Oceanshaft

ご存知な方もいるかもしれませんが、Helsinki で始まった運動（最初に実現したところは UK の Birmingham だけど）Complaint Choir は名前の通り、人を集めて文句を唄う合唱団を作る運動です。そして、シンガポールにも来ました。シンガポールで有名な blogger、mr brown のサイトで初めて見ました。ビデオは下に乗せました。そして、歌詞も。特に、chorus（サビ？）の歌詞がいいなと。日本にもこの運動は着陸しましたかな？

We get fined for almost anything
Drivers won't give chance when you want to change lane
The indoors are cold, the outdoors are hot;
And the humid air, it wrecks my hair
Those answering machines always make you hold
Only to hang up on you

When a pregnant lady gets on the train
Everyone pretends to be asleep
I'm stuck with my parents till I'm 35
Cause I can't apply for HDB
We don't recycle any plastic bags
But we purify our pee

*chorus:
What's wrong with Singapore?
Losing always makes me feel so sore
Cause if you're not the best
Then you're just one of the rest

My oh my Singapore
What exactly are we voting for?
What's not expressly permitted
is prohibited

"Ooh"

When I'm hungry at the food court, I see
People chope seats with their tissue paper
To the auntie staying upstairs:
Your laundry's dripping on my bed sheets
Please don't squat on the toilet seats
And don't clip your nails on MRT

Stray cats get into noisy affairs
At night my neighbor makes weird animal sounds
People put on fake accents to sound posh
And queue up 3 hours for donuts
Will I ever live till eighty five
to collect CPF?

*chorus

Singaporeans too kiasu! (so scared to lose)
Singaporeans too kiasi! (so scared to die)
Singaporeans too kiabor! (scared of their wives)
Maybe we’re just too stressed out! (even the kids)

"Ooh"

Old National Library was replaced by an ugly tunnel
Singaporean men can’t take independent women
People blow their nose into the swimming pool (and pee too)
And fall asleep on my shoulder in the train

Singapore’s national bird is the crane (the one with yellow steel girders)
Real estate agents’ leaflets clogging up my mailbox (en bloc, en bloc, en bloc, en bloc)
Why can’t we be buried when we die?
No one wants to climb Bukit Timah with me

*chorus

There are not enough public holidays
My neighbor sings KTV all night
Wedding dinners never start on time
My hair is always cut shorter than I want
Channel 5 commercials are way too long
Why do men turn bald?

*At first it was to speak more mandarin
Then it was to speak proper English
What’s wrong with my powderful Singlish?

People sit down during rock concerts
We have to pay for tap water at restaurants
ERP gantries are everywhere
But I can still see traffic jams on the road
All the bus stops have tilted benches
Cannot access playboy.com

*chorus

先ほど Australian Open の男性準決勝をテレビで見ました。昨日は Federer と Blake の間の準々決勝を。昨日の試合はすごかった。Blake はよくプレイしたが、Federer は戦ってさらによくやって結局勝ちましたね。一人の commentator はこう言った「他の人から最近は『無敵』から『強い敵』になったと評価されたが、straight sets で勝ったのにベストの50～60パーセントを出している状態と言われるものだと考えると、どんなレベルの選手だとわかりますね。」

そして今日の試合。Tsonga と Nadal 。もっとすごい試合ですね。なんですか、この Tsonga ?間違いをしなかったと言えるでしょう。Nadal は別に悪くプレイしたわけでもないのに、straight sets で Tsonga に負けました。感激。感動。そのフランス人、強いし、技術もあるし、コントロールもいいし。すばらしい試合でした。Nadal もあきらめず戦ったのでさらに面白いし。見て正解！