Fun Pack Song--- Sigh

Many people reacted with dismay when JJ Lin's infamous YOG song was broadcast from tree to tree.

Many people reacted with horror when Colonel Ong Tze Ch'in and his band of organisers for this year's PAP Parade aka National Day Parade (NDP) created a totally absurd version of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance song.

Just with previous attempts at hip-hop dancing and rapping, the PAP establishment bungles at every chance to be "cool".

When I was a kid, we used to sing community songs proudly. "Stand Up for Singapore", "Count on me Singapore", "We are Singapore" etc etc.
Now with the Singaporean identity lost in a sea of foreigners, the feeling is quite different.

But at least, the "Fun Pack song", as this debacle has come to be known, has helped draw some attention to the NDP, albeit unwanted.
More and more Singaporeans use the National Day holiday to visit Malaysia instead of watching the parade.
You can't really blame us for our indifference to our independence day when Lee Kuan Yew himself labelled some contents of our National Pledge as "high falutin" ideas.

Still, the light at the end of the tunnel is that the organisers may have to pull the song out of the parade due to copyright infringements. And it so happens that Lady Gaga is in town today.

Will the musical freak herself freak out at these lyrics?

Let’s start with the bag
That’s right grab your bag
It’s the fun pack pack
Attack the fun pack

Take out the flag, (inaudible)
You can wave it, if you feel like it
Let’s wave the flag
Wave, wave, wave
Let’s wave the flag

(Very nice Singapore, well done)

Take out your light stick, it’s two of a kind
It’s interactive, means you can join
Just pretend
Oh, oh, oh
(Inaudible)

I want Newater and water for a drink
You and me let’s share a bit
I want a biscuit and I want a sweet
You and me let’s share this treat

Kopi O o o o o o o
Time for the fun pack song
Kopi O o o o o o o
We like the fun pack song

Let’s start with the bag
That’s right grab your bad
It’s the fun pack pack
Let’s get the fun pack

I want Newater and water for a drink
You and me let’s share a bit
I want a biscuit and I want a sweet
You and me let’s share this treat

Kopi O o o o o o o
Time for the fun pack song
Kopi O o o o o o o
We like the fun pack song

Let’s start with the bag
That’s right grab your bad
It’s the fun pack pack
Attack the fun pack

One thing's for sure, the incident is frankly embarrassing Singapore.
It probably embarrassed Hitler too.