Ris Low vs Credit Card Fraud

Guilty of credit card fraud

By Dawn Tay

RECENTLY crowned Miss Singapore World Ris Low, 19, had earlier been found guilty of credit-card fraud.

The beauty queen was convicted of five charges of misappropriation, cheating using illegally obtained credit cards, and impersonating their users’ identities.

The first-time offender was sentenced in May this year to 24 months of supervised probation, said a Subordinate Courts spokesman in response to a query from my paper.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now that’s just damn funny. Sorry, babe. Can’t defend you on this one.

FAILED!

Ris Low vs Speaking Good English

Just back from blogging and I know I missed out on a lot of topics since MJ’s passing away.

Thanks to Ms Ris Low, I’m back to blog about this video interview…

Poor thing. The video captions really didn’t help. It just made it worse.

For what its worth, I’m sure it’s not Ms Low’s fault that her interview came out that way. Here’s what should’ve happened:

• She should have composed herself beforehand
• Her manager/coach/mentor should’ve known that one of her weaknesses is her english. So, why not just make her speak her mother tongue instead. That’s what translators are for.
• Someone should’ve prepared her for this interview.
• Singaporeans should just support her nonetheless. Her answers were not that stupid.

Ever watch “Lost In Translation?” That’s how I think it is. In Low’s mind, when she was coming up with her answers for the questions thrown at her, it’s all perfect in her mother tongue.  Translate it into english, and all things are screwed up. Even Google Translate is not that perfect.

Reminds me when I was new in Singapore. When I was about to knock off from the office, my colleague asked me “Going back?”. I said, “no.” Why should I go back? But turned out he meant “to go back home.”

When people here say “can?”, it’s like translating it to tagalog as “kaya?“

It’s one thing to speak good english. It’s another thing to speak english appropriately as in time and place.

So ease up on Ris Low. It’s not that you can’t understand her interview.