Happy National Day folks.

Guess what? Techno rules. The majority of the music in the NDP could well have been brought into Zouk and danced to by the masses.

Even the entire medley of old Singapore songs (Stand Up for Singapore; One People, One Nation, One Singapore; We are Singapore) have turned techno. There's one "puk-za" beat dominating them all!

JRR Tolkien would probably write this about dance music today: ONE BEAT TO RULE THEM ALL.

The only nice thing about this year's NDP song is that Taufik sings parts with Rui En, makes it sound very interesting. Come on, what else can you write about in NDP songs, besides "hand in hand", "harmony", "stars and crescent and moon", "working together", "fellow men", "stand together/up"?

And shittification: how much do they spend on the fireworks? This is not the only instance where the fireworks are ignited. Each time they blow they blow people's hard-earned money into the sky. Fireworks should be corporately sponsored, and not based on income tax of the ordinary people.

But on the day who cares? The parades and mass displays are often designed to inject pride for about a month or so before people care more about putting food on the table, and cursing at the increasingly high cost of living.