A View of Singapore

Got the following paragraphs from a link http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A759738 on Starfearer's Sky:

"Singapore is artificial happiness on an island not bigger than an average city. It’s like in this computer game, Sim City, where you build a city from scratch by placing out industries, condos, shops and roads in the most functional and effective way as possible. There are no natural resources on Singapore: the very nice beaches on Sentosa island are 100% imported from Malaysia, the water all comes from a big pipeline from the main land and the nice looking forests you see everywhere are only a few meters deep. "

"However it takes a few days to get used to the way singaporeans speak english. Even if they write and speak english perfectly, they tend to use their own dialect called Singlish. It’s an effective and fast version of english with lots of the grammatics dropped and word order totally flipped:

“Eh, that Wendy ah, so glam one! Every week also got new dress!”

Don’t panic when singaporeans talk really fast, just ask tell them you didn’t understand (you talk slower can?) and they will switch to a more ordinary english. You’ll get used to it and it’s a fascinating and modern way of talking, although looked upon as slobby so don’t try impressing on business contacts with your new vocabulary. "