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Category Archives: Unfettered
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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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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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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On making a statement
I was at the Esplanade Waterfront area on March 27th at Earth Hour. I took my dSLR out for a spin (without a tripod- shame on me). There were many people at the same place, and there was even a concert going on. I looked around me and I can’t help but wonder the extent [...]
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Jack Neo and his Casting Couch
I’m so inundated with news about Jack Neo the philanderer that I have to voice my stand. Of course, I do not approve of what he did. My mum is of the opinion that since it takes two to clap, the girl(s) have to be equally responsible as well, and she/they (since it’s unclear how [...]
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I am a trash-talker
That’s right, no better way to put it. I can trash-talk about anyone and anything, based on little or no facts. So some of you may know I have some perennial trash-talk targets. Usually these are people who deserve it. So there’s this particular one that keeps coming up every now and then with some [...]
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Being a twenty-something graduate in Singapore