Life’s So Like Dat

Author: David Leo
Publisher: Ethos Publishing

Honestly, this isn’t the book you’d want to be caught reading when you are pretending to look intellectual. Yet if you drop the act, you’ll find David Leo’s off ering speaks volumes about our life in Singapore.

Life’s So Like Dat is a collection of familiar Singaporean articles ranging from the entertaining definition of an Ah Beng to the time of Singapore Idol.

Filled with authentic Singaporean terminologies, you’ll become well versed in phrases such as “chinese helicopter”and “half past six”. There’s even a large glossary of Singlish (an interlanguage native to Singapore) that one can attempt to master upon finishing the book. With National Day around the corner, this might just be what you need to whip up nostalgia and patriotism.