“Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo” is coming to Singapore soon with HBO’s new series launching in September. And a few bloggers were invited down to the HBO Asia office to have a gander around and BOY oh BOY. (@ the HBO people who may be reading my blog, I LOVE TV, am willing to work very hard, will provide entertainment, speak 2 and a half languages, and am going to Uni soon, So if there’re any summer internships available, I will FLY back to work @ your office! Hehe.)

The HBO office as cool as it was; was definately not as cool as watching Flight of the Conchords, one of the first few people in Singapore to catch the 2nd and 3rd Episodes of my favourite thing to come out of New Zealand since … well something Kiwi. The TV shows are a delight at half an hour long and the humour is classically off the wall with a Conchords’ song interspersed into one of their episodes. Their exploits are realistic to some extent but you don’t really have groupies trying to get you in a human sandwich very often. Or your camera phone actually being a film camera being stuck onto the back of a cellphone. These and all such classic elements of Conchord humour really makes this show a rare but awesome find. (more…)

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Getting tagged is one of the blog things that I’ve never had done to me and, this, my first tag I promise to make special. I promise that you will be entertained with my answers and I promise to answer them as truthfully as my sense of humour and hunger allows. This tag was thrown at me via the Flight of the Conchords blog in Singapore by Yinqi! Many thanks and I cannot wait for tonight’s event! *CAMWHORE TIME*!

Ep 1: Jemaine attends Dave’s party and scores a date with a hot chick, only to realise she’s Bret’s ex. Would you go out with your best friend’s ex?

This question is interesting. But the short answer for me is No. Unequivocably No. He’s my best friend, and I would never do anything to ruin what we have. The long answer though is probably more, well, if she was a short term GF, then I’d probably just ask for permission and then go for it if he was cool. If he isn’t then, I’ll just maybe take her out a couple of times and then let her down easy. Ok maybe more than a couple of times. Ok maybe marry her. Ok I’ve just destroyed my original argument. Dammit.

Ep 2: Faced with the prospect of a dwindling cashflow, Bret is forced to hold signs (“Hot Dogs”) at a busy NYC street corner. What was your worst temp job experience?

I’m currently in it. “Temping” for two years at this government agency. The pay’s low, there is no dignity and job satisfaction is non-existant.

Ep 3: Bret loses Jemaine’s trust after Bret abandons him when they get mugged. Would you leave your best friend in the lurch when confronted by parang-wielding Ah Bengs?

I probably wouldn’t? But honestly I won’t know until other parts of this story are filled in. I.e. Am I holding something that would make an effective weapon? Am I with a small or big guy? Can I make use of my friend as a weapon? *ala the Jackie Chan movies* Assuming yes to all these questions, then YES of course I’d stay and defeat the scourge of Singaporean streets, the Parang-Wielding Ah-Beng. Of course, if there are any No-es then the probability of me staying reduces drastically. I’m such a fairweather friend.

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