Leh

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It’s next week leh.

“After I got the degree, I told my dad that I’m going to do an MBA. He said, ‘Eh, no more money leh’. But I said, ‘It’s okay’.”

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Many houses were destroyed leh.

Thirty-five thousand jobs, leh. Not something to sneeze at.

Navigating gradients in high heels, she says with a giggle, is “no joke leh”. She is, however, more than adroit and willing to tackle more difficult courses, like blazing new trails for Singapore’s nascent space industry.

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You all damn noisy leh how to sleep?

We put all the poetry packets in a bag and let people rummage through it and pick one at random when they left the house. […] “Amazing leh, I can’t believe it was a random pick,” he texted me later, “This is better than ang pow!”

“They asked me to do the striptease. I said no,” confessed Bachelor #1. / “Why not? You’re from NDU leh,” I remarked, surprised that even someone from the Naval Diving Unit would be shy about showing his body.

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Still got risotto in the fridge leh.

“Today Friday leh, I want to go out!” they imagined Dr Tan thinking.

I just wanna have a lil dance to some tunes. Tomorrow still got work leh

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Close the door leh.

Hello Mr Chan — why alone? Where's the better half? Bring her next time eh.

Sing us a song, leh.

It feels like a cheap gimmick to attract environmentalist types, when I don’t see any concrete policies to address that. If you don’t care, then don’t pretend to care leh. If you care, then make sure you got details to back you up, can?

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— We can try taking the train. — I don’t think we’ll have enough time leh.

Singaporean poet Cyril Wong might have been one of the first home-grown writers to depict sexuality so frankly on the page, but on the occasion of his 16th poetry collection, he laments: “I’m not just a confessional writer leh.”

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I don’t think that’s accurate leh.

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In my opinion the crème brûlée was so-so only leh.

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I don’t have all day leh.

Lester did not want to tell me about his feelings for his friend or his reasons for not talking about this absence of labels because “It’s a very private topic leh”—a telling response in itself.