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Can find some common lingo... _Poem by Malaysian on Singapore's National Day -- which compared our two countries. Apparently it went viral..._ They have 3 K's - Kiasu, Kiasi, Kiabo We have 3 R's - Race, Religion, Royalty Their dollar is bigger, our houses are cheaper Our food is better, their food branding is better We go there to work, bargher...they come here to enjoy Our politics is sex videos, their politics is LKY's house They talk of uniting one nation, we talk of uniting one race We argue about religion, they argue about being diligent We fight over Jawi-khat, they jump & cut ahead We have the natural wealth, but why the hell are they richer? They value know-how, we worship know-WHO They shake leaders' hands, we kiss leaders' hands They go by meritocracy We cari jalan with cable-tocracy Their clean means less corrupt Our clean means more "holy" 😅 They have LKY & LHL, we have Razak & Najib Both Father and Son, but different spirit So don't complain, when MYR & SGD are 3 to 1 We wanna charge them more for water, they say nevermind, can drink toilet water We call it Batu Putih, they call it Pedra Branca They want to expand, we say no give sand (but curi-curi maybe can) We have comedy king Harith They have comedy queen Kumar Our squash queen Nicol reigned long Their swim king Schooling reigned damp Majulah Singapura is original, Negaraku was copied Both in Malay language, but they don't understand what they're singing! We had MCO, EMCO, CMCO & RMCO They had CB, CCB & KNNBCCB 😅 We both claim chicken rice, but hello, it's actually from Hainan la Our country is bigger, their country is safer They nourish city trees, we butcher city trees They promote cycling, we promote highways We have cheaper cars, they have better transport We were one country, now we're different worlds, First and Third -- By Andrew Sia, Malaysian, 9 August, 2022