Long Bun Long Lao

Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2007, 4:04 pm by yenjai

Some years back, I was posted to a district hospital in the middle of Pahang.

The population there, according to the folks in hospital, is approximately 20% orang asli, 79% Malay and 1% Chinese.

In fact, there was only one place to get Chinese food for dinner. (Basically you can see the whole chinese population sitting and eating beside you. Less than 4 tables of us)

In such a rural area, the favourite past time for them is fishing, TV and … karaoke!

Everywhere I went, I would see people telling that they like karaoke. To show that they appreciate my presence, they regularly choose a song for me to sing.

You know which song ALWAYS come up? The famous Long Bun Long Lao (???? made famous by Frances Yip ????

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Everywhere I go, I will end up with this song. Initially, I tell them I couldn’t really sing this song. I am given the are-you-abducted-by-alien-for-the-last-twenty-years look. Those Malay can really sing this song well, even though they can’t really read the words on screen.

Gosh. This song really represent us?

www.shkaihong.com/images/shanghaitan.mp3

15 Responses

  1. jonzz
    September 11th, 2007 | 8:43 pm

    LOL, that song Shanghai Beach…

    My friend has a parody of it.

  2. hanneng
    September 11th, 2007 | 9:28 pm

    yenjai, U only can sing one song meh? I tot u can sing quite ..

    that time scorpy and the gang went to your clinic to do the recording ..

  3. yenjai
    September 11th, 2007 | 9:52 pm

    jonzz Your friend will not be the only one ^-^

    hanneng My singing … I would say … fair.
    But this is not a song for male, thus I don’t particularly like to sing it in karaoke

  4. mashimaro83
    September 11th, 2007 | 11:42 pm

    Wow~You sing long bun long lao?
    Sure ownage! =D

  5. bushido
    September 12th, 2007 | 7:03 am

    Alice ?

    Poor Frances Yip will be scandalised

  6. yenjai
    September 12th, 2007 | 8:11 am

    mashimaro83 Yeah, you can say that again

    bushido Opps. Thanks for the correction

  7. eastcoastlife
    September 12th, 2007 | 11:35 am

    You can sing meh? kakaka….

  8. yenjai
    September 12th, 2007 | 11:56 am

    ECL This ECL, ??? ^-^

  9. Kok
    September 13th, 2007 | 3:21 am

    yenjai,
    believe it or not? I just heard this song from an angmor singer when I was volunteering at the Merdeka Ball here.

  10. yenjai
    September 13th, 2007 | 8:12 am

    kok haha. This song really is far reaching

  11. eve
    September 13th, 2007 | 11:21 am

    When I saw the title , I fast fast scroll down to see which restaurant selling what bun…cheyyy…. Apala lu…

  12. fibrate
    September 13th, 2007 | 11:46 am

    Yeah, apala lu :)

    I thought it would be a blogpost on siu long bao or something like that. Anyway, that’s the charm of working in a small district!

  13. yenjai
    September 13th, 2007 | 12:54 pm

    eve, fibrate Haha, you think I am chen22 meh?

  14. LM
    September 13th, 2007 | 2:07 pm

    Which part of Pahang is this? Got lots of jungle around?

  15. yenjai
    September 13th, 2007 | 3:12 pm

    LM Yes. Lots of jungle
    It is in Bandar Muadzam Shah

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