On the Hello Kitty Craze in Singapore:

"The kitties can't smile

Or they would be laughing at all of us now.

I remember the humble beginning when me and my girlfriends were at King Albert Park's McDonald's just touching the kitty on display and wondering if we should get it and insisting that we are too manly to get it but we got it anyway. There were too much stock to go around then.

Fast forward 3 weeks and we have grown men arguing with poor frontline managers and evoking crowds to rebel and laughingly asking our Singapore Police Force to queue for the Hello Kitties for them.

And for not the first time in my life, I wondered aloud why I was a Singaporean. 

Just imagine; somewhere, the person who was commissioned a cat - who simply couldn't be arsed to finish sewing the mouth of the cat because she had a last minute date and she was pushing 30 after all - is looking at us now and laughing while sleeping in all the sewing thread she saved from doing away with the kitty's mouth.

I quote the great Thor of the even greater Avengers,

"You people are so puny. And petty. Ho ho ho ho (sweeps L'oreal-commercial worthy golden locks away from his stunning face)"

Sigh."

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