… the audience spoof it for the most important day of their lives.
Nice! The original was sweet and this is even sweeter. It did touch my heart and I can even feel my hair standing up. Haha. Just like the original.
Check out the original (if you haven’t seen it before).
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Other than that, STB, you rock ! Awesome work here. Woohoo~
Remember how easy it is to play soccer anywhere, anytime when we’re young with just a crushed coke can? And how new games are always invented during recess or on our way home with a handkerchief, a mineral water bottle or simply with nothing but our imagination.
It’s only when we grow up that we find doing such stuff silly. Maybe there should be one for adults. Like how to play ‘Cubicle Hop’, ‘Crushed Proposal Soccer’ and ‘Boss Duck & Dash’ and how to stay young, stay young, stay young and beautiful.
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Hats off to Mr Brown, one of the most creative people in SG, IMO.
The 2-in-1, best of both worlds kiasu mentality is so uniquely Singaporean, it applies to child-naming as well. Check out this dude who is a cross breed between 2 Superheroes!
He even has a Facebook group with 3,567 fans as of 22 Jan 2010, 12:23PM! http://tinyurl.com/y95jox4
Read the long name explanation review the creator of the FB group included under Info.
Batman Bin Suparman is unofficially the most famous Singaporean in the world.
Blogs about Batman Bin Suparman has spread across the internet like wildfire in French, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Bahasa Melayu and German.
- Batman Bin Suparman -
A scanned image of a Singaporean identity card has been making the rounds online. The card belongs to a young fellow, born May 13, 1990 in Singapore to Javanese parents, with the regrettable name of Batman bin Suparman. Two superheroes in one name? Well, one superhero and one Javanese name that’s coincidentally similar to another superhero.
First, Suparman. This is, in fact, a very common name among the Javanese who inhabit central and eastern thirds of the island of Java, as well as nearby ethnolinguistic groups, particularly the Sundanese in the western third of Java. The Su- prefix, derived from a Sanskritic root (सु in Devanagari) meaning ‘good, fortunate’, shows up frequently in Javanese names, such as the first two presidents of Indonesia, Sukarno and Suharto, as well as the current president Susilo (Bambang Yudhoyono). A top Indonesian military commander is named Djadja Suparman.
The full name, Batman bin Suparman, features an Arabic patronymic construction occasionally used by Muslims in the region. Bin means ‘son’, so the name is literally “Batman, son of Suparman”. Could Suparman and his wife have named their son Batman as a wry joke, playing on the similarity of Suparman to Superman? Perhaps, but it would be unfortunate for the young man to be saddled for life with his parents’ one-time attempt at humor.
One final possibility to consider: could the image of the identity card be a fake? Doesn’t seem that way. First, the line of Jawi script (Arabic script used for writing Malay) is a perfect transliteration of the Romanized name. Furthermore, one Singaporean blogger recalled in 2005 that he was childhood friends with Batman bin Suparman. And a commenter on another Singapore-based blog remembered the name from working at a call center.
And he’s the number 38th reason why Singapore is the greatest city in the world!
Read more about it here http://tinyurl.com/yb5mytb
Talking about funny names I heard one that is frigging hilarious. I’ve this friend with a friend (with a friend with a friend with a friend…) called Chee Keong and his surname is Fu. Sounds like an entirely normal and harmless name right? Fu Chee Keong. Chee Keong being quite a common name. So for 18 years, his life was alright until the day he enlisted for National Service. Every recruit will have his initials sewn onto his army uniform. Take for example, my brother’s is Quek W M. So for Mr Fu, tagged onto his uniform were the letters: FU C K !
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but I highly recommend Chestnuts’ annual theatre performance to everyone. They are the funniest, most daring and craziest! I’m amazed at how original their spoofs can be. It’s too bad that they can’t sell the live recording of their shows (I asked them before. They can’t do it cos of copyright issues.) Thank goodness they leaked out some clips here and there to keep us reminded of their incredible talent at spoofs and parodies.
I’ve been watching this over and over again and I still find it funny every time I watch it. Chestnuts scriptwriters are brilliant! Ris Low (played by Judee Tan) looks like she’s enjoying the performance too! Okays, now I totally regret missing Dec’09 Chestnuts. 
The 12 Days of Ris-mas
One of the funniest moments during the Chestnuts production in 2008.
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BOOMZ is the new new with New Urban Male’s swift retail spin on the recent Ris Low saga. With her gaining fame via RAZR TV followed by the credit card fraud dirty panties hung out for all and sundry to see and then all that dirt dished out on Miss Runner Up with the back-stabbing tale-telling drama; Ris Low has made a name for herself and inspired fashion retailers in SG. Yes, she is indeed a fashionista, creating a t-shirt craze with her infamous “BOOMZ”.
New Urban Male’s collection:
http://www.newurbanmale.com/shopping/cms.php?content=boom
They have kindly included the RAZR TV interview as a reference for the inspiration behind their design. It’s fun to re-watch it and have a good laugh. FYI, there’s also an eight part Ris Low interview on RAZR TV. NUM even has a contest promotion asking customers to form an original sentence using the word “BOOMZ” and the winner with the best tagline will walk away with a BOOMZ tee of his / her choice!
Private retailers also can’t helped but be inspired by this new fashion lingo.
http://www.comboutique.asia/shop/homeboutique-1867.html
http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/item/im-feeling-yknow-boomz-womens-dark-tshirt/408119880
Here’s what a quick design of what I’ve in mind. 
A “Miss BOOMZ 2009″ pageant sash with leopard preens on a rad colour tee. Hehe. I want to wear this sash-tee man! I think I will dress up as Ris Low for Halloween – with leopard preens and a beauty queen tiara. It gotta be something red. Something that shouts ME! Something that BOOOOOOOMz!
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One of the better locally-produced ads I see on TV. This one kinda reminds me of Amelie the film – the same quirky treatment applied on a quirky tale of a quirky girl. The kids are cute and quite natural. I didn’t expect it to be a Channel 8 ad! Such a nice surprise.
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Adaptation by local kids. Hey, they’re cool! Look out for them. Bravo for having the guts to sing out loud in a public place. And compare the difference in reaction of the McD staff in these 2 clips.
This would have tied in so well with SG McDee’s “Love is” campaign running now. Perhaps SG McD can hire these kids to sing at different McD outlets islandwide and have the clips uploaded online. OR release a campaign to get consumers to sing a love song @ the McD counters for a free meal! I’m sure we’re game enough for it. I mean I will do it (with some partners-in-crime lah). Heh.
Check out the other clips in this kid’s [jamesnjj] YouTube channel.
Love is… music for them.
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One good way to generate ideas is to ask “What if”. What if the product doesn’t exist? What if the product were a person? What if Singapore were a person?
Nice one, Mister Miyagi. And the Nokia N93i seems like a cool phone.
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