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Category Archives: Sayin’ Stuff
Being a twenty-something graduate in Singapore
I am obviously currently a twenty-something upwardly mobile Singaporean with a degree. 95% of my Facebook friends belong to this category too. Looking at the feeds of the things my friends are doing, I can’t help but see a pattern of how we as a social category live our lives. From my cursory survey of [...]
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On Feminism
I believe most, if not all, feminists will come to a point where they doubt their convictions. In a world of diverse cultures, how do we ensure emancipation? Let us remember emancipation in most parts of the world is mere spiritual and psychological gesture. No matter how much women may believe they have rights, their [...]
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Taught to Enjoy
I read a poem and thought to myself, “I like this” but I couldn’t go further than that. I don’t usually have particularly strong reaction to poetry; to me they are just words that are perceived to still make sense despite flouting paragraphical and sometimes even grammatical conventions. So I wonder, are we taught to [...]
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You Know….
on the recent issue of a particular SMRT higher-upper claiming that trains are not reaching crushload – my opinion is that SMRT is secretly delighted that they have to get station managers to put on white gloves and help squeeze people into the train like Japan. As though this feature will make SMRT a worldclass [...]
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I Speak English Because I Can
That line from local playwright Haresh Sharma’s latest play, Model Citizens, hit home when I attended the play earlier this year. The context of that line in the play occurred when a trilingual Singaporean, who speaks English, Mandarin and Malay was confronted by a Mandarin-speaking monolingual as to why she chose to speak English to [...]
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Pinkdot 2010
Yes everyone, the freedom to love. Regardless if you are male, female, heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. No one, absolutely no one, should and can stand in your way to happiness. And so 4000 people came together for a common cause of fairness, equality and happiness. Why weren’t you there?
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Hada Labo Media Intimate Session
I was invited to the Hada Labo Media Intimate Session held at Marina At Keppel Bay yesterday. Hada Labo is a renowned Japanese skincare brand. Their star product is the Super Hyaluronic Acid (SHA) moisturizing “lotion” (which translates to “toner” for the Western skincare system). According to statistics, 7 million bottles of this lotion was [...]
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Lingusitic incompetence is still a kind of incompetence
Recently there’s been a move to put an end to penalising primary school students who are linguistically incompetent by proposing a lowering of weightage (what a pompous word) of the Mother Tongue (MT) at PSLE. Here I remind you why there is a fundamental flaw in this affair : Have you heard of the critical [...]
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Being smart is real tiring
A preamble: this post can be offensive to most. I can’t help but have to say – being a smart thinking sensible person in this society is tiring and hard. Suppose an ignorant comment is made – a stupid person can and will usually dumb it down and laugh it off with a comment like [...]
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