baby, what's in that satchel?

wee hoo it's national day in singapore! if you want to give a gift to singapore, you may go here. but i do suggest having a sickbag handy. sheepman has nice national day vid you may like to check out.

also, since you know it's national day and we're away in another country *koff*quitters*koff* i was just thinking about the motherland and wondering why she calls herself the republic of singapore. technically she is, i mean there's elections but then most of those are walkovers and then we all know who's going to win so it's not really a competition (just like australia at the cricket), it's just a chance to wave their balls at the opposition and laugh. but then also it's not entirely an oligarchy because two people from the same family don't really count right? but perhaps this is only the beginning of an era. and maybe you can say dictatorship but that word is completely taboo and if i even say the word "tartar" i'm pretty sure somebody will threaten my family. so how? there's not an exact word to describe the state of government right now, so i'm creating one: repolitatorship. the repolitatorship of singapore. all in the spirit of combining 2 - or even 3 ! - names to indicate a union! brangelina, spederline, infotainment, edutainment, REPOLITATORSHIP! i think it has a certain ring to it.

it's not that singapore necessarily needs to be called a republic of something something because everyone just says "singapore" anyway. but maybe having an officially long long name helps cover up the fact that the country is a small small place? and "repolitatorship" has 6 whole letters over "republic", not to mention twice as many syllables.

although judging by some of the other countries on the list of republics, maybe people know it's all kind of a sham .. afterall it's all just words anyway right?