So here’s a list of mostly Malay songs I hope the “Die Hard” Generation as I would like to call it, can sing to.

I need to get a loudhailer.

Anak Singapura
To be sung before/at the start of the game
Same tune as “Ekor Harimau Malaya” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2b4X5NFKGo

Anak Singapura, satu hati satu suara x2
Kami turun ke Jalan Besar
Satu jiwa sokong Singapura
Lawan-nya, dibunuh saja

Darah
To be sung before/at the start of the game
Refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkMrpW1owGM

Hari ini aku datang keranamu
Hari ini jiwa hati kita satu
Darah engkau darah aku jadi satu
Singapura pasti slalu dihatiku…..
Oooo ooooooo ooooooo ooooooooooo (3x)
Selamanya Singapura dihatiku
La la la la la la la la la (3x)
Selamanya Singapura dihatiku

Enjit-enjit semut
Should be sung when an opponent player goes down injured
Refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8va7lvRFp4&feature=related

Enjit-enjit semut
Siapa sakit boleh balik
Enjit-enjit semut
Siapa sakit boleh balik
Enjit-enjit semut
Siapa sakit boleh balik
Enjit-enjit semut
Siapa sakit boleh balik

Majulah!
Can be sung anytime especially when the team seems lacklustre
Refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwdN3INcMQ&feature=related or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Aax44FR2I

Ole ole! Ole ole! Ole ole! Ole ole! Ole ole! (x2)

Majulah!
Singapura!
Kuatkan lah semangat bersatu

Jangan takut!
Jangan risau!
Kami tetap akan menyokongmu.

Ole ole! Ole ole! Ole ole! Ole ole! Ole ole! (x2)

Majulah!
Singapura!
Berjuanglah Singapura!

Tanah Tumpah Darahku
To be sung anytime. Many thanks to Hougang Hools.
Refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Hz2twRMEY

Singapura
Engkau tetap dihatiku
Singapura
Tunjuk Kan Semangat Jitu!

Isi Kan Perluru Mu
Hancur Kan Lawan Mu!
Singapura
Tanah Tumpah Darahku!

Sumpah Pendekar Kita
Can be sung anytime especially before and after games.
Based from the evergreen Malaysian army song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMeaQoEGPGc

Inilah barisan kita
Yang ikhlas berjuang
Siap sedia berkorban
Untuk ibu pertiwi

Sebelum kita berjaya
Jangan harap kami pulang
Inilah sumpah pendekar kita
Menuju medan bakti

Andai kata kami gugur semua
Taburlah bunga di atas pusara
Kami mohon doa
Singapura berjaya

Semboyan telah berbunyi
Menuju medan bakti

This is Jalan Besar
Just chant repeatedly until pancit
Based on “This is Man United!” chant

This is Jalan Besar!
This is Jalan Besar!
This is Jalan Besar!
This is Jalan Besar!
This is Jalan Besar!
This is Jalan Besar!

Glory Glory Singapura
Oh you know this song

Glory Glory Singapura
Glory Glory Singapura
Glory Glory Singapura
As the Lions Go Marching On!
LIONS!

Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh
Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh
LIONS!

S . I . N . G . A
Sing when bored
Based on the evergreen C.I.N.T.A Malay rock song

S.I.N.G.Apura kita
Satu Suara
S.I.N.G.A Majulah
Untuk Bangsa
Dan Negara!
LIONS!

We love Shahril, we do
To be sung after scoring a goal

We love Shahril
We do
We love Shahril
We dooooo
Shahril Ishak We Love You!

We love you
Based on Sister Act song
Refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7UfSbASyrQ

Weeeeee love you, We love you, We love you
And everywhere we follow, we follow, we follow
Coz we support our Lions, our Lions, our Lions
Majulah Singapura, Majulah! Majulah!

Ooooh Ooooh Oooh
Ooooh Ooooh Oooh
Ooooh Ooooh Oooh

Only One Singapura
To the tune of Guantanamera

There’s only one Singapura!
One Singapuuuraaahhh!
One Singapuuuraaahhh!
Champions of Malayyysssiiaaa!

24
Gloat at the other teams we won 24 Malaysia Cups
To the tune of Anak Singapura (the first song)

Dua-puluh empat Piala Malaysia (2x)
Kami turun ke padang lawan
Tiada takut tiada gentar
Menangilah dua puluh lima!

Ooooh Ooohh Oooh Ooh Oooh
We are the one, We are the Champions
We will always be number one!
LIONS!

Today, Singapore marks its return to the Malaysian top leagues and historical Malaysia Cup. Many fans, including myself, have spoken to FAS president Zainudin Nordin, to return to Malaysian competitions in order to improve the state of local football. My joy to the eventual return couldn’t be any greater. I am overjoyed, I bought a pair of grandstand season tickets to watch the Lions Malaysian Super League games.

Unfortunately, this return has been criticized by many quarters of local fans, especially those who are supportive of the S-League. For many of them, this return is seen as a regressive step towards the development of Singapore football, as if to suggest that the neighbour’s football league is of a lower quality than ours.

The same set of fans certainly cannot decide if this experiment will succeed or blow up in the face of the FAS. It seems that some may be eager that we forget about Malaysia and refocus on our only professional football league to achieve greater heights.

I call this the Singaporean Malaysia Cup disconnect syndrome.

Historical Argument

It has been 17 years since Singapore left the Malaysia Cup, the oldest football tournament in Asia, of which Singapore played the first edition and defeated Selangor 2-1. It was the foundation of football in then-Malaya, where 2 bitter rivals would lock horns for the next 70 years.

For the majority of those years, Singapore, administered as part of the Straits Settlements together with Malacca and Penang, was part of the British Protectorate of Malaya, a territory which Singapore residents, were not alien to. The Malaysia Cup was conceived during a time when Singapore was never seen as another country, and our opponents were a state of the Malayan peninsula, who share the same struggles of colonialism as us.

One must understand that Malaysian state football associations are not clubs. They’re of the same status as the Football Association of Singapore. They administer football at the state level, many times bigger than the size of Singapore.

To imply that a country, the size of Singapore should not play in a league against teams in a state, many times our size would be arrogant and ignorant of the long history Singapore has had in the Malaysian competitions. That is why we’ve maintained friendly, competitive ties with our brothers across the international border, via the Sultan of Selangor Cup, and the Royal Malay Cup, a Malaysia Cup-like competition for state teams, of which Singapore is represented by the Singapore Malays Football Club, which we’ve dominated as much as Selangor as the competition shared players from the main squad.

Just because we have separated from Malaysia politically, does not mean we should sever all ties with our neighbours over differences between our governments. The Malaysia Cup was both a bond and rivalry that Malaysian states, former and current, share.

When we played in the Malaysia Cup, Singapore football was very exciting. People cared about grassroots football. The papers covered even the Semi-Professional Premier League, and constituency sports tournaments. We would go down to watch kampong football for free when our neighbors or family are representing their towns or clubs. There was even a competitive Business Houses league which FAS administered where local companies participated and old boys from the national team retired to playing for their employers.

This nostalgic, historical tournament was the lifeblood of the nation. It is not a foreign tournament. It has always been a part and parcel of our Singapore DNA. To refute that is akin to denying Singapore’s deep roots and history with Malaysia.

Quality Argument

Some fans suggest that returning to the Malaysia Cup is a regressive step. It doesn’t improve the national team. I feel that this premise is flawed. When Singapore was playing in the Malaysian tournaments, the team played high-impact matches regularly. The team was kept together for many seasons. This was what gave the Singapore team match fitness when it participated in international tournaments. This was also what both Malaysia and Singapore have been doing by keeping the youth squads compete in a league for several seasons to improve their football.

The LionsXII is mostly an under-23 side. It is a developmental team, and the same line of argument applies. It will improve the match fitness of these players.

These fans argue that the way to improve our national team is by improving the S-League, and that going back to the Malaysia Cup is sending the wrong signal by ignoring our local league. I feel that these fans have forgotten that it is a 2-way deal. The Malaysian Harimau Muda, the u-23 national team, who are the current 2-time back to back SEA Games Champion, that also forms the bulk of the current AFF Cup winning squad is participating in the S-League. I don’t think that this is ignoring the local league. I find this argument puzzling when the FAS has increased the number of teams playing and included 2 neighbouring teams which are proven quality.

Because of the Malaysia Cup buzz surrounding the LionsXII, the Harimau Muda is certain to pull in the crowds for the S-League especially against established clubs like Geylang United, Tampines Rovers, and even the Courts Young Lions.

Conclusion

The Malaysia Cup Disconnect Syndrome exists due to the long hiatus of Singapore from its original motherland. Leaving the Malaysia Cup abruptly, with an arrogant mind to build a premature S-League was a poorly conceived one. Especially when the Asian Financial Crisis took its toll in local football resulting in a mass exodus of talent driven away by unachieved expectations and prolonged low wages.

With its re-entry, Singapore football would only improve. We cannot do this alone. If we are to make it some day to the World Cup, Singapore must realize that it’s neighbours can help them and we should create a win-win situation like the new government of both nations have in recent years to achieve a long-lasting, mutually beneficial bilateral relationship, burying old prejudices and arguments, and building a new Malaysia and Singapore of the future.

Majulah!

Ladies and Gentlemen

Esteemed guests, from Singapore and overseas.

Thank you very much for helping us make history. You are the first attendees to Singapore’s inaugural WordCamp.

Before I begin, I would like you to spend a moment asking yourselves this question. Why are you here? What are you doing right now? Are you blogging? Updating your Facebook? Sending a tweet? Checking in? What are you doing?

And now my presentation.

We are probably the last in the developed Southeast Asia to host a WordCamp. Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines have held one as early as 2009 and I understand that the communities there have continually organized them on an almost annual basis. My colleagues and I have visited them since 2010. And we are very impressed with the energy, spirit and vigor of the the people we’ve met in the region who are very passionate about something as geeky as a few thousand lines of code. This creation my friends, have not only touched the lives of software developers, but, it has also, and in great depths, touched the lives of non-developers. It has, in absolute terms, literally changed the world.

The concept of social media that has been buzzing around for the past couple of years in Singapore, is still something that many locals, even people who claim to be practitioners have yet to fully understand. It is not Facebook, or Twitter, or 4Square or any of these amazing inventions that is the basis or epitome of social media.

No. It is actually, blogging. And WordPress is Blogging. It is the most installed blogging platform in the universe. It is the reason why social media even exists.

You see, Facebook cannot survive without people sharing something. It may be a picture of your dinner, or a funny video of your friend playing a fool. And these contents, originate from other places outside of Facebook, many of which come from blogs especially those powered by WordPress.

Just imagine if MrBrown didn’t exist. Or if The Online Citizen didn’t exist. Or if sites like Yesterday.sg or Remembering Singapore didn’t exist? In fact the NDP 2011 site was actually powered by WordPress.

Facebook would not be as lively if not for content. And true to its word, Content is King.

Here at the Singapore WordPress User Group, we tried for the past couple of years, organized WordPress Users meetups with varying success. Our mission is simple. We want to advocate, the use of WordPress to the masses. Because in reality, it is not the developers that are kings. It is the users. And the users use WordPress in ways which Automattic themselves did not imagine.

People use WordPress beyond just blogging. They use it as a CMS, to run a website, for their business, churches, mosques, etc. The use it as a storefront for their lingerie business. They use it as a social network for bike gangs. They use it to change regimes, entrench regimes, seek dialogue, stalk celebrities, change the world.

The fact is this. Blogging used to be seen by people older than us, as a teenage past-time to rant and seek attention from the world wide web. Well, the teenager has grown up. My posting on how much I hate my life is on tumblr, not WordPress. Ok. maybe sometimes I FML on Facebook.

So why is blogging so darn important? It is the only way, a message can be transmitted in full, way over 140 characters, and allow people to leave comments, debate, respond to an idea. Blogging is the only way to convey an idea, without losing context, nuance, and feel.

It is the earliest form of social media. The more you write, the more people find your postings credible, then the more people you influence. It is the social network 0.1 and Facebook or Twitter, still needs blogging as its fuel.

Developers today need to understand that their role in the world is more than just thumping on a keyboard and producing nyancats or LOLcats.

They have the power to change the world, by putting amazing software into the hands of people, who can bear influence on citizens.

It is exactly open source software like WordPress that propelled Obama into power, that helped the Workers Party to win Aljunied. That allowed Dr Mahathir to still have a say in Malaysian politics.

And that is why, the WPUG.sg wants to build a collaborative network across the Southeast Asian region. so that people in this region, can develop into a society, that finally understands one another. I’m a Singaporean. I happen to be Malay. And it seems that some of my fellow countrymen, have no idea what Islam means, and what a Malay is. Maybe, bloggers like you can counter seditious remarks, with postings of understanding, peace and tolerance. Maybe Singaporeans can finally understand their history better if more blogs like “RememberingSingapore” or “10 years before Merdeka” sprout out.

Just imagine how the rest of Southeast Asia could grow, if we show them how. The interest is huge.

The numbers are growing.

That’s what we do at WPUG.sg. We encourage anyone and everyone to come to our meetups, and learn how to use WordPress in ways they never thought about.

My vision is to create a formal network of WPUG all over Asia. We have started this initiative via Facebook, and created the WordPress User Network Asia, so that Asians can share with each other and learn from one another. Whether it be how to use a plugin to show your most popular posts, or what php code to write in order to get your meta fields, or showcase a creative use of WordPress like Yahya’s Singanista.com

It is a place for Developers and Users to engage, to express how they hate each other, or how much they love each other, a place to learn how to make their sites work the way they intended, a place where the next idea could emerge to change the world.

I’m betting my last dollar, that the next big thing, will come from Asia. And maybe, that idea was written as a thought on WordPress, and shared like wildfire on social networks like Facebook.

So, if you’re from overseas, and you want be part of this network, just join the Facebook page, or if you’re local, sign-up as a member of WPUG.sg. We will be organizing meetups, and if the demand is good, we will organize programs like “WordPress for newbies”, or arrange tie-ups with other groups like the PHP group, Web Standards group, GovCamp, BarCamp. And if you want to help, send me an email, and we can build this network in your country.

So are you just blogging? Or are you really changing the world?

The pen is mightier than the sword. And the keyboard, my dear developers, is way more awesome than an M16.

Thank you.

The Hitler scene is from a movie called “Downfall”, weeks before Hitler shot himself in the head. Hitler was a fiery speaker that evoked an entire nation to expel Jews from its nation and believed that the Aryan race is the purest race on earth. He does not tolerate Jews and to a lesser extent homosexuals.

Jobs was rumoured to have died a few years ago, shortly before a WWDC event. He made a grand entrance and remarked how “the news of his death has been greatly exaggerated”. He was born to a half-Arab/Persian (Aryan) Syrian-Muslim father and white mother. In his time at Apple, he was known to be tyrannic towards developers, and has a strong, stubborn, micro-management style. At his passing, Apple is the most highly valued tech company in the world.

Tim Cook is the new Apple CEO, and happens to be a homosexual. He was listed as one of the most inspiring LGBT business persons in America in an LGBT magazine. He has consistently, without failure, ran the day-to-day operations of Apple, during Steve’s absence.

I decided to mesh these historical details and facts into this work of art, and I hope you enjoy it.

Those who know me, especially my siblings, would know the destructive nature when my heart was crushed before, many years back. It took a long time coming for me to find the one true love who has captured my heart 4 years back. And despite the trials and tribulations we have faced together, of the many challengers for her or me that came by, eventually, we always stay together.

Each one that came was a bigger test than the last. And I let Allah decide if this was for me. When I was astray, I know that she had every reason to leave me. Very good reasons to, and at the end of the day, she still came back. It was my last test and I have tempted fate at least 3 times just to ensure that this is what Allah has in store for me.

Every time, she came back.

It was then that I realised, and felt his blessings and grace, that this is what He has chosen for me. I want her, I really do. I love her extremely. And I took the courage to tempt fate, at the risk of a broken heart, and she came back.

When faced with challenges that I did not create and control, I persevered for her. She asked me to promise that I would. And yet, despite the challengers that had the audacity to challenge my fate with her, she still chose me.

Sayang, I dedicate this to you.

Mohabbatein of a star and her sky

4 summers ago, a breath of fresh air whizzed past
The branches rustle and the birds sing
It made me smile alas
And my heart a-glowing

If I could describe how I feel
Or figure what made me love her
I can only say that it was God’s will
That joined us together

An unexpected twist of fate,
God willed and I took it by the scruff
Finally finding my soulmate
Someone I want who reciprocated my love

You, my joy who made me tear
Whose fragance like milk and frangipani
Your heart I conquer
The desire of men a-many

4 summers long, I spent with you
Alive my senses feel
Your love for me forever true
No man shall ever steal

Jaan. Your heart cures when I’m here
Joy together. Miserable apart.
Praise Allah, the Creator
Alhamdulillah for the Mohabbat

My children who will one day read this. When you grow up, remember how much I love your mother and how much she loves me. Never find someone whose love cannot match the one I hold for your mother. And love as much as your mother does for me.