Hello / Halo (Singlish)
How locals say hello in Singapore
February–April (drier and slightly cooler)
Fines are strictly enforced — no chewing gum, no eating on the MRT, no littering. Singlish is an art form.
Ancient Malay texts describe a lion-sighting here around 1299 — prompting the name Singapura, Lion City in Sanskrit, though no lions ever lived there. Sir Stamford Raffles stepped ashore on February 6, 1819 and signed a treaty to establish a British trading post. Within five years the free port had 10,000 residents; within fifty years it was the busiest port east of Suez.
Singapore is the world's only island city-state and one of only three remaining city-states globally.
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