Tuesday 3 January 2006

Pome-pome

Pome-pome is a common Singaporean phrase for taking a bath, normally used with little children. I still haven't figured what language it originated from.

Matt saw S washing the dishes the other day and remarked, "Daddy, you're pome-pome-ing the plates right? You have to pome-pome the plates because they're dirty right, like I have to pome-pome when I'm dirty right?"

"Yes, Matt."

"Like pigs and lions also have to pome-pome right, because they get dirty?"

"Yes, Matt."

"But you cannot pome-pome clocks right, because they have electricity?"

"That's right!"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Lu, great blog! Will be sure to check it regularly.

I have actually never heard of the phrase 'pome-pome', ya learn something new everyday...