Watch your mouth boy!

I’m afraid I might start speaking Singlish after only having been here for two weeks. I caught myself leaving out words like “the” or “to”, while simultaneously keeping all the verbs in the infinitive. Oh oh. To make things worse, I more and more often have to force myself not to add the completely superfluous particle “lah” at the end of sentences. So far I have been able to cleanse my speech of such Singlish poison before it left my mouth, but who knows how much worse it might get.
I think I just pick up on accents and speech patterns too quickly, just like it happened when I excessively exposed myself to the talk of Barney Stinson, Sheldon Cooper, Dwight Shrute or Tracey Jordan. I even tend to adopt my girlfriends Filipino-California-English when I am around her a lot. My speech pattern (only in English, my foreign language) adjusts itself to the ones I hear around a lot quickly. While that might be good in fitting in and interpersonal skills, it might also bear the danger that after six to seven months in Singapore I might have to pick up learning English at beginners level again…