mossadance

wah, so much thoughts after reading steph's blog - commenting on Mine. it's exactly what i want. brain-friction. disclaimer: this is not to swell up steph's ego further, but, i do commend appropriately. most of the time.

1st mistake steph made - im not sure about the headlines. what i was saying was what they were shouting out. they were shouting out like 'don't let the straits times deceive you...' blahblah. evidently, steph was too quick to register the words i spoke in another category, cos of excitment maybe. impulse.

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thinking back, i was thinking it hurts me to see them having to sell a copy at $2 each. cannot even afford free distribution. all the more i might see this as charity - towards liberating the political scene in Singapore. i hope people agree/see/Notice that TST is more or less the only 'real' newspaper around. i mean, after the NKF saga, it should be apparent. btw, i think Durai did not deserve such harsh criticisms. for many reasons. just to list down a few i)at a most basic level, the public shld understand that his pay has to be endorsed/approved by the company, the board. so it's not entirely his fault. ii)not that quantity washes over his deed but, basically, many charity organisations are corrupted. sometimes it's apparent to the naked eye. sometimes, it is not. but what is unseen exists. iii)TT Durai has done a gd job! in terms of skill and devotion, he's a pretty gd coporate leader. if we have demerits, roll out the credits.

maybe it stems from sympathy as well - seeing him bashed in parliament. what's the use of all those emotive words, sprinkle a handful to spice up ur speech maybe, but his future is evidently quite doomed locally. he's been branded a cheat, a con, almost criminal. it's informal exile ready. second, i agree with steph. the sha1yi1jing2bai3 policy is a lil heavy handed. at the end of the day Singapore still feels...let me use a parallel

if we are birds used to living in a metal cage, a false sense of freedom/liberalisation would be like exchanging the metal cage for a netting. the holes are big, but u never get thru them. tian1 wang3 hui1 hui1, shu1 er2 bu2 lou4. no doubt, we shld feel grateful for any progress of this sort, but sometimes, it takes on a reverse effect - just like in inverse matrices. u just feel disheartened, breathless. even though those 'airholes' are so 'huge'.

if ms lee kim lan is still in rgs/if im still in contact with her- i bet u i will email and keep in contact with her. it's always interesting and valuable to have discussions with the older people. people who deny themselves such chances because they feel they are super-modernized are primitive in cognitive maturity i tell you.

anyways, about the JI thing in Indonesia. it's not so simple. such stuff is super tricky. of course, it can only be a name that does not stand for true Islam. but look. the name is not the issue. Who says it is? basically, JI does not operate by name! it teaches what's not true Islam, and it aims to operate under the name of Islam! so if anything is the main issue, it is not the name. just like in 1984 - i love the book by the way. names and words cannot take away the 'spirit'.

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oh, about 1984, i know the ending and im not finishing the book. it's too dystopic. just felt that reading would not safe Winston anyway. bleah. but the whole ideological theory behind it is. fabulously-weaved out. excellent workmanship. i like. the delivery blows my mind. superb. george orwell =] do i sound like a nerd.

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On to feminism. im not a feminist. there are certain things i feel are 'not fair'. at the same time, i recognise that nothing is 'fair'. but atop of these all, i think i believe in the 'action' in alleviating such 'unfairness' - to make it more 'fair'. however. it is tricky not to mess up cultures, traditions. discrimination and prejudices exist everywhere. but what is the difference between that and 'unfairness' and 'oppression'? sometimes, i think sitting back and just lamenting and debating abt women oppression shows even more oppression than awareness. that's why - walk the talk. and please. make sure u put on ur sneakers and walk the walk too!

at the end of the day, there will always be backwashes on your every action. so it's not only thinking about solutions. u have to brain-gym to post solution operations. and you cannot have a single party pushing for changes. it is better to get the support of men too. only then, is there the liberation of BOTH sexes. believe me, the men are oppressed too. the most evident symptom surfaces when they feel it is ok for female oppression and when they feel they are Not oppressed. symptoms take many forms. so there is a neccessity for a joint diagnosis after joint examination. before you hurry to write up an MC.

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JOY. Don't you love tales about our mass rapid transit? this wonderful morning, me and my sis boarded the train and we were just yakking away.about somethings, i can't remember. this means those things were quite trivial and entertaining. so yes we were yakking. after 4 minutes, this malay. no. i don't want to be sued. this bajukurong clad lady tapped on my shoulder and said: " Excuse me, just now you knocked into my bag. i think the least you could do is to say sorry." Of course, RGS uniform clad, i apologised an "oh, sorry" with a smile.

i was appalled. later, this malay girl came in and brushed past her handbag as well. she used Malay to tell her the same thing, for her to apologise. it being the Least she could do.

goodness me. shengnan just reminded me. if she was in HongKong or Japan, probably, no one would care about her. they would just squeeze her further into the train cabin. if she's lucky, someone might glare at her or ask her to talk less - thereby depleting that limited supply of breathable air in the train.

well. experience contributes to A Person. I loved An's blog entry! about how to tell a blind-from-birth man that he is blind and so on...[appaluse] i end here. just remembered i have tuition tonight again. revolting. i can't write on. one thing i feel strongly for - love what you do while you can. haiya.dowan to elaborate.

kmli blogged at 10/13/2005 07:14:00 AM

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