphrey's void deck experience when he first arrived in singapore
ok this unexpectly funnyy
great video haha
Singaporean here and this video is hilarious. Lol!!! 😂😂😂
i would take the 1 pound coin for 1 dollar SGD...
The excursion bus story is too funny
I live in Singapore and it was really funny watching this video😂
Totally can relate to this video! I remember when I thought “shiok” is “shocked” instead of “delicious”
I was at mcdonald’s and the mcnuggets adv said that the nuggets are “shiok”
I mean.... how could nuggets be shocked? 😂
It'd be so nice to meet you if I was in Singapore again, Georgia. I have relatives in Singapore and I'm actually from the UK too! I died at the ''Hor'' part LOOOL.
I’m almost 32 years old & I lot of people think I’m still a student, a couple of years ago when I started a new Job, I was working at night time & work colleagues were coming up to me asking ‘how was school today’, I’m like what?!, when I tell people my real age most are gobsmacked & stunned, the closest anyone has come to guessing my age is 25. I was looking at a old passport photo from 2005 the other month & I thought I still look the same as I did 13 years ago!.
“hor” is like “right?” in a way. like after adding “hor” at the sentence, one is asking for some sort of agreement
t. ys yup
Hey Its kitty i know. i’m not asking, i’m saying.
The most embarrassing words for me “Okay lah” 😂 and even they use already in most of their Singlish 😂
Wow! I must go USS more often... =P
yess! on that English money, i've even change from locals in English money, especially the 1 pound coin, it looks exactly the same!
I think the reason why they think you're so young is because of your height. Many Asians think of European adults as tall so if you're around 4’ 11” as you say, then it kind of messes with our assumptions and we assume you're kids at that height.
Yah maybe!!
Georgia you inspired me to make TH-cam videos!!!! I just moved here in Singapore
Georgia, I have a random question. At work, how many hours do you get for lunch break? Because I found it so cool that you're able to fit a lunchtime workout and eat your meal during lunch break!
*You two are gorgeous!* ❤👏❤🇸🇬