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#87 “Lah”

Posted August 6th, 2008 by Shaun · 14 Comments

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After quite a long time away, Shaun’s back with a vengeance! In the vein of Peter’s Aiya! (#80) post comes another Asian colloquialism – known as the “Lah” particle.

This term “Lah” can most commonly be heard in South-East Asia, especially by (but not totally restricted to) Singaporeans, Malaysians and Indonesians. Having said that, people in […]

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#85 Arranged Marriages

Posted July 31st, 2008 by Peter · 4 Comments

Here’s the second installment of “Korean Moms Week” from Stuff Korean Moms Like. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as many of SAPL’s other readers have. We proudly present Chiyo’s “Arranged Marriages” post (originally titled: Marrying People Off).

They love this. If you are between the ages of 24-40 and you’re unmarried, your […]

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#84 Child Labor

Posted July 29th, 2008 by Peter · 4 Comments

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The last few days have been pretty busy here at Stuff Asian People Like. We’ll have a new post ready every two days due to the “banking” that we’ve been doing. One of our loyal readers has suggested a Korean Moms type feature because we haven’t been covering enough “korean content.” Due to popular request, […]

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