Taken from the description: "A day in the life of a typical working class Singaporean named Terry reveals to us many Singaporean characteristics that we do not pay much attention to. This film shows how little things can bring out the "singaporean-ness" in us, and gives us a good reason to be proud of our country. ".
Just be wary of who the person might actually be, the next time you plan on "jio-ing"/ whistling at someone.
What the actor and actress in Titanic, actually wanted to say. In hokkien!
This video is a parody of Wonder Girl's 'Nobody'. Done by Mr Brown and gang, they comeback with hilarious lyrics (to the tune of Nobody) based on the recent H1Ni pandemic.
*Credits to Rafidah
And what good way to end this post other than to show you my favourite video? Pokemon used to be one of my favourite cartoons but I soon got confused over the many versions of it.
And this my friends, is an awesome video of the Pokemon theme song.
Enjoy!
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Just For Laughs is coming to SINGAPORE!
Yes, you did not see the title wrongly! They are really coming to Singapore!
(Taken From Todayonline.com)
It won’t be long before you might find yourself an unwitting victim of Just for Laughs. MediaCorp TV has entered into an exclusive agreement with Just for Laughs to co-produce and distribute gags for the Asian market. The agreement was signed yesterday between Pierre Girard, the director general of Just Pour Rire Les Gags Inc, and Chang Long Jong, MediaCorp’s deputy CEO. The signing was overseen by MediaCorp’s CEO Lucas Chow, and Yeo Chun Cheng, the chief information officer of MDA. This will be the first Just for Laughs production outside Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. “We’re very excited,” said Kenneth Liang, MediaCorp’s executive vice-president of TV programming and production for Channel 5. “It will be focused on how Asian people react to the Just for Laughs gags. We hope that we can add a lot of value to Just for Laughs with our Asian productions.” MAY SEAH The first Asian version of Just for Laughs is expected to air at the beginning of next year.
It won’t be long before you might find yourself an unwitting victim of Just for Laughs. MediaCorp TV has entered into an exclusive agreement with Just for Laughs to co-produce and distribute gags for the Asian market. The agreement was signed yesterday between Pierre Girard, the director general of Just Pour Rire Les Gags Inc, and Chang Long Jong, MediaCorp’s deputy CEO. The signing was overseen by MediaCorp’s CEO Lucas Chow, and Yeo Chun Cheng, the chief information officer of MDA. This will be the first Just for Laughs production outside Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. “We’re very excited,” said Kenneth Liang, MediaCorp’s executive vice-president of TV programming and production for Channel 5. “It will be focused on how Asian people react to the Just for Laughs gags. We hope that we can add a lot of value to Just for Laughs with our Asian productions.” MAY SEAH The first Asian version of Just for Laughs is expected to air at the beginning of next year.
It won’t be long before you might find yourself an unwitting victim of Just for Laughs. MediaCorp TV has entered into an exclusive agreement with Just for Laughs to co-produce and distribute gags for the Asian market. The agreement was signed yesterday between Pierre Girard, the director general of Just Pour Rire Les Gags Inc, and Chang Long Jong, MediaCorp’s deputy CEO. The signing was overseen by MediaCorp’s CEO Lucas Chow, and Yeo Chun Cheng, the chief information officer of MDA. This will be the first Just for Laughs production outside Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. “We’re very excited,” said Kenneth Liang, MediaCorp’s executive vice-president of TV programming and production for Channel 5. “It will be focused on how Asian people react to the Just for Laughs gags. We hope that we can add a lot of value to Just for Laughs with our Asian productions.” MAY SEAH The first Asian version of Just for Laughs is expected to air at the beginning of next year.
I personally think that Asians, especially Singaporeans would react with a "Siao ah! I hoot you then you know!" Or a 'Ki siao ah!" Or even chase and literally beat them up rather than have a good laugh at it.
So I'm pretty excited to see what happens. Who knows, one of you guys would fall prey to one of their gags!
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Day Out
2nd February was my mother's birthday. We didn't really celebrate it on that day. Instead, we did it on the 1st because my brother had to report back to camp. I must say, that it is really tough doing things behind my mum's back. She's always up and about, and really vigilant. The slightest move can let her know what'll we're up to.
So it was three in the afternoon and I told her to take a nap. I could see her eyes questioning mine, but she slept anyway. Then, it was my task to get the cake, cook the meals and make everything PERFECT. I marinated the meat and left it to soak up the flavour. Then I went to get my mum's cake.
Everything was last minute because none of my brothers told me anything until on that day itself. And I had to do everything. Oh well.
Back to the story..
So I headed to the shop and couldn't find any Dark Forest Cake (my mum's fave). There were only chocolate cakes and tiramisu, and their excuse was because it was Chinese New Year. Stupid or what.
My mum doesn't like chocolate. And we've been eating tiramisu ice-cream for the past few days. So I called my brothers as I paced up and down in the shop. The shop keeper must've thought that I was some kind of amateur thief who panicked at the last minute. Hahah.
Both of them said the same thing "Aiyah, take anything lah". It was so easy for them to say it, I wish I was the one saying it. So I bought a vanilla fruit cake. It was the best I could find. Besides, it isn't too sweet for my diabetic mum.
Made my way home, and my intelligent brother did not stall time for me. I entered my home with a cake in my hands, with my mum greeting me in the kitchen.
Then I found out that she doesn't really like vanilla cakes because of the strong essence. Another bummer.
And the worst of all, she was cooking the meat which I marinated! When I shoo-ed her away, she said "this is my kitchen, why can't I stay here". She was right. It is HER kitchen, and so I stood alongside her, cooking the meal that was meant for her.
We cut the cake before my brother left, and then I found out that these sort of cakes were meant for old people, because it wasn't sweet. So I said that I cared for her, since she had Diabetes. And she actually agreed to my statement.
Fast forward to the next day...
I don't like the idea of not getting gifts for someone's birthday. And being my mum, she always denies wanting anything. And she always keepsour gifts for her because when asked she'll say "sayang mah. Use already then no more how?". Ya lah, keep until evaporate/spoil/cannot use already lah, then more sayang right.
So instead of buying things for her, I brought her out, my treat! She didn't want anything fancy, and letting her pick the place was the worst idea ever. Because instead of relaxing herself at some Spa, or doing shopping spree, my mum chose the library. So on her birthday, she spend the entire day at the library. I actually had a good time there too, because I managed to get back to my hobby of reading books.
Nothing much happened, just that I saw fellow schoolmates; Beverly, Chun Kiat and Mei Yin.
Skipping to the next day...
I decided to bring her out again, this time my choice. I chose IKEA/Giant, since they were side by side. And she loves Giant, and I love IKEA. But then she argued that it was far, and waste of time because the only thing we would be doing was drooling over things we wanted. So I told her to pick another place and we settled on IMM.
This was where something interesting began.
We bought our meals, and to our horror, could not really enjoy it because the inconsiderate people were dragging/lifting/pushing their chairs really noisily. I wonder if people living in that area were taught to do it noisily because everyone there seemed to be doing it, and none of them seemed to be bothered by it, except my mum and I. It was an unpleasant meal, but we decided to settle for dessert as well.
Apparently, it wasn't my lucky day. The dessert stall was manned by China workers (I think so, from hearing their accent). Anyway, the lady that was serving me was pissed that someone was spreading rumours about her. And her colleagues and her were arguing over something. (It was all in Mandarin and I am glad that I managed to understand some of it, unfortunately not all.) There were three of them, including the girl serving me. They argued LOUDLY about 20 feet apart each other. And the girl serving me was pissed and she was going on and on loudly. Everyone were looking at me, and her. And I was disappointed at how professional they were. I stood there for about 5 minutes while she went on and on, even in-between scoops of my durian ice kachang.
Then suddenly, one of the colleague said something that pulled the trigger. The girl that served me was about to burst. She spoke so loudly, and even stormed furiously towards them. It was really loud, the arguments, you know how high pitch and fast they can go. Secretly, my mum and I were waiting for some "action" to happen.
But sadly, one of the In-Charge stepped in to stop the whole commotion. And that was it.
But it is not my first time seeing unprofessional foreigners doing things like this. There was once when I was in the train and a lady (whom I think is also from China, from the way she spoke and looked) who was wearing a dress, actually sat with her legs up in the train! It was really disgusting because her private and panty could be seen. It was a total "Squatting position". Imagine that. Fortunately, it was the last train, and there wasn't much people in the train.
I'm not saying that I dislike foreigners or anything. But I wonder if Singaporeans would do the same too. I doubt so.
So it was three in the afternoon and I told her to take a nap. I could see her eyes questioning mine, but she slept anyway. Then, it was my task to get the cake, cook the meals and make everything PERFECT. I marinated the meat and left it to soak up the flavour. Then I went to get my mum's cake.
Everything was last minute because none of my brothers told me anything until on that day itself. And I had to do everything. Oh well.
Back to the story..
So I headed to the shop and couldn't find any Dark Forest Cake (my mum's fave). There were only chocolate cakes and tiramisu, and their excuse was because it was Chinese New Year. Stupid or what.
My mum doesn't like chocolate. And we've been eating tiramisu ice-cream for the past few days. So I called my brothers as I paced up and down in the shop. The shop keeper must've thought that I was some kind of amateur thief who panicked at the last minute. Hahah.
Both of them said the same thing "Aiyah, take anything lah". It was so easy for them to say it, I wish I was the one saying it. So I bought a vanilla fruit cake. It was the best I could find. Besides, it isn't too sweet for my diabetic mum.
Made my way home, and my intelligent brother did not stall time for me. I entered my home with a cake in my hands, with my mum greeting me in the kitchen.
Then I found out that she doesn't really like vanilla cakes because of the strong essence. Another bummer.
And the worst of all, she was cooking the meat which I marinated! When I shoo-ed her away, she said "this is my kitchen, why can't I stay here". She was right. It is HER kitchen, and so I stood alongside her, cooking the meal that was meant for her.
We cut the cake before my brother left, and then I found out that these sort of cakes were meant for old people, because it wasn't sweet. So I said that I cared for her, since she had Diabetes. And she actually agreed to my statement.
Fast forward to the next day...
I don't like the idea of not getting gifts for someone's birthday. And being my mum, she always denies wanting anything. And she always keepsour gifts for her because when asked she'll say "sayang mah. Use already then no more how?". Ya lah, keep until evaporate/spoil/cannot use already lah, then more sayang right.
So instead of buying things for her, I brought her out, my treat! She didn't want anything fancy, and letting her pick the place was the worst idea ever. Because instead of relaxing herself at some Spa, or doing shopping spree, my mum chose the library. So on her birthday, she spend the entire day at the library. I actually had a good time there too, because I managed to get back to my hobby of reading books.
Nothing much happened, just that I saw fellow schoolmates; Beverly, Chun Kiat and Mei Yin.
Skipping to the next day...
I decided to bring her out again, this time my choice. I chose IKEA/Giant, since they were side by side. And she loves Giant, and I love IKEA. But then she argued that it was far, and waste of time because the only thing we would be doing was drooling over things we wanted. So I told her to pick another place and we settled on IMM.
This was where something interesting began.
We bought our meals, and to our horror, could not really enjoy it because the inconsiderate people were dragging/lifting/pushing their chairs really noisily. I wonder if people living in that area were taught to do it noisily because everyone there seemed to be doing it, and none of them seemed to be bothered by it, except my mum and I. It was an unpleasant meal, but we decided to settle for dessert as well.
Apparently, it wasn't my lucky day. The dessert stall was manned by China workers (I think so, from hearing their accent). Anyway, the lady that was serving me was pissed that someone was spreading rumours about her. And her colleagues and her were arguing over something. (It was all in Mandarin and I am glad that I managed to understand some of it, unfortunately not all.) There were three of them, including the girl serving me. They argued LOUDLY about 20 feet apart each other. And the girl serving me was pissed and she was going on and on loudly. Everyone were looking at me, and her. And I was disappointed at how professional they were. I stood there for about 5 minutes while she went on and on, even in-between scoops of my durian ice kachang.
Then suddenly, one of the colleague said something that pulled the trigger. The girl that served me was about to burst. She spoke so loudly, and even stormed furiously towards them. It was really loud, the arguments, you know how high pitch and fast they can go. Secretly, my mum and I were waiting for some "action" to happen.
But sadly, one of the In-Charge stepped in to stop the whole commotion. And that was it.
But it is not my first time seeing unprofessional foreigners doing things like this. There was once when I was in the train and a lady (whom I think is also from China, from the way she spoke and looked) who was wearing a dress, actually sat with her legs up in the train! It was really disgusting because her private and panty could be seen. It was a total "Squatting position". Imagine that. Fortunately, it was the last train, and there wasn't much people in the train.
I'm not saying that I dislike foreigners or anything. But I wonder if Singaporeans would do the same too. I doubt so.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Racist Issues
When Barack Obama won the title as America's President, everyone from all over the world were pleased. Many of us have been rooting for Obama even though we are not Americans.
Singapore especially, being a Cosmopolitan country, we welcome foreigners from all over the world, with arms wide open. However, having done a Debate on Gender bias in Singapore, I came to realization the true statistics of Gender Bias in Singapore.
But, Singapore does not only suffer from Gender Bias, but also being bias in terms of Race( I wouldn't want to term it as Racism). That was why I found the article found in the papers the day after Obama won, an article asking if Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese PM.
Reading through the article and "debating" it with myself actually made me come to a conclusion that Singapore is not ready.
And one point that proves it all is whenever you job hunt. I wouldn't want to discriminate the specific store, but this one Popular Bookstore had really bad service. When my friends and I, clearly at first look, are non-Chinese, applied for the job, the manager was really rude to us, saying that not all of us will get the job and really seemed disgruntled when she tore the application papers for us.
Well, at first I thought she was having a bad day, but as I filled up the form, I looked around as many others applied for the job. Shockingly enough, she was happily tearing the forms for them, rattling away in Mandarin.
And after every Chinese applicant completed and gave her the form, she would talk to them for a pretty long time. And when my friends did the same to her, she looked at us in disdain, took our paper, not even looking at it, and said "Notice a weeks time", and she looked away.
Well, this is the first Bias treatment that I have received so far, but there are many jobs that, when you apply, always seek for people who can speak in English and Mandarin. I mean, I have no problems, despite not really being good in Mandarin. But it made me stop to ponder, if every one's looking for people who speaks English and Mandarin only, then where would the non-Chinese find a job?
Isn't this the same scenario as in Sri Lanka, where back in I-Don't-know-what-year, the Tamils were only given three years to learn Sinhala or be dismissed. The non-Chinese may not face the exaggerated time limit nor get dismissed, but is Singapore expecting the non-Chinese to pick up that language in order to get a stable job?
I think that Singapore should really cherish its people, and stop inviting foreigners over. It's true that they raise the competitive level for all jobs, but they are literally chasing away Singaporeans. Singaporeans also face limited jobs now. The newly built IRs have 60,000 jobs but only 10,000 are for Singaporeans. The rest? For the foreigners.
Even at the zoo, people are getting retrenched. The tram guides for example, are mostly being replaced with Filipinos.
With the economic meltdown, more people are jobless.
So what is Singapore to do, if all of its people turn their backs on her?
And if Singapore is really ready for a non-Chinese PM, I would LOVE to run for it! hahah
Singapore especially, being a Cosmopolitan country, we welcome foreigners from all over the world, with arms wide open. However, having done a Debate on Gender bias in Singapore, I came to realization the true statistics of Gender Bias in Singapore.
But, Singapore does not only suffer from Gender Bias, but also being bias in terms of Race( I wouldn't want to term it as Racism). That was why I found the article found in the papers the day after Obama won, an article asking if Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese PM.
Reading through the article and "debating" it with myself actually made me come to a conclusion that Singapore is not ready.
And one point that proves it all is whenever you job hunt. I wouldn't want to discriminate the specific store, but this one Popular Bookstore had really bad service. When my friends and I, clearly at first look, are non-Chinese, applied for the job, the manager was really rude to us, saying that not all of us will get the job and really seemed disgruntled when she tore the application papers for us.
Well, at first I thought she was having a bad day, but as I filled up the form, I looked around as many others applied for the job. Shockingly enough, she was happily tearing the forms for them, rattling away in Mandarin.
And after every Chinese applicant completed and gave her the form, she would talk to them for a pretty long time. And when my friends did the same to her, she looked at us in disdain, took our paper, not even looking at it, and said "Notice a weeks time", and she looked away.
Well, this is the first Bias treatment that I have received so far, but there are many jobs that, when you apply, always seek for people who can speak in English and Mandarin. I mean, I have no problems, despite not really being good in Mandarin. But it made me stop to ponder, if every one's looking for people who speaks English and Mandarin only, then where would the non-Chinese find a job?
Isn't this the same scenario as in Sri Lanka, where back in I-Don't-know-what-year, the Tamils were only given three years to learn Sinhala or be dismissed. The non-Chinese may not face the exaggerated time limit nor get dismissed, but is Singapore expecting the non-Chinese to pick up that language in order to get a stable job?
I think that Singapore should really cherish its people, and stop inviting foreigners over. It's true that they raise the competitive level for all jobs, but they are literally chasing away Singaporeans. Singaporeans also face limited jobs now. The newly built IRs have 60,000 jobs but only 10,000 are for Singaporeans. The rest? For the foreigners.
Even at the zoo, people are getting retrenched. The tram guides for example, are mostly being replaced with Filipinos.
With the economic meltdown, more people are jobless.
So what is Singapore to do, if all of its people turn their backs on her?
And if Singapore is really ready for a non-Chinese PM, I would LOVE to run for it! hahah
Thursday, November 06, 2008
True Act of Singaporeans
I went out again yesterday, took the MRT, and returned home feeling rather uncomfortable.
The MRT ride to and fro made me see the true colours of Singaporeans, or at least, the people living in Singapore. It made me question whether or not Singa the courtesy Mascot is doing his job.
The journey from home was rather uncomfortable. The train was not at crowded as it used to be and everyone had a place to sit. And there I was, trying to sleep when I was disturbed by the most obscene thing ever. Apparently, I was seated at the corner seats, and there was this guy who was leaning against the glass. What was disturbing was the action of constantly squishing and moving his butt up and down, against the glass, and I had the full view of it! The mere sight of it wrecked my hunger for sleep, and so I stayed awake, by zombie- ly reading my Reader's Digest.
The journey back home wasn't that great either. There I was, in the overly packed train, seeing teenagers, around my age, blocking the entrances of the doors by literally sitting by them. I used to sit by doors to, but I always say at the doors that rarely opened, and if they did, I always got up a stop before they opened.
To make matters worst, there was a pregnant lady on board, with a pram, and NO ONE actually gave up their sits for her! On one of the stops, the pram nearly toppled and luckily there was another elderly guy who gave up his seat to save it. What a great country, elderly giving up seats for the pregnant/other elderly.
This has not been the first time where I saw elderly giving up seats for others. In fact, there have been other incidents whereby youths, or young adults actually pretended to fall asleep so that they "did not see" the others who need it more.
There have also been incidents where an elderly gave up his seat for someone, and another person actually rushed and sat on the seat!
And I hate it whenever there are couples on board. It's either they start hugging and do all the mushy mushy stuff, or the girl would lean against the pole, with the guy's hand on her waist or something, totally preventing others from holding onto the pole to prevent themselves from falling.
I wonder if Singapore is really proud of its people. I just hope the foreigners that come to Singapore don't learn from us, and do the same thing to others.
By the way, OBAMA WON! YAY!
The MRT ride to and fro made me see the true colours of Singaporeans, or at least, the people living in Singapore. It made me question whether or not Singa the courtesy Mascot is doing his job.
The journey from home was rather uncomfortable. The train was not at crowded as it used to be and everyone had a place to sit. And there I was, trying to sleep when I was disturbed by the most obscene thing ever. Apparently, I was seated at the corner seats, and there was this guy who was leaning against the glass. What was disturbing was the action of constantly squishing and moving his butt up and down, against the glass, and I had the full view of it! The mere sight of it wrecked my hunger for sleep, and so I stayed awake, by zombie- ly reading my Reader's Digest.
The journey back home wasn't that great either. There I was, in the overly packed train, seeing teenagers, around my age, blocking the entrances of the doors by literally sitting by them. I used to sit by doors to, but I always say at the doors that rarely opened, and if they did, I always got up a stop before they opened.
To make matters worst, there was a pregnant lady on board, with a pram, and NO ONE actually gave up their sits for her! On one of the stops, the pram nearly toppled and luckily there was another elderly guy who gave up his seat to save it. What a great country, elderly giving up seats for the pregnant/other elderly.
This has not been the first time where I saw elderly giving up seats for others. In fact, there have been other incidents whereby youths, or young adults actually pretended to fall asleep so that they "did not see" the others who need it more.
There have also been incidents where an elderly gave up his seat for someone, and another person actually rushed and sat on the seat!
And I hate it whenever there are couples on board. It's either they start hugging and do all the mushy mushy stuff, or the girl would lean against the pole, with the guy's hand on her waist or something, totally preventing others from holding onto the pole to prevent themselves from falling.
I wonder if Singapore is really proud of its people. I just hope the foreigners that come to Singapore don't learn from us, and do the same thing to others.
By the way, OBAMA WON! YAY!
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