Originally posted by angel7030:
Oh, let me try,Long ago, in Singapore, when peoples were very poor, there were no jobs other than those hard labour for men and farming for women, even that also hard to find. So, as daughters of that time, unlike today gals like me everything also bo chap, they are mostly very filial piety to parents, they wanted to help their parents in coping up with the family foods and daily expenses, so they went out to work, most work as flower sellers, papaya sellers, match stick sellers, cigarette sellers, sweet sour prune sellers etc etc...and also durian sellers.
They will roam the streets selling their stuffs, so for those selling flowers, peoples will just call, Ah Hua(flower) come here! then those selling durian, peoples will just call, Ah Lian!! come here! selling sour prune was called as Ah Mei, and so on. That was how these nick names arrived. However, pedalling along the street, these gals learned to be streetsmart, they need to be more rough and strong in character in order to survive, so in a long run, people look at them as not ladylike, very rough and talk loud.
That bring us to today, whenever any lady act rough or do not have a ladylike in them, most people label them as Ah Lian, Ah Hua, Ah Mei etc etc...Hope u understand now.
Angel
Historian
former ah Mei
Thank you very much for the thorough explanation. Is this saying only a Singapore saying ? Is it also used in Macao, Hong Kong an China ? Is it cantonese or manderin ? Thanks again
Originally posted by Gary oak77:Thank you very much for the thorough explanation. Is this saying only a Singapore saying ? Is it also used in Macao, Hong Kong an China ? Is it cantonese or manderin ? Thanks again
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Ah lian= Female punk/gangster/gangster wannabe.
It's a hokkien slang.
And probably only Singaporeans will be able to understand this term.
do u smile? r u approachable in reality? r u helpful or sincere? do u talk cock and sing song, crack jokes like the rest? most importantly, r u mixing the right group of frens?
being yourself is only natural, but if u want more frens....u need to apply some marketing concepts and make them feel important...humans, especially women, loved attention..
Originally posted by littlemissbonkers:-.-
Ah lian= Female punk/gangster/gangster wannabe.
It's a hokkien slang.
And probably only Singaporeans will be able to understand this term.
thank you very much.
Originally posted by parn:
I don't understand this part where you claimed you allowed your dressing to go down to ah lian standard and insisted you're not ah lian?How would you know that if you're not a GUY???
Did I just SEXPOSED you?
Let us know if you're a guy and you just want to know how to have more girl friends or have a close friend who is a girl.
is female la deh
TS,
1) Tell you sis, better take care of her health and try not to end her life. Tell her you (your sis) still have 2 young kids, what happen to the kids if you (your sis) die? Who going to take care of the kids? I bet your sis hubby will dump her to your house!
2) Find a job, a permanent job :
a) Lighten the work load from your parents (I am sure they are not young (I mean 50s) anymore. The older, the more frail.
b) Take up night classes from there on.
c) When you take night class, you wil eventually have night class friends. (from my experiences: I do take night class and during that period of time, I do meet up with them to do projects, go to library, go to pub, etc).
3) For your bro, you really cannot do much on him since he already have a job and maybe you can give him hints to give some allowances to your parents.
Good luck dear.
Originally posted by likeyou:TS,
c) When you take night class, you wil eventually have night class friends. (from my experiences: I do take night class and during that period of time, I do meet up with them to do projects, go to library, go to pub, etc).
go pub do project??? no wonder your group always get grade "C" =Can do