Dead In The Water

Seems like the lion with no pants isn't the only one attracting attention after all. Here come Water Wally! Water what? I apologize if you happen to be the average Singaporean who doesn't find that name familiar because it is absolutely normal. You see, Water Wally is simply a water droplet with four limbs, two eyes, a broad smile and no nose. In short, it is the Public Utilities Board (PUB)'s mascot.

"Oh no, don't tell me he's going to resign and later claim that it is just a hoax?" you might ask. Nope. Water Wally is still as happy as the smile on his face his. He landed himself into hot water (pun totally intended) this week after a Youtube video featuring him went viral.

The clip's characters include a presumably fully-naked boy wearing spectacles in a shower, a dish-washing auntie who probably loves watching Taiwanese dramas , a young lady who seems to be into gardening and perhaps can talk to plants and a taxi uncle who adores gold watches. Oh, and there's that water droplet as well.

After Water wally appeared around them, the spasms begin. After a while, their bodies were controlled and an urge to do the Shower Dance overpowered them. After more than two minutes, you will realize that the shower boy's schoolmates were all under control by some sort of spell. I wonder if the teachers knew about it.

While most of us will agree that the dance is so bad that it is likely we forget about it after the video ends, the talking point about the clip is the shower boy. Water Wally, for unexplained reasons, was able and chose to peek at the boy showering.

Three possibilities. One. The boy did not lock the door and Water Wally's a pervert. Two. The door was locked and Water Wally's a pervert so he forced it open. Three. Water Wally had the key and he's a pervert. You get the picture? Erm, I mean the message, not the picture.

Clearly, this is another well-intentioned but poorly-executed campaign in Singapore. If anyone were to see such a huge water droplet smiling at them out of nowhere, they will most likely scream their lungs (heart, liver and kidneys) out. "You're some monster water droplet with a sick mind!" a person showering in real-life would go.

It is time the authorities stop making a fool of themselves with all these campaigns which people laugh at instead of learn from. And if you want to have a dance, at least have some decent choreography and genuine dancers.