national anthem in different version
in the light of the wee meng chee negaraku (national anthem) controversy, what do you think will happen if i post some different version of negaraku? should i? dare i? will the gomen made noise i insulted the national anthem? will i be charged under the national anthem act?
yesterday i received a sms from a friend on a different version of negaraku, using the haze occurrence in our country. well it made fun of the country and also of the king. hmm… so i shouldn’t post it up?
one thing i remember is that as a kid long long long time ago, we kids (the neighbourhood) like to rattle off this one version… just the 1st line actually, with the 2nd line to rhyme with the first line. well, it was in hokkien (it’s rather lame i know but as kids, it was just for fun).
negara ku
tunku cheh ka ku
what does it mean? simply ‘tunku went to jail’. it was added just because of the rhyme ‘tunk-ku’ and ‘ka-ku’ with ‘negara-ku’. (you know how kids are. can remember how we conjure up our own poem for the ‘la la li la tam pong’ too but that is another matter).
i don’t remember our parents reprimanding us not to say this because it will be us who will go to jail instead! haha!
*wondering should i post the ‘jerebu’ negaraku version*
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