i love watching beer ads, but the only time i ever get to watch any these days is when I’m in KL and frequenting the cinema as i usually do. theaters here don’t screen beer ads at all, so i was rather surprised that most of my friends here in the US have watched the below Guinness ad, but i haven’t.

it’s so cute! the part where the dog looks at the pint as it slides past him absolutely cracked me up. can’t believe i’ve not watched it before, but i guess i just don’t watch as much TV as my American friends, who are almost always watching some sport or reality show on TV. (in other news, i just went to watch my first baseball game this weekend! it was mucho fun)

my friend Isa was visiting NYC from California together with his handheld camcorder some time ago, and we were talking about this ad and how we should best film our response to it. i was really excited because there are so many wonderfully classic Irish bars in New York that i could take Isa to, and at the same time use that as a backdrop for our response. so we sat down together at the King’s Head, an Irish pub in East Village, to come up with some new video ideas since obviously we can’t slide a pint of Guinness all across NYC to some ballsy corporate guy!

we sat down to discuss different ideas for about 45 minutes, and most of those ideas involved other people in the bar. so the idea we were going to stick with was me chatting up random guys in the bar and asking them to buy me a pint of Guinness. hahaha cos fortune favours the bold mah!!! but as we were planning out the takes, people kept leaving the bar. Isa kept reminding me of the fact that eventually there would be no one left to approach for pints, but I brushed it off la, stupidly thinking that it was a Friday night (it was actually a Thursday night) and that more people would keep coming in. unfortunately no one did, so we had to scrap that idea, and Isa eventually had to be both principal photographer and leading man :P

here’s the fruit of our labour!:

DISCLAIMER: The (very hot) bartender used the one-part pour method to pour the pint, but her boyfriend later showed us how to do it the two part pour way, which is supposed to be the right method to achieve a perfect Guinness pint. We don’t have that on video, though we did come away with a photo of his UPenn tattoo on his groin…

haha please watch it and give us your comments! every time I watch our video, I laugh so much (probably more than the video deserves) cos of all the stupid inside jokes that came with the filming. like how we kept spilling the Guinness all over the bartop each time we tried to slide the pint across the bar. and also Isa’s funny expression as he’s waiting for the Guinness to come to him. and also the overtly seductive mood as the bartender pours the pint…

at the end of the day we had to pay for the Guinnesses we spilt (and drank, on the job). damn. we should have worked faster so that we could get all those free pints from random strangers… though i doubt that would have worked at all actually, because I am a complete failure at acting, and would likely have dissolved into giggles each time i approach someone. this is a practice take of me acting annoyed when some big black guy stepped in to intercept MY Guinness. we eventually didn’t use that footage, even though it took me so long to practice my annoyed face without laughing:

i’m not really much of a drinker, but i’m fast becoming a fan of Guinness! it’s so smooth and delicious, and i could easily finish the pints that we bought for this filming without feeling queasy. or turning tomato-red as i often do after just one shot of anything. Lou Paeng, you would be proud! and so would Ah Ma, who is long gone and chilling out in heaven, but so ardent a fan of Guinness that we always have to bring 3 cans of stout to her grave on Cheng Meng, otherwise the coin flip would tell us that she’s not happy. wtf.