A Mind of My Own

Since the huge hoohaa about Complaints Choir being canceled because of foreigners singing the lyrics, I decided to do a little research on how it all began. I thought it was organised by M1 Singapore Fringe? And so, I am late but it also means that I get to see others put up their opinions too.

The idea was the brainchild of a Finnish couple, performance artists Tellervo Kelleinen and Oliver Kochta Kalleinen. They were discussing the Finnish term Valituskuoro, which literally means “complaints choir” but refers to a situation in which numerous people are complaining about something at the same time. Tellervo and Oliver thought it would be interesting to make an actual choir of complainers. They circulated flyers and posters in Birmingham, England in 2005 and soon got together a small but enthusiastic group of participants. Each one contributed some random complaints, the list was set to music, and the resulting performance was an instant hit (both in Birmingham and around the world, thanks to YouTube).

My first Youtube experience was with the Helsinki Complaints Choir. When I read the subtitles, I realised that they have complaints and peeves similar to ours too. Youtube has videos of the rest of the Complaints Choir. The wonders of technology.

Singapore Complaints lyrics found at Chillycraps. Featured in Mr Brown, Yahoo!, Online Citizen, The Vancouver Sun, The China Post and many more. Full article from Straits Times by Simply Jean.

Since I know I won’t be a regular contributor to Thursday Thirteen, I’ll link the posts that I have found hilarious.

13 Hilarious Google Search queries - Mama Duck

13 Interesting Facts About Roads - Lilibeth

13 Funny Diet Tips - Not Your Mama’s Diet

13 Things You Don’t Know About Bloggers on The Internet - The Teach

13 Differences - Laughing Lawyer

Pictures from Yellowstone - Susan Helen Gotfried

Want some more? Check out Thursday Thirteen.

I have a slave. For 2 days. This was because Cris, the Young Businessman decided to test my knowledge of him. He promised to be my slave for 2 days if I can guess his age. What an easy guess. It was all over the blog. And just in case you are thinking that I hopped over to his blog, I did. But that guess wasn’t during my blog hopping. I was testing out my themes. I had remembered during my final guess (3 guesses) to correctly guess his age.

Now, he’s my slave. He will be doing the following:

1. Get more traffic for my blog.
2. Get more RSS subscribers for my blog.
3. Troubleshoot a theme.
4. Serve me some tea and cheesecakes whenever I like
5. Get me some good masseur.
6. Design a logo for this blog.
7. Find me some sexy dancers.
8. Show me a pole dance with him dressed up as a sexy male dancer.

That should be all for these 2 days to keep him busy. Ah, being served by a slave sure is cool.