SingFling

Take a listen to Singapore’s Mr. Brown Show on Singlish.  Mr. Brown is a popular Singaporean blogger/podcaster.

This Wikipedia entry is so thorough – I should have read it earlier lah.  Look at link, can?

Singlish

Wikipedia’s definition: The vocabulary of Singlish consists of words originating from English, Malay (mainly Bahasa Melayu rather than Indonesian), Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and to a lesser extent various other European, Indic and Sinitic languages, while Singlish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese. Also, elements of American and Australian slang have come through from imported television series. Recently, due to the fact that Mandarin is taught to most Singaporean Chinese students in school, Mandarin words have also found their way into Singlish.