Sad but what's the difference is Hokkien and Bahasa are
differentiated but Hokkien and Mandarin which guise as
pseudo-mother tongue can quickly convert those who think ching
chong chang lah. Too bad Sg dialects will be extinguished by the
pseudo mother tongue that the state promote.
Being rootless is easier to rule... 
Our roots (Singaporean Chinese
roots) will always be firmly rooted in the Hokkien
culture.
For the youngster or the uninformed, many of Singapore's English
and Malay major landmarks and place names were transliterated
(音譯) into established Chinese characters via Hokkien
pronunciation (and some also Cantonese / Hakka / Teochew).
(It is parallel to Hong Kong
which transliterate the English place names via its Cantonese
pronunication and not from the Mandarin pronunciation) (as well as
parallel to Malaysia and Indonesia which transliterate the local
place names via its Hokkien or Cantonese pronunciation which would
be meaningless if read out using Mandarin pronunciation)
Most of the minor roads that hasn't
had common Chinese characters in the past were given a Mandarin
transliteration at a much later period, whereas landmarks that are
cognates with famous names (eg. Alexander Rd / Henderson Rd /
Victoria St / Mt Elizabeth) uses the general Mandarin
transliteration as with other Chinese speaking communities.
Taking a quick look at English & Malay original landmark and
place names transliterations of Chinese characters and one will
find:
Eg:
Hokkien
Teochew / Cantonese /
Hakka
Thus we can always use these chances to create the awareness for
the younger generations, that if not for the original Hokkien
pronunciations, those Chinese characters would make no sense if it
were to be read with Mandarin pronunciations.
(Example: How does Bang-E (Mandarin for 榜鵝)
correlate at all with the sound in Punggol/Ponggol (Malay)? If not
for the original language (Hokkien), we would not know the Chinese
characters 榜鵝 should have been read as Pong-Go (Hokkien
for 榜鵝)
originally before Mandarin snatched the place as one of our
official language in Singapore instead of Hokkien)
