Saturday, October 07, 2006

MPz In Da House, Yo!

A bit late with this topic, but bear with me here.

Young, first term pappy MPs are performing hip hop dances at next yr's Chingay Parade. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/233752/1/.html

You see? they really attracting talent. last time parliament only got miss singapore universe, only know how to stand there, act pretty and keep the backbenchers awake. Now they probably got hip-hop performances during interludes!! Now dat's talent, yo.

But u gotta wonder... how did they come up with this idea? maybe to connect wid da youth, they did a poll thingy, like so, yo.

Q: Would you like your newly (un)elected MP to
a) Make sure your precinct is upgraded as promised during the elections, or
b) Go down wid da hip-hop grooves and earn some street cred to git widdit, yo?

Or maybe due to the success of so much more TV reality voting as compared to actual ballot-slip voting, they changing the format of the elections? instead of the boring "GE2010" you'll have "MP Idol 2010" where hosts Kermit Singh and DearDaniel Ong (it wld be great if he really didn't have a mouth) spout endless nonsense to spur senseless bouts of frenzied SMS voting.

Of course, you have the judges, or rather, arbitrators in this format, who are chosen based on their skill to praise the untalented with uncomprehensible statements. (I didn't waste my time watching sg idol, so i can't quote anyone, just read from newspaper.)

but the most impt - the hordes of idol-less teenagers who have absolutely no clue about wat talent is, willing to spend entire allowances supporting any good looker, and have SMS-friendly thumbs guaranteed to out-SMS any sensible adult. then of coz they will get a higher score than a distinction of 66%!!!!

but of coz, this is all conjecture of future events. wat's more impt here is the present state - MPz gettin' jiggy wid it. Guess wid all dat bling, it wuz da next logical step 2take, yo.

So while the teenagers of today are gagging themselves over the MPz attempts at establishing a connection of some semblance, http://www.spug.net/showthread.php?t=87050, more grown up ppl like me have some concerns when we 1st saw it on the news. like:

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!??!?!?!?!?!

we didn't (un)elect you to dance at chingay lor... we spent money to get foreign talent to come here and do the same thing, and better somemore. we (didn't) elect u to solve our country's problems... and there you are doing hip-hop?!?!?!?

I think in time to come, some of them will receive letters beseeching them to return to being actual MPs. below here is a sample letter you can use:
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Dear MP,

Recently I heard in the news that you and your colleagues in parliament are to perform dances at next year's Chingay Parade. I salute your efforts - it probably must take lots of time and energy to become to competent at something some of you have admitted you are not good at.

However, the upgrading works for my precinct, promised in the elections earlier this year, have still not been carried out - there have been no signs of any construction work done in my area.

Seeing that Chingay is so far away and you being so competent at your dance moves, why don't you skip a few practise sessions and carry out your promises? you could start by

a) help me repaint my leaky ceiling HDB takes no liability for even though they built the damn building
b) help me set up hidden CCTV cameras in my house to catch my maid swinging my kid around by the legs
c) get my upstairs neighbour to stop their weekly late night mahjong sessions
d) get my downstairs neighbour to stop her nightly karaoke sessions
e) catch my neighbourhood cat killer

I'm sure you can start practising your dance moves in Jan '07 and still give a great performance.

Yours sincerely,
A flabbergasted citizen.
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let's just all hope they start taking their serious positions seriously. itz so damn weird y'know wadyamean?. dey hang loose at da wrong times, like on national tv, and dey are so damn uptight when ppl criticise dem, yo.

"That's part of the fun - to laugh at yourself, to have a sense of humour
about everything...(yo)"

-Chris de souza, MP, Holland-Bukit Timah GRC

Well, many of us found mrbrown humourous. even wid all dat bling, methinks its too late to git down widdit, yo?

I really really hope they stop all this nonsense.

yo.

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