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Asides

  • Opening the throttle

    There’s nothing quite like opening the throttle on an open road and feeling the wind whipping through your non-existent hair.

  • Growing up

    You know you’ve crossed a certain temporal threshold in your existence when you and your guy friends excitedly:

    1. Download – at a solemnisation lunch – a heart rate monitor app to check how healthy you all are;Instant Heart Rate Monitor by Azumio

      and

    2. Discuss – over Whatsapp – how the Philips AirFryer has gone down in price

      -“…from $300plus to $249!”
      -“Will it go down further?”

      AND THEN contemplate buying the damn air fryer.

      Philips AirFryer

    And that’s not even mentioning the Chinese Chess while we were having drinks!

    Wow guys - we've really aged.

  • “Skyfall” by Adele – ultimate National Day song!

    Skyfall

    Have you watched Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie? It’s awesome!

    Regardless, have you heard “Skyfall” by Adele, the theme song of – jang jang jang! – Skyfall?

    If you have or when you do, you’ll realise that “Skyfall” is, like, the ULTIMATE National Day song ever!

    Observe:

    • A world in crisis: “This is the end”; “When worlds collide and days are dark” – check.
    • Propagating communitarian values: “Let the sky fall, when it crumbles/We will stand tall/Face it all together” – check.
    • The watchful eye of Big Brother: “Where you go I go,/What you see I see” – check.
    • The strangely nurturing yet protective might of defence forces: “I know I’ll never be me, without the security/Of your loving arms/Keeping me from harm/Put your hand in my hand/And we’ll stand” – check.

    BONUS: A not-so-subtle reference to ‘ponding’ in “I’ve drowned”.

    Guess we know who to hire next year to write the National Day 2013 theme song!

    P.S. Just discovered a really awesome mash-up: Adele’s “Skyfall” and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”.