ASS (Abbreviations on Singapore Side)

I’m starting to suspect Singapore has a love affair with acronyms / abbreviations.

For starters, all the highways here are in three letter acronyms. There’s the AYE, PIE or CTE (SLE), BKE, KJE, KPE, MCE, TPE, etc etc. How do you ever listen to traffic reports? To buy a car you need something called a COE and pay for ERP, else you’re stuck with the MRT. Bus services are under SBS. You can fly in by SIA airlines. Work permits are applied through the MOM. The local town council is JTC, apartments are managed by the HDB. Other government ministries include the PUB, CPF, MOH, CWO, EDB, MCB, just to name a few! Universities here include NUS, NTU & SMU which I assume are all under the MOE. Interestingly, they originally wanted to name NTU as Nanyang University of Technology...but decided against it because the abbreviation would have been NUT. Unfortunately, Anderson Secondary School had no choice but to stick with ASS.(hahaha)....   For banking, there’s DBS, OCBC, OUB…. If you’re sick, drop by the NUH or SGH. Where I work, projects & facilities are known best by their acronyms like SOP, PAC, SAR, SPT. But before you attend that, you need to attend SIC/SOC courses conducted by the NTUC.

AND.. to top it off… you buy stuff using your NETS card, and everything you buy has GST!!

Here's one for you. WTF?

You want the full list? Check it out here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Singapore_abbreviations