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- Yawning Bread Sampler
- This blog carries summary abstracts of Yawning Bread essays, with space for comments.
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- The Good News Times strikes again
- Religious affiliation of MPs
- Teacher's termination still unaccounted for
- CPF and its creaky assumptions
- Cinema: Jesus camp
- Singapore second last in Asia democracy index
- Race, religion and Negarakuku
- 2 by 6
- Police declare joggers an "illegal assembly"
- Time travel via our roads
- Spirits from our past
- Pity the heliconias
- Death by numbers, part 2
- Death by numbers
- Picking on a picnic
- Public transport model needs a rethink
- Bark and crumble
- Letter to the people of Singapore
- My kissing project, part 4
- Lee Low Tar
- Where to draw the line on marriage?
- My kissing project, part 3
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6 comments:
It is not 'kiong kan' in cantonese, but kiam kan in hokkien, which literally means owe a fuck, or deserved to be fucked.
'Lelai' IMO is most probably his way of censoring the word by the acronym 'CB'...
the "Private School" in the lyrics actually refered to the Chinese Independent High School. for more info see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Independent_High_School
I like the video clip, very innovative!
Let us just listen and enjoy.
To set the record straight.
Negara-ku ku is actually a legitimate Malay phrase meaning "My (version of) Negara-ku".
Negara-ku means "My country" = Nat Anthem
Negara-ku ku means "My" Negara-ku = My (version of the) Nat Anthem
Of course, he has cleverly made a pun with Negara kuku - which means the country is kuku. "Kuku" besides penis, may also take on the meaning of stupid, crazy or idiot (derived from cuckoo).
Penis being a near-expletive, I see no reason to assume blogger Namewee used "kuku" in that sense, not when the alternative sense "stupid country" suits his video perfectly.
I don't know if Namewee reads Shakespeare, but his pun on Negara-ku ku is well worthy of Shakespearean standard.
The MATA does not issue receipt, he issues summons. Meng Chee used the Malay equivalent "saman" which is also the colloquial Hokkien for "teow saman".
"wild war" is a term meaning having sex anywhere outdoors
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