Png is not pick and go lah, png is rice in hokkien, chai png,
jiak png, png derives from olden days when I was driving cedric
Nissan taxi for $30 per day,
whether AP, taxi stand got large crowd, our radio (last time no
computer and hp one hor) will announce lai lai, jiak png at tiong
bahru taxi stand, meaning lai lai making money time at TB taxi
stand. That time, to work is know as Jiak png time.
Then when Deng Xiao peng in 1990 open up Chinese economy, and
our 3rd generation the X gen graduated, they changed is to pick and
go…that is how it come about.
Sweeping derives from our Singapore Pool Big Sweep, older taxi
drivers like me will tell you Big Sweep along geyland or shenton
way, now it changed to Sweep and go because of taxi stands at city,
last time no taxi stand mah, just road side wave..TAXIS!, taxi will
stop on the road side and you just pick. Like in London and New
York, just wave only. Everyone buy big sweep, and most lost, so
that is why it is call BIG SWEEP until tar
tar.