Monday, June 19, 2006

cultivating national pride and a sense of belonging.

scrap national education and social studies.
what singapore needs is to get into the world cup.

just look at england.
all because of the world cup, they got goodness knows how many songs about the world cup and victory got into the UK top 20 countdown. nevermind the fact that the songs have a less than catchy tune, and low standard lyrics, as long as the lyrics said something like "england bring back the world cup!" they got on the charts. even crazy frog's (ugh, all that techno.) version of queen's "we are the champions" made it in.

the way the whole country is rallying together behind the team is quite amazing. just imagine if singapore made it into the world cup! the government might just declare a public holiday for it. that single achievement would make the whole of singapore unite in a way you've never witnessed before.

the closest we ever got to that was when jing junhong was fighting for bronze in the olympics, i think in 2004? and that simple match had practically every household glued to the tv screen for the duration of the match. the next day everyone was talking about it.

imagine the world cup!
everyone decked in red and white and waving a miniature singapore flag.
national day for one whole month!

we could get A-do (HAHA.) to sing a song for singapore's victory in the world cup. like "majulaaaah singapuraaa, world cup win win win!" then again, no. since he has this amazing ability to make everything sound like a funeral march.

Posted by STINKY @ 9:06 PM