The guy who wrote the original post is NOT ESL, He's from singapore, english is the native language, they just rarely communicate in any type of english except singlish. Which has brutalized compleatly the structure of real english.
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Actually, having schooled (and by schooling there, also lived, and interacted with people from all over) in Singapore, English is NOT the "native" language, though it can be, pending on where in Singapore you were born/raised. The official language
S of Singapore are: Chinese, Malay, Tamil, AND English. From my experience, the most commonly used ones are Chinese and Malay. You're right about what singlish is though.
Also, I was an ESL student once too. You'd never think that though, would you? ^_^