Asian Fail. But in a good way.

So apparently, there's this new 'LOLLIPOP' phone out on the markets. I think it's from LG. I know this because I saw Yeli talking to Sandra about it on Facebook. But when I got to Hong Kong, I saw all these ads for a new LOLLIPOP phone and I was thinking, okay, there's a new phone out. It didn't occur to me that this new phone was that LOLLIPOP phone. But I didn't give it much thought because it is just a phone and also because I was distracted by their interactive feature. It was a bunch of balloons and streamers projected onto the station floor and you could kick the objects around like you would with the EyeToy. What it had to do with the phone, I didn't know.

So a few days passed and I was in Taiwan. I saw this ad on the TV for the LOLLIPOP phone and these Asians were singing and dancing and I thought, this is just a phone. Does there need to be such an outrageous ad for it? It didn't occur to me that this was the phone advertised in the MTR stations. But it did occur to me that the song they were singing was a song entitled 'Lollipop' and I for some reason recognised it although never having listened to the song. Confused, I wondered aloud whether there was some kind of connection and a friend in the room told me that 2NE1 and BigBang made a song together called 'Lollipop' and they got it changed to advertise this phone. Unimpressed and cringing because the song was horrible, I continued watching the TV.

A few days later, I was walking in Sham Shui Po (Ap Liu Street) in HK and I saw some store displaying the LOLLIPOP phone and I walked up to it to examine the phone. I concluded that it was remarkably thin but the button layout was crap. However, it STILL didn't occur to me that this phone was the LOLLIPOP phone, advertised by 2NE1 and BigBang, advertised in MTR stations and also advertised by Yeli and Sandra.

I finally made the connection today on a MTR train. The train had stopped and I looked out to see a LOLLIPOP ad. And then I saw one of the dudes and I thought, why does this man have his hair in a bun? It looks ridiculous! And then for some unknown reason, I assumed he was in some Asian boyband. And then my brain joined the pieces like some epic puzzle solver (HK makes your English all Asian and non-sensical) and so, I finally realised that the LOLLIPOP phone that Yeli mentioned to Sandra was the LOLLIPOP phone advertised by 2NE1 and BigBang and in MTR statoins. However, in hindsight, this was not really Asian Fail. It was more me just failing. Horribly.