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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:59:18 EST
From:         mulliner@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject:      SG: Popular Culture (2 Jan 93) (fwd)

                   Ohio University Electronic Communication


   Date:  04-Jan-1993 09:57am EST

     To:  Southeast Asia listers               ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )

   From:  Kent Mulliner                              Dept:  Library
          MULLINER                                 Tel No:  614-593-2707

Subject:  SG: Popular Culture (2 Jan 93) (fwd)


Forwarded from Singapore Gopher, TECHNET, with permission
Prepared by Singapore International Foundation (SIFlash)


What's In and Hot?
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As Friday (1 Jan) is a public holiday, we bring you this segment
on Saturday (2 Jan).

Catch up with what is making waves on the island every forthnight

Mystery II is the latest Chinese drama-mama fare from SBC.  Its
rojak ala 'anyhow also can' stories transcend time and space to
put the most implausible plots on celluloid.  The first story saw
a very disoriented and space-lagged Madeline Zhu shuttling from
two time zones and heartthrob actor Li Nanxing in a ridiculous
space suit with real tight tights.  The next story invested in
its protagonist the power to read other people's thoughts.  But
everytime he reads their thoughts aloud, his tummy gets bigger.
And to top it all, there is a little white fairy who falls in
love with this bigger-by-the-minute chap.  Then there is the
story which is set in a ulu place far away from the city.  The
haunted house, the fake skeletons, the disfigured demon and
screaming females make up the inane plot.  a lot of viewers are
still glued to the telly, maybe to see if the stories can get any
sillier or more ridiculous.  Think they won't be very
disappointed with the results.

Singapore now has her own version of the grunge look.  Not quite
as colourful and chic as the New York version.  Been noticing
people in very loose jeans --- those just-about-to-drop-any-
moment and can-sweep-the-floor-for-free type with a scruffy shirt
and a stringy Swan singlet to give the complete look.  His one-
length hair is fashionably uncombed and greasily oiled.  No one
is thinking of possible acne breakouts but everyone is raving
about the grunge look.  Usually unkempt, untidy and unclean ---
the 3 Us of the grunge gang.  Others like to sport the James Dean
look, this time with a more slick and gelled hairstyle, a cleaner
and tighter shirt that actually looks white with the same hipster
jeans.

Oh yes, talking about jeans, telly viewers have been plagued by
this White Caucasian male trying to show some legs (among other
things...) in the latest series of Levi's 501 Buttonfly Jeans
commercials.  In the darkened cinema, in the home, in the
newspapers, this chap never fails to appear with his finger at
his ummm... buttonfly jeans.  He tries to look "in" with his
spartan surroundings, avant-garde furniture and in his good old
Buttonfly jeans, without much commercial success.  Now buttonfly
jeans, so what will be next?....Jeans in the 21st Century, with
no zip, no buttons....drawstring jeans like our granddad's airy
pyjamas?

Shoplifting has always been a pain in the umm.. for the
deparmental stores' security personnel.  Especially during the
Christmas and Lunar New Year seasons when people receive their
bonuses and then go buy and buy and buy.  And for those who don't
buy but still take, well, Isetan has a security measure to
prevent that from happening too often.  It seems that the
shoplifters are usually teenagers and also members of gangs.  So
when the security people recognize the familiar faces in the
shopping frenzy, the PA system starts to play the all-so familiar
tune from Hawaii Five-0.  Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta....ta....




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