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I have been at rehearsals for the past week for Kumar’s show, and I speak for everyone when I say we are having damn a lot of fun, can?

It’s also been a real privilege to be the writer for this show, because the stuff that Kumar’s been spewing during our workshops has been just revelation after revelation – about his remarkable life and his complicated family, and about being Indian in Singapore.

Sometimes its hard to tell if Kumar’s being serious or not – like when he asks me as he flips through the script, “Ben, you have all these Indian jokes, and then got the Malay one, and one Eurasian one, but don’t have Chinese racist joke. Why ah?”

Yanked my chain good.

I wish someone else would come, watch rehearsals and write about how much of a kickass show this is going to be, because, you know, if the writer tells you hisself, it’s kinda lame.

There is so much life in Kumar’s retelling of his life’s experiences that writing them down has been a real joy, with anecdotes and punches jumping off the pages and onto the rehearsal stage.

So, I’ve asked the producers for a pair of tickets to give away here. All you need to do is answer this question correctly, and the person that gives the first correct answer wins.

Q: What was Kumar’s vocation in national service?

Kumar: Stripped Bare & Standing Up
Venue: Esplanade Theatre
Dates: 19 – 21 March 2009
Tickets (selling really fast): Sistic

Comments

  • bogues
    combat signaller
  • Tobey
    MDC?
  • aftaab
    Reconnaissance !

    my last shot at getting the ticket..
  • Nah, I was recce, not Kumar.
  • onewheel
    Signaler?
  • Juzme
    Clerk?
  • Commando Section Leader
  • taz
    infantry batallion!
  • ben
    combat engineer! hahaha...

    random guesses.
  • rick
    vocation - medic?
  • Gonna check it out - Kumar rocks, and I have no idea what his vocation is... storeman, perhaps?
  • nick
    Artiste in MDC
  • Carmen
    Guards?
  • Driver
  • C
    infantry - 6sir?
  • catyeo
    You mean, he DID National Service??! Need to meh?!
  • Yes, he served his country, and finished his reservist cycle too.
  • nal
    dunno lah. Anyway, I buy ticket already!
    But I volunteer to attend at least one rehearsal and write about how kickass I know this is gonna be!
  • But good also lah, buy early. Tix flying off like mad. Wait I ask if
    can accommodate your request.
  • COMMANDO!
  • Close!
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