http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl1KTil-ZHM

I was suprised by this tv show in Singapore...its all in english
sorta reminds me of the sosyaleras we have in the Philippines

Singapore's first language is English, and they have insanely hard English curriculum for high school students. I'm pretty sure average high school graduates from Singapore have better technical writing skills compared to US high school graduates.

oic.. me thought their first language was Chinese

famous singlish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish

still, some employers may look for Chinese speaking people.

so one may have better opportunities as a bilingual.

Sometime its easyer to express their feeling in there own language.But your right english everybody can read or understand.what about ask them what is that mean you never know you’ll learn some new.
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the use of english keeps things fair cuz it's seen as a neutral language.

if the government showed favoritism towards chinese, the malaysians and indians would feel alienated.

is this chick teochew?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkFs-YeYvU

i've been told that out of all the chinese ppl in singapore, teochews speak the best english

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFOwfEk4rw

nia mah kai chan chuah

^ Le gong xia ?

Miss Singapore World trying to force herself to speak english
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36g6HDNT9L0

Yea, it's a pretty huge disgrace. Not only she fails in her speech, she's a credit card fraud too.

Malays and Tamils you mean. Malays and Tamils(dominant ethno-linguistic Indian group in Singapore) have been around Singapore since the earliest days of its history and were part of the nation building process.

singapore, like hongkong, was a british colony. that's probably why they speak english.

Although Chinese are majority, not all Singaporean are Chinese. There are many Indians and Malays.
Maybe they speak in their own origin languages in their community, but when they speak with other race, they need neutral language.

Singapore was a British colony, but actually Singapore was a state in Malaysia federation.

The first language in Malaysia is Malay. If Singaporean use English as first language, maybe that because majority of them are Chinese, but there are Malays and Indians in significant number.

I say "maybe" because I am not Singaporean.