February 18, 08:20 AM 
514 Chai Chee Lane 03-16, Singapore 469029 You know you've become big enough on the Internet the moment you get turned into a meme.
This is what has happened to the We Are Majulah video questioning Singaporeans if they would die for their country.
A parody video has been put out by Kim Huat, also known as mrbrown, just two days after the original video came out.
Although it is intentionally much shorter, which takes away the loftiness of the original by clocking in at only 1 minute 48 seconds, it still does an effective job reflecting on what makes Singaporeans, Singaporean.
This is largely because, if you don't understand the lexicon comprising of a mix of Singlish, imperfect English, local humour and strange sentence constructions, you don't qualify as being Singaporean enough.
And it renders the point about whether you would die for Singapore moot, because, basket, Singapore cannot make it already if you had to die.
Here you go:
Posted by mrbrown on Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Hello, this is Kim Huat, Singapore Number One Patriotic Fan.
I was overseas the other day and someone asked me: "Kim Huat, will you die for your country?"
I said: "Siao ah? Die for my country? My sergeant said you must make your enemy die for his country."
But when I came back, I thought: "It's true ah, we need something to unite us."
The French have a word, "Liberte", also "Kosong", and "French Fry".
Words like that to help unite the country.
What word do we Singaporeans have? I propose something that will make us have support, compassion, direction and justice.
"Basket."
That's right. I propose the word, "Basket".
Basket can be used to express support: "Eh referee kayu, basket."
Basket can be used to express compassion: "Eh my car kenna langgar just now."
"Basket..."
Basket can also be used to express direction: "Excuse me ah, this tissue paper where can I throw?"
"Basket."
And basket can be used to express justice and indignation: "Eh I ate the last pineapple tart."
"Basket..."
So, let us use basket in our everyday life.
Because, basket, we are Singaporean, okay?
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