{"id":112,"date":"2005-12-06T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T02:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/wp\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T02:25:02","slug":"red-underpants-and-the-breasts-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/red-underpants-and-the-breasts-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Underpants and the Breasts of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore newspapers are like <a href=\"http:\/\/ww1.mid-day.com\/\">Mid-Day<\/a>. On steriods. They start at 40 pages, and weigh about a kilo, and look as if they&#8217;ve been written by earnest and well-meaning twelve year old students.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this dreamlike prose, from a <em>The New Paper<\/em> article on an awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSuperstitions and lucky charms were abound as the stars crossed their fingers for a chance to go home with one of the blown-glass trophies.<br \/>\nBryan, 34, credited his Best Comedy Performer and Top Ten Most Popular Male Artiste wins to his red underwear.<br \/>\nHe even yanked out the top part of his red underwear from underneath his pants to show reporters backstage.<br \/>\nA gleeful Bryan said: &#8220;My fengshui adviser called me up this morning to tell me that I must wear red underwear because red is my lucky colour today. So I rushed down to Hereen to specially buy a pair. He also said I should visit someone in the east, so I went all the way back to the east to my sister&#8217;s home, changed into the red underwear, before heading here (to MediaCorp).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yifeng thought her red hair- which she had dyed just that morning- could have brought her luck.<br \/>\nAnd of course, Kym helped too.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve never won anything in my life, not in any contest whatsoever, but Kym came to me this morning, and grabbed my breasts saying that she was passing all her &#8216;power&#8217; to me,&#8221; said Yifeng.<br \/>\n&#8220;I must really thank her. If not for her deliberately playing bimbo all the time, how can I show off my smarts?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore newspapers are like Mid-Day. On steriods. They start at 40 pages, and weigh about a kilo, and look as if they&#8217;ve been written by earnest and well-meaning twelve year old students. Check out this dreamlike prose, from a The New Paper article on an awards ceremony. Superstitions and lucky charms were abound as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-msm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-1O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}