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In this first day, the following Singlish Expressions are gift for English learners:

Singlish Expressions and Their Standard English Equivalents

• Singlish : Why you never bring come?
  Standard English alternative : Why didn't you bring it?

• Singlish : He take go already.
  Standard English alternative : He has taken it with him.

• Singlish : Why he anyhow do things?
  Standard English alternative : Why does he do it this way? / Why doesn't he do it properly?

• Singlish : I cannot ownself do.
  Standard English alternative : I cannot do it myself.

• Singlish : I'll take for my ownself.
  Standard English alternative : I'll take it myself. / I'll help myself to it.

• Singlish : Want to rain, want to rain, never rain.
  Standard English alternative : It looked like it was going to rain, but it didn't.

• Singlish : You very clever to arrow people ah, ownself never do.
  Standard English alternative : Why don't you do it yourself, instead of passing the buck to others?

• Singlish : Why you always like that one?
  Standard English alternative : Why do you always react in such a way?

• Singlish : You don't anyhow say leh.
  Standard English alternative : You mustn't say baseless things. / You mustn't make baseless accusations. / What you say has no basis in fact.

• Singlish : I also can.
  Standard English alternative : I can do that, too.

• Singlish : He also never do his homework.
  Standard English alternative : He didn't do his homework, either./He hasn't done his homework, either.
  ("Also" & "too" are used for agreement on something positive, "either" is used for agreement on something negative; "never" means "did not ever"?it cannot be used to mean "didn't".)

• Singlish : Who say one?
  Standard English alternative : Who says so?

• Singlish : Like that also want to see.
  Standard English alternative : That's no big deal. / There's nothing much to see.

• Singlish : Don't worry, sure can one.
  Standard English alternative : Don't worry; it'll work.

• Singlish : So late already you still want to go ah?
  Standard English alternative : It's pretty late; are you sure you still want to go?

• Singlish : Last time we got different lecturer so the syllabus not same mah.
  Standard English alternative : We had a different lecturer previously, so the syllabus was not the same.

• Singlish : How come nobody tell us this exam is open book one?
  Standard English alternative : Why didn't anybody tell us this is an open book exam?

• Singlish : Don't say I never tell you we got test tomorrow.
  Standard English alternative : (You'd better take note) there is a test tomorrow.

• Singlish : Our drawing so simple how to score?
  Standard English alternative : How can we expect to get good marks with such a simple drawing?