NDP Copycat Blooper

They say a picture is worth a thousand words but they never said it had to be a thousand kind words.

No one thought that Singaporeans might have seen this very creative Japanese ad in support of their Children's Foundation before they chose to copy it for our National Day Parade 2008's theme video. 

Lucky we have eagle-eyed netizens (like STOMPer Daniel) to point this out.

Perhaps now you will have a greater appreciation for our nation building efforts based, unfortunately on plagiarism.

Here's the original Japanese ad

Our defining NDP 2008 video

And you thought that running a campaign to find an alternative name for Marina Bay only to end up retaining the original was a poorly conceived effort. Heh.