Advertorial: Dove GoFresh

It’s a pity my stay-in reservist days are over (right, MINDEF?), because this Dove GoFresh Shower Gel would’ve come in real handy.

I might have men­tioned in many Army story-tellings about how my reservist mates, when we’re done with field train­ing, come back to bar­racks all mud­died and sweaty and how we con­tem­plate with great antic­i­pa­tion the lux­ury of a cold shower after we’re done clean­ing our two dozen weapons that we’ve regret­ted fir­ing so much ammu­ni­tion from, because, as those in the know will tell you, the more you shoot, the dirt­ier the parts get and why can’t they invent a rifle that cleans itself dammit?

It is at this point that the reservists in the bar­rack bunk take out all man­ner of toi­letries from their cup­boards, and we start to dis­cuss the mer­its of the dif­fer­ent stuff we use because as gung-ho com­bat armoured troop­ers who are at our country’s beck and call, we need to smell nice and feel clean.

A typ­i­cal con­ver­sa­tion while we’re re-assembling our weapons might go like this:

M203 Grenadier / Citibank Per­sonal Banker: “Eh, 你这个 shower gel 好用吗？

Sec­tion Auto­matic Weapon Gun­ner / Sec­ondary School Teacher: “我用是好用啦。你 try æ¥çœ‹å’¯ã€‚“

M203 Grenadier / Citibank Per­sonal Banker: “OK, thanks ah.”

Sec­tion Auto­matic Weapon Gun­ner / Sec­ondary School Teacher : “你不要把他用到完 啊， 不然我把这个 five-piece rod 放在你的 backside!”

It’s a good thing I didn’t get that kind of threat from the nice peo­ple at Dove, who’ve very kindly given me a whole (small) bot­tle of Green Tea and Cucum­ber scented Dove GoFresh for me to 用到完 till my heart’s content.

I like nice-smelling things that make me clean at the same time. And while pre­vi­ously, like many of my reservist mates, I used to be a plain soap and water kinda guy, age and dry skin has pushed me to use slightly more del­i­cate prod­ucts, and while I’m not exactly a dis­cern­ing fella when it comes to choos­ing these things, I do like soaps that mois­tur­ize slightly with­out mak­ing me feel as if I’ve acci­den­tally washed myself with hair conditioner.

And as for singing in the shower, well, just like every­one else, the odd reservist does belt it out for the whole pla­toon to hear, only it’s not appre­ci­ated as much – and that’s under­stand­able when there’s only 6 shower stalls to share between 50 guys, and there’s a queue of troop­ers in tow­els wait­ing their turn.

Instead of “Encore”, you’ll prob­a­bly hear some­thing like “Oi! One verse enough, no need to sing the cho­rus two times! Hurry up! 不然我放 five piece rod 在你的 backside!”

If you do need a more appre­cia­tive audi­ence (apart from your­self or your loved one) when you sing in the shower, you might want to sign up for Dove’s gofresh ShowerOK! Com­pe­ti­tion, to be held from 31 July till 8 August at Vivo City.

Your audi­ence can then vote for you on www.doveshowerok.com, where your recorded per­for­mances are uploaded, and they might win an iPod Touch for their efforts as well.

And if you sing and win, you stand a chance of win­ning a pri­vate yacht party “fit for a ShowerOK star!”

So get down there on those days between 12 and 8pm, and get your ques­tions answered.

“What ques­tions?”, you may well ask. Well, such as, “Am I really a good singer, or is my wife just humour­ing me?”, and, “Are they going to be totally nekkid at VivoC­ity in front of thou­sands of people?”