yes i think purple light is a recent song brought into the army....
Gordonator
Originally posted by nanren4ever:
Very nice man..Pity can't say the same about a few of the PTIs in Maju camp though.
no leh. the bunch of PTIs currently in charge of NSmen RT are very nice.
blitzonic
>>never heard of the hokkien one though<<
For sure? That one was very famous, with many differing verses. During my time, a lot of non-dialect speakers used it as a primer to understanding the language. Very poetic too, depicting the trials of NS from the Hokkien peng's viewpoint. I first heard it while in primary school, which was in the '70s.
Found one version of it online, supposedly from Jack Neo:
june 23 is a bad day (lak gay dee sar see pai lit ji) it's also my entry into army (ar see sio dee eh lip peng see) early morning must take taxi (chit jar puay char ai zey tek see) in the end i must get to CMPB (kao beh ai lai kao CMPB)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
well i've reached CMPB (tung wa lao gao CMPB) the officer kept my red IC (peng tao siew ki ang teng ki) asked me go inside to check body (kio wa lik kee cek bor lee) and then sent me to ITD (lian ow sung wa ki ITD ah)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
ITD are 3-storied buildings (ITD si sar lao chu) it is also my bungalow (ah si sio di eh chia hong chu) has an iron steel bed and a metal locker (wu gung bin chng ka ti du) army shirt and army pants all have (peng sar peng kor long zong wu ah)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
black black two stripes call corporal (or or neng diow kio corporal) black black three stripes call sergeant (or or sar diow kio sarzen) black black three stripes plus a crab (or or sar diow keh ji jiak zim) that one is called CSM (hi dey gio zho CSM ah)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
sergeant if he throws a fit (sar zen na see huat ti ki) up stairs, down stairs, run until you die (lao teng lao ka jao hor li see) no 3 and no 4 (dum ber three ka dum ber fore) for no good reason, change and change (bo tai bo ji wa lai wa kee)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
morning must training until at night (tee gng dio training kao um mee) dig trench, drill and SOC (zng kung char chow SOC) most jia lat is run 5 kilometers (siong dey jia lat see chow gor kong lee) sometimes still must carry casualty (wu see go dio gng cash oh tee ah)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
serve army must always iron clothes (zho peng dit dit tung sar kor) serve army 2 days iron 6 pants (zho peng neng dit tung lak kor) serve army 3 days iron 9 pants (zho peng sar dit tung gow kor) at most ease, minus a pair (sio key kio guay giam jit kor)
ai yo ai yo ai ai yo ai yo ai yo ai ai yo
serve army 1 day earn 3 dollar (zho peng jit dit tung sar kor) serve army 2 days earn 6 dollars (zho peng neng dit tung lak kor) serve army 3 days earn 9 dollars (zho peng sar dit tung gow kor) want to call chicken (visit prostituite) short of 1 dollar (sio bey kio guay giam jit kor)