Classic Conversation with the Taxi Driver“Good morning uncle to Parkview Square Northbridge Road please”
“Parkview Square, lah? Take ECP?”
(head nodding) “Mmm, Parkview Square. Not ECP. We need to go to Kallang”
(Turns taxi around and starts heading to Kallang. I am busy looking in my bag for my mobile which I have left again at home for the millionth time)
“Parkview Square?”
“Yes Uncle, Parkview Square across from Raffles Hospital on Northbridge Road”
“Ah”
(I have officially left my mobile phone and taking out my book to read since traffic is slow)
“So you want to go to Raffles Hospital?”
“ No Uncle, Parkview Square across from Raffles Hospital”
“Ah, Parkview Square. I hear Far East Square”
“No, Pack View Skweh” (You think after 8 months I learn how to pronounce it right!)
“Ah, Pack View”
Finally, we got it.
Yes, that’s where I go to work. Pack View Skweh
