16/07/2000. It's November 1997, and Scottish-born Esra Tasasiz is living in Brussels, holding down a full-time job and hanging around a studio, singing on house records in her spare time. One day, a mutual friend introduces her to Pierre Mussche, Ernst Meinrath and Renaud Charlier, collectively known as Musicom - three professional studio types, crafting tracks of cool electronic ambience and atmospheric, orchestral hip-hop, as soundtracks for adverts and films. Pierre, Ernst
Santa returns from London. He calls his wife and asks her, "Do I look like a foreigner?" She says no. The answer angers him. "Look carefully, do I look like a foreigner?" She again replies in the negative. By now the Santa is fuming. He yells: "Come close and see, do I look like a foreigner?" The wife says: "No." The Santa who is seething with rage says: "All those women in London were fools. Every time I went out they would say: 'Look a foreigner'."
One day in a language school in Australia. Teacher: "All right, now I'd like you to make a sentence using the words GREEN, PINK and YELLOW. Who'd like to try?" A student raised his hand. It was Kukoya from Japan. Kukoya: "Early this morning, I looked out the window, I saw the GREEN grass and PINK roses in the garden. I went outside and I feel the warm YELLOW sunlight around me." Teacher: "Not bad. Okay, who's next?" Another student raised his hand. It was Weng from Singapore. Weng: "I try! I try. Can aaah?" Teacher "No, no, not you" Weng: "Aaaiiyaaa... let me try lah... I can do lah... you think I'm stupid meeeh..?" Teacher: "Okay.. go ahead" Weng: "This morning I heard the phone GREEEEEN...GREEEEEN... I PINK it up and I said YELLOOOOW?"