Molly the Singapore Hero?

(Written by Josef, hubby of Molly)

I was checking out some of the websites that are linking to WeAreWonderWomen.com last night until I chanced upon this entry by a young man named Yee Meng.

I couldn’t help but laugh after reading it. It’s really funny.

Ok here’s the gist of the entry. Yee Meng is assigned to shoot a video based on the theme “Singapore’s Hero”, to be submitted for a National Day Student’s Video Competition. And he is making Molly the hero of his video.

He is blogging about it to announce it to his friends and at the same time doing an “open casting” for volunteers to act in his video. Apparently, he is planning to shoot a mock re-enactment of young women in similar condition “who are encouraged and motivated by Molly to be strong”.

Well, I did a check on the said competition and this is what I found out:

“The theme for the 2008 competition is “Celebrating Singapore’s Heroes”.
Who are these heroes? They can be war heroes or people who have created in-roads or contributed significantly in specialised fields like medicine, science, education and the arts. They can also be ordinary Singaporeans who have done extraordinary things which not many people might know about. What makes a hero? Who are Singapore’s heroes? Among them, who are your heroes? Share it with us!”

The deadline is one week away so I’m not sure if Yee Meng can get his video done up in time. I hope he does. And I thank him for regarding Molly as a hero. But it will be so funny to see a video of Molly as a Singapore Hero, up against other possible videos of real heroes like War Heroine Elizabeth Choy, or MM Lee, the man who led Singapore to Independence.

I believe Molly will find this hilarious too:)