This Old Lady Is As Multi Cultural As Singapore

[@kirtirajwekar2756]

That's my grandmother and I am so, so proud of her. I hope I can be like her when I'm older. Love you Attah

[@Cathisbaking]

Kirti Rajwekar , blessings blessings! She has a heart of gold

[@kirtirajwekar2756]

@@Cathisbaking Thank you so much! That is very sweet of you!

[@IsSheRG710]

your grandmother is amazing. More blessings to you and your family!

[@kirtirajwekar2756]

@@IsSheRG710 Thank you so much!!!

[@iAxianguy]

A true pioneer 😊👍

[@mikezen99]

This lady puts everyone to shame. Her fluency of language is awesome and as a 2nd generation Tamil-Chinese, I can’t even speak the language anywhere like her! She has a heart of gold. She is so engrossing that I watched the clip 5 times. She makes Singapore proud. Can we have more of her videos narrating about the old Singapore.

[@supesta]

❤️

[@deckerdryges5526]

My mom is Chinese but speaks Tamil, Bahasa Melayu fluently as well as Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin. A proud son 😁

[@chombiehello3515]

take a video please

[@supremeleader8796]

Do u speak the same number of languages?

[@alexia9415]

My grandparents and parents speak Malay, Chinese, and all the Chinese dialects too :) such a pity we aren't like the older generation.

[@scorpio573]

Bless this auntie Rose. What a nice world it would be if everyone is like her.

[@tanned06]

Those days are gone - we were poor but we were happy; everyone cared for each other and celebrated festivals together regardless of race and religion.

[@vvolf6179]

everytime I hear and see comments of " those days are gone" feel very sad indeed...

[@raqalglaser6113]

Now it's all money ..money ..money .. the world is different and cruel.

[@oliverchua9211]

Ya. Bless you auntie Rose. I used to lived in too payoh in the 70s. You reminded me of the good old innocent days we had malay, indian neighbour where we know each other. We go borrow sugar or oil when we ran out from each other. I remember my going learning to cook curry from our Indian neighbours. When it rain you will hear people shouting for each other to quickly keep their clothes. Our simple but good old days.

[@chombiehello3515]

our old good times

[@WinterScorpio]

She reminded me of my cantonese grandma. She too can speak mandrian, cantonese, haninese, teochew, hokkien, tamil, Malay and was learning to speak English. The whole block knew her and she knows everyone. The gate was seldom lock as there are some ladies always going and coming to visit. I missed her and I missed the olden days when all doors are open and a friendly smile is awaiting to greet you.

[@supremeleader8796]

Walao so many languages, steady la your grandma

[@Aki-yn4pg]

She has a flair for languages! Full of positive vibes, Auntie Rose ❤️

[@RahimRahmat]

Her language skills are really legendary. She definitely has great abilities. Respect to Mdm Rose.....

[@manithangavalu7885]

Mdm Rose🌹, you're a precious Gem! You're a proud CHINDIAN. Wow your fluency in the local languages is flawless. You're a POLYGLOT. Hope you pass on knowledge to your children and grandchildren. They will keep your LEGACY ALIVE, JUST LIKE YOUR PROUD PARENTS DID THROUGH THE GENERATIONS.🌺🌻❤️🌹🌺💛💚💖💜🌺💜

[@WTiDeadlyfury]

I though i know as many languages as her but turns out i was reading the subtitles

[@TheRoyalSingapore]

lol, we will let our transcribing writer know!

[@wateversg]

This brings so much joy and envy at the same time, Times were hard but what they had was the epitome of a multi racial community where people get along and genuinely cared for one another.

[@nanayue5388]

Our pioneers really led a hard life...glad our govt appreciate them and regard them as Pioneer Generation. Kudos!

[@vvolf6179]

Aunty Rose, Like your thinking all happy and all same same WE ARE ALL SINGAPOREAN. Yes! YOU ARE A GREAT INSPIRATION TO ALL. THANK YOU!

[@phyllismaness2332]

Aunty is a beautiful person, inside and out. God bless her and her family. May we all strive to help one another in this world.

[@silverbells4732]

it always comes back to togetherness as a big family.... the derogatory keling is still being.used by certain racist malaysians...I nvr tire of educating my pupils not to use such words....this still happens bcoz of wrongful parenting.... Aunty Rose is a true gem to d nation of singapore....

[@chombiehello3515]

keling is a term for indians from india from the olden days.It's a place called kalinganagar.In singapore too the term "keling" is used.Indian migratory pattern shows.Maybe they did not understand why indians were called "keling".I was offended too.Hope this will explain to all non indians .

[@faizramadan9352]

@@chombiehello3515 true

[@chinchang5117]

@@chombiehello3515 The Teochew and Hokkien will call Malays "Huan Kia" and Indians are "Cake Lengs". If u think it is degotatary, it is just a figment of yr imagination.

[@ganh222]

@@chinchang5117 cake lengs? Why so?

[@chinchang5117]

@@ganh222 Lengs, in Teochew, means dragons. Cake, in Teochew, means jade. But I dun really know y Indians are refer to as Jade Dragons.

[@anthonyvai8173]

It is video like this that makes me feel like home and proud to be a fellow Singaporean!! Great video!

[@TheRoyalSingapore]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnnytay6099]

Amazing Auntie! She is a model Singaporean!

[@krisnanstravelvlogscomings3893]

She is the best grandma I wished she is my grandmother whom I can learnt a lot of languages from her

[@horriblehector8595]

I love Auntie Rose. She is a beautiful soul and a true legend.

[@jenniferjialinxo]

I LOVE HER! Please protect her at all costs :'))

[@georgelanna9620]

Jennifer. How are you doing today today?

[@mahariahad7340]

Sooo nice i am speechless love you aunty rose

[@AnggrainiRustam]

Stay healthy and happy grandma! I just love how she feels that all people are family, i feel she's my grandma too! She remind me of my late Emak (grandma), she's a nice lady like this grandma.. I miss her :')

[@georgelanna9620]

Your beauty really got my attention, I couldn't pass by without saying hey

[@Dave-xh7up]

Aunty Rose may God bless you with good health. Love you 💕💕💕👍👍👍

[@Phoenix-gd4xw]

So heartening to see such harmony. So so important in today's divided world. ❤️💋

[@sunomiya9507]

Thanks for sharing 👍 She is a great example for Singaporean s!! I can't see what is the reason for Thumbs Down????

[@owlcam315]

Hello Miss Kirti, u & your family r so Bless to have such a wonderful Grandmother. No need to have a rich Grandmother to be Happy in life. She should be voted as d most True & Blue Singaporean. Wonder is there another more happy & lively Grandmother around who can speak as many languages & dialects! Our Leaders should learn what is real kampong spirits from your Grandma

[@visming]

Awesome! This is the beauty of Singapore.

[@fantasticzz4518]

Singaporean working & living in US for the last few years. You take for granted the racial harmony or what it takes to foster that harmony in Singapore until u see what intentional divisiveness does to a country. Be thankful for the leadership we have. Can’t wait to go back home.

[@RahimRahmat]

Leadership...... Our dear leadership took 30 years to foster the Singaporean identity. Then a new batch of leaders decided it was a good idea to bring on as MANY foreigners as possible so that the Singaporean identity ended up becoming diluted. Now, there exists a bunch of people, living on our beloved island, who have no idea what being Singaporean means. Many of them don't WANT to even know. If we get lucky, MAYBE we can teach their kids this Singaporean identity. All this because some leaders decided it was a good idea to open the floodgates to foreigners...... Did you just ask us to be thankful to our leaders?? ESPECIALLY these new "leaders" ????

[@fantasticzz4518]

@@RahimRahmat will not argue over policies here... but that’s the exact kind of talk that made the US divisive... immigration will continue for most countries. This change is permanent... (btw b4 u say I am Chinese or not true Sg, I am not. I was born in Sg, not from China) ... peace... 🕊

[@RahimRahmat]

@@fantasticzz4518 I am not against immigration. I have no problem with anyone who wished to become a real Singaporean and adopt our identity, our ethos. That was NOT what I said in my previous comment. What I did say was there were many who don't even wish to know what it means to be Singaporean, yet here they are, with pink ICs ready to slap our faces with. THAT is on our dear leaders. One last thing, the United States do not have FORTY percent non-citizens living in their country.... WE do.... Still siding our dear leaders???

[@fantasticzz4518]

@@RahimRahmat yes, I do. Because I have seen what it does when u do not have leaders with conscience do.

[@RahimRahmat]

@@fantasticzz4518 Fair enough. It's your choice to believe (or not believe) in the good faith of our leaders. That's called democracy. I know many compare with what goes on in other countries and feel relieved that our leaders at least have some integrity. Guess you know which side of the coin I fall though.

[@maizanhamzah4941]

You realise that the way she speak follow the Chinese auntie style although she is indian. When she speak Tamil, she will shake her head. Sayang you auntie Rose 😁

[@anonymouseve]

You’ve wrong. She is HALF Indian. And half Chinese.

[@Jumpoable]

@Lionel Proctor Culturally, she's obviously Cantonese cuz she's a natural speaking her mother tongue. I mean, she chose not to do this interview in Tamil.

[@chumi05]

Our world will be a better place if we all have the same mindsets as Aunty Rose..No bigatory, sexism, racism etc but inclusive of all, only see rainbows in our eyes & we are all colours💪

[@suejmaryoung]

I enjoy watching Aunty Rose and I have watch this over and over many times. I really admire she can speak so many languages so well. I wish I can speak like that. All the very best to her.

[@mikolover1000]

There an indian cleaner working in MBS who speaks English, Malay, Tamil and extremely fluent Mandarin the granma reminds me of him

[@georgelanna9620]

Your beauty really got my attention, I couldn't pass by without saying hey

[@georgelanna9620]

Hi dear. That's awesome love that.

[@drandmrsng1374]

This lady is amazing! Bless your heart sister!

[@iamgangster]

I met one Malay machik that can speak fluent Hainanese. Amazing.

[@chombiehello3515]

get a video of him..let's revive old singapore lifestyle.

[@rkninrknin4610]

We singaporeans still have a lot to learn abt respecting each other race religion n not be bias abt peoples skin colour n name calling is not nice n its not cool either

[@PoojaRobbie]

We agree that it's important to promote understanding between different cultures. As a Chindian couple we enjoy learning about each others' customs

[@rkninrknin4610]

@@PoojaRobbie all this things start from the home n parents if parents have a habit of name calling or are racists most likely the child wld pick up the same habits n mindset there is so much the school or govt can do but the actual lessons start from home

[@jeangian1781]

Thank you for your video. This is really Uniquely Singaporean. Please produce more videos of Singaporeans & Singapore stories. Aunty Rose should be on national TV to promote SG. She is national pride.

[@nwj8875]

I salute this special & rare lady, who has a big heart 🤗🤗🤗 I wish the current generation have a little bit of heart & mentality like her. We need more people like this awesome lady in this mean & heartless world ....

[@ShashankChepurwar]

Inspiring, making our differences smaller is the way to live together happily. Singaporean cultural is an example worthy of following everywhere. Thanks for the reminder aunty 🌹

[@suzanawong2033]

She's so cute n wise... she reminds me of my mom

[@busymommy1522]

Long live Mdm Rose 🌹True blue Singaporean👍Thanks for sharing

[@ryannetan6547]

Super Mdm Rose!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Wish you forever happy and healthy!🙌

[@iAxianguy]

I am so impressed with her. Awesome!!!😀👍👏

[@ariamoon475]

She is amazing. God bless you!

[@calt03]

Muchos respect to the civilians who had to endure war... And she's a polyglot.. so endearing

[@share_accidental]

aunty rose is such an inspiration! i wonder how did her parents meet as mixed race people were so rare in her era...

[@aaronng88]

Amazing lady!

[@Divineeyereadings]

Dang I had a wait what double take moment. Her Cantonese and teochew is so on point! (My dad is of Teochow origin.) I love it how multicultural she is and she does it so well. While here I am speaking canto-English with a thick American accent. (And I’m 100% Chinese... though I was born and raised in America)

[@georgelanna9620]

Your beauty really got my attention, I couldn't pass by without saying hey

[@Divineeyereadings]

@@georgelanna9620 Hi. I am using the reface app so it is partially me but not completely me. I do it for partial anonymity. I'll let you guess which features are mine. But thank you though.

[@georgelanna9620]

@@Divineeyereadings wow. So how are you doing today Dear. Hope you are doing good.

[@georgelanna9620]

Hope you don't mind me too know more about you dear.

[@ChefTosen]

she speaks good Cantonese, good!

[@blueicebeat]

It’s her native tongue so yeh

[@Alvin_Vivian]

Way better than most Singaporeans hahaha.

[@yiming99]

@@blueicebeat her mother tongue literally as her mum is a Cantonese

[@HbbH38]

Aunty Rose, you look really really good for your age. Love your energy. Stay healthy and happy always. 😊

[@shaan5584]

Wow, she knows so many languages! She must be really smart!

[@blueicebeat]

I come from Hong Kong, when I close my eyes I picture an old Hong Kong granny talking to me🤣

[@Jumpoable]

Well she is. It's just that her father's Indian. She was probably brought up mostly by her Cantonese mother.

[@blueicebeat]

@@Jumpoable Yes, I know, she stated that. It’s just cognitive dissonance ok, i don’t often see an Indian-looking lady with the same speech mannerisms as an hk granny

[@suzannayong9484]

Wa! Aunty 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💖💞💕💕💋🥰💋💋💞💕❤️😍😍🥰😍😍

[@juRa6077]

True blue Singaporean

[@KironManuelCards]

I have a Malaysian citizenship.I had many times to be a Singapore PR.I am a Physiotherapist.I had brought disabled people to Singapore.In Malaysia I had travelled to Genting,Pulau Ketam and many places with disabled people.Now this covid has stopped travel.I have two active blogs.

[@sajambady]

Thank you for the video.

[@CMCJJT]

She is awesome !

[@Potomacstud]

I respect her very very much , awesome lady , she is perfect example of racial harmony

[@skoh7785]

Truly a great lady!!

[@leoloh7171]

What a sweet lady! A wonderful story...what she told is exactly how I remember the old days here even in Malaysia.

[@lesalan360]

The Tamil fonts on the thumbnail image are in a gibberish. Please do rectify it. Whats the purpose of including Tamil writings when it is not even in the correct form.😤

[@fattybbritto8461]

Tbh the Chinese words too. It’s Chinese characters but it doesn’t make sense at all 😕

[@prabx.g]

Please change it!😭

[@_heed]

@@fattybbritto8461 it should be read in hokkien (li chiak pa bue?).. in mandarin of course doesn't make any sense

[@AdrianPak24]

@@_heed 多謝晒 is thank you in Cantonese, and 你食飽未 is have you eaten, can be read in both Cantonese and Hokkien.

[@badbog1515]

@@fattybbritto8461 you clearly dont know chinese at all, banana

[@polaristan3855]

Your grandma is amazing . I love her .🤩🤩🤩

[@justnow5809]

So natural...

[@medyatioktarina1430]

She is so adorable

[@Praetorian157A]

I come from that era. In those days our kampung was peaceful and gotong royong. We co-celebrate each other’s new years and anytime we kids could eat in our neighbour’s house. No halal issues. Teng nang, gweilo, keling kia, bengali, etc, were not derogatory terms. We were mostly uneducated and had no bad feelings. These days, its these nonsense western “political correctness” ideas thats dividing people into categories. Our asian culture is better than that. Western culture breeds individualism while our asian culture cultivates sense of community and family. That is why China is ahead economically and socially and this pandemic is more controlled in asian society and mostly eradicated in China except for new cases imported from abroad. My 2 cents!

[@raqalglaser6113]

She is so unique. Kampong life and environment is gone . Nowadays neighbor shut their doors . I miss my Chinese, malay and Indians friends back in my old place. Jalan besar .

[@birinaL]

❤😊what a personality😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊love u dadi

[@yoongikookie4968]

Just seen this and I really hope to meet her she's so nice

[@evelynlgy]

She speaks cantonese so much like my poh poh. My poh poh was from Singapore too 😊 Miss my poh poh 😢

[@paecpc]

Nice clip, an adorable lady! And don’t judge a book by its cover! She might wear a bindi on her forehead, but once she opens her mouth, she is more Chinese than anything else. Thanks for sharing! Majulah Singapura!

[@caedanteng5417]

👏👏👏👏must learn from her.

[@TeenyTots]

Adorable. .Stay connected #TeenyTots.

[@karma4990]

Ya! my kampong at Ah Hood Road in 60s do have a Indian girl named "Sila"speaks perfect teochew. Unlike today's RC not even know names of resident in the same block. Activities attending by confine few faces.

[@kuang1213]

wow wonderful make. bravo.

[@Melissa05121992]

My mum and her mum and grandma also used to stay in kampung mix with all race and learn alot of languages. During celebration they all help out and enjoy together. I can say now is extinct in our generation which is sad 😭 all neighbour all no chit chat all busy work than lock themself in house.

[@damusdeshi622]

Awesome example 👍👍😎

[@traquine]

holy cow HER HOKKIEN IS SO FLUENT

[@waciao3967]

Respect to Mdm Rose! 🌹

[@suzannayong9484]

Halo, Aunty I like your video, can u show more of your video? 😃😊😍

[@Annnabannanna]

Wth!!! This is kinda trippy. To see someone who stereotypically don't look cantonese speak fluent cantonese is trippy for me..... Woah!!

[@chombiehello3515]

yes... if you did not see her..you probably thought she was chinese..Nice to go back to our old times.

[@Annnabannanna]

@@chombiehello3515 exactly, she sounds more of a local than me....

[@DonYang73]

Amazing

[@zacchie]

A national treasure

[@ariaantoro6084]

she is so cute

[@PoojaRobbie]

Thank you for sharing this video. We're also a multicultural family living in Singapore (Indian-Chinese American). and my Indian wife can speak some Chinese too

[@inuwooddog3027]

She's a genius! 😱

[@nihazdamba]

Sayanggg auntie 🌹

[@wangwang2048]

None of the Tamil Ethnic of Hong Kong-Indians living in Hong Kong can know Cantonese like you. You are the only one. thank God Try hard to yourselves. Cheers! Singaporean of Tamil Ethnic.

[@juneeng1652]

Auntie Rose ture Singaporean ❤👍

[@georgelanna9620]

June eng. How are you doing today?

[@juneeng1652]

@@georgelanna9620 I'm doing okay thanks

[@georgelanna9620]

@@juneeng1652 you are welcome dear

[@georgelanna9620]

Hope you know mind me too know more about you dear 💕🌹❤️💋💖

[@georgelanna9620]

@@juneeng1652 where are you from dear

[@anneanandan8131]

God Bless You G.ma

[@artistsyeun7677]

People like this can live past 100 years.

[@eunagiii]

audio is loud then soft at times, music is rly loud at some point that covers her audio. good video, but the audio can be better! :)

[@a0rer585]

She’s 84 this year meanwhile my grandmothers are also in their 80s but they have no great grandchildren and I’m still underage.she must be really young when she gave birth to her kids.

[@youtubecreepy9780]

Love you 💜

[@worthyourwhilearthi.g6511]

I love Singapore komala's food.

[@linsp1004]

Coolest grandmother ever

[@jiaweike3518]

Upon hearing Singaporean’s speak their accent (voice) seems to contain a noticeable mixture of a variety of Asian languages. I suppose there are pros and cons about it since policies instated by some countries make learning certain dialects compulsory so that majority of the populace could understand each other. But because of this certain regional dialects may gradually fade away if they are simply not spoken frequently or used by the locals.

[@edwardtam4083]

Oh, she speaks Cantonese very good

[@Macanese]

Wow her accent is very close to some Macanese (mixed Eurasian of Portuguese) in Macau.

[@envitech02]

Amazing Auntie Rose. She's so fluent in multiple languages. But what she said is true. We cannot call people Keling 人 anymore. That's just plain racist, disrespectful and politically incorrect. In my company we have three university interns from Malawi, Algeria and Sudan, all have typical dark skin and African features. Yet I forbid my children and staff to call the "Hak Guai" or Black Devil's. That's soooo off-putting, racist and disrespectful. Instead we call them "Fei Chau Yan" "非洲人" or Africans which is more acceptable. Any staff who uses the "b" word will be pulled aside and issued with a show cause letter.

[@valentinabiebie]

👏👏👏❤️🌹

[@georgelanna9620]

Your beauty really got my attention, I couldn't pass by without saying hey