Prepping up for the Little Red Dot's birthday...

Wah, the buildup to National Day 2013 is palpable. Certainly, discounts-wise, it gets better...

I don't expect to be around in 2065 but imagine the discounts then... 100% off!

Of late, there seems to be a new NDP (National Day Parade) song every year. This year's was panned by many people -- including me, so I won't even mention it. Here's what one critic felt:

A compilation of tried and tested favourite NDP songs was put up by insing.com:

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/5-best-national-day-songs/id-a3783f00

But as someone noted, that list omitted Tanya Chua's "Where I Belong" (2001) -- a very nice composition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SG&hl=en-GB&v=jUf-5W6AKes

Local song composer Dick Lee shared with ST readers the inspiration for his 1998 NDP hit, "Home":

Among other newspaper stories that have appeared in the run-up to National Day this Friday (Aug 9) is this one from ST that I like:

I think our boys in green should have a special place on every National Day. This song below -- "The BMT Song" -- while not an NDP theme song, is very good!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt_x0BTg6OU

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Lifted -- the haze over what SBY actually said!

Finally, when Indonesian President SBY famously apologised to "our brothers in Singapore and Malaysia" in June for the smog that hit those neighbouring countries as a result of peat cum forest fires from Sumatra, I had -- in a blog entry -- wondered what were his choice of words, in Bahasa Indonesia. Well, I am glad someone else was just as curious, albeit from a feminist perspective:

Ah yes, "saudara saudara" would indeed have been an apt choice as the term connotes "brothers in common purpose" or, simply, "comrades".