A not so cheerful song

And not a songful cheer. Well at least that's that's my opinion on the 'official' cheer presented alongside the current youth olympic games.

Much controversy has been surrounding the tune - who sang it? who wrote it? who even approved it?

It's not hard to see why. The words are, as the majority of youths put it, retarded; oh yeah, oh yeah just won't cut it in terms of marking our presence in the stadium.

A good example to look at would be S.Korea with their simple yet catchy cheer (in case there's anothet cheer out there, I'm talking about the goal ole ole cheer). It has Korea written all over it, it's easy to learn yet not fiddling with stupidity.

A recent news article quoted Mr. Ken Lim (great job on the YOG theme song by the way) saying that if he were to do the cheer differently, he would have takrn two lines from a singaporean song, for example "we are singapore, we are singapore". I think it would've made a much better cheer. Heck, I'd take the whole part of it and perhaps change the last line a lil' to make it more cheer-like.

Interestingly enough, only a supposed 20-odd percent of people actually liked the cheer. If that is the case, why did they approve of the cheer then? Shouldn't they have known to do some 'beta testing' before releasing a product into the public? Or are they simply content with the fact that old fogeys enjoyed the cheer while the actual youths were left out?

"Come up with a better cheer if you can", that's not exactly what they said but i think pretty much sums that up. Isn't that too late to be doing that now? And now they're coming up with a nintendo wii to award the chosen one. I'm sorry but it just doesn't seem like a proper amount considering how much you would have likely paid the people involved in "you are the one, Singapore'

Makes us wonder doesn't it?

[Rambling via iKaopei]

Blogging from my iPod

Recently got the iBlogger app for ipod/iphone. i really hope that this'll get me the much needed 'motivation' to get back to blogging. we'll just have to see now don't we?

in other news, life in national service has been pretty alright so far. things are starting to smooth out and all there is to really tire us out is the all important NDP.

sure i might often complain about the pointlessness of countless reptition, or the awkwardness of wearing the 'lobster' costume. But hearing the kids cheering on during last night's show made me feel that this is perhaps a huniliation worth going through haha.

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPod touch]