
Warning: Super long entry: 2,000+ words.I was just wondering to myself the other day ...Why, when visitors come to my house, they always address Mr. Cloudy (my dog) in English?How would they know that Cloudy is an angmoh dog?Yeah I know he is white and whatever, but why do people speak to dogs in English baby talk?If you ask me, Cloudy is a tu sheng tu zhang de (homegrown) SINGAPORE DOG. Go on, speak to him in Singlish, he understands. For instance, when he stands on his hindlegs to look at us eating and scratching my beautiful leg in the process, my brother and I will shout at him,"Oei, you siao ah?And he will quietly and politely reside to some distance from dinner table where he will wag his tail benignly while utilising his puppy eyes...