Singapore needs a Fifth Amendment
Its been far too long yet again. That's going to be like the catchphrase for this blog if I dont watch it, i swear.
If you're wondering what the new title of my blog means, well do your homework! it never hurts to pick up a Renaissance phrase or two. for some strange and quirky reason it seems to make people think you're intelligent. God knows what goes thru some people's heads at times, i swear.
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Singapore needs a Fifth Amendment. If i'm remembering right, that's the one that says people have the right to freedom of speech/expression. No, i dont know what the first 4 are (except that one is the right to bear arms or something.... we can skip that one!), but i think the 5th is damn important!
Not to say that there havent been attempts. The government's trying really really hard. I mean, can't you tell? what with the SPEAKER'S CORNER??
puh-leeze. Its a wonder that one isn't already an old joke with comedians.
But anyway. What's setting me off on this path? A path which is dangerous, filled with pitfalls? A path where the path's pitfalls are filled with people ready to jump up and pull you down if you're lucky enough to miss the first few?
Its the whole goddamn blog thing!
First of all some PSC scholar makes a racist remark. Where? ONLINE. in a -get this- BLOG. who in all of Dante's hells gives a shit? Obviously some do, because the poor SOB got shot down. I cant remember what the punishment was, but it can't have been fun.
Disclaimer: Yeah yeah i'm all against racism and all that jive. I really am! (try being mixed in an all Chinese secondary school. it messes with you!) but really. A grown man should be allowed to express some things in the privacy of what is, essentially, a diary in cyberspace. What's next? Invasive procedures to check bad eeeevil thoughts?
Next we have the poor sod otherwise known as Sarong Party Girl. so she posts nude pictures on the web. SO THE FUCK WHAT?
I wouldn't respond with such strength and vitriol if the arguments put forward against this blog hadn't been so utterly pathetic as to be laughable. I mean we're talking pathetic on the level that going up against the United States Army with a can of spray paint and some rocks is pathetic. "What if my brother chances across her site and gets addicted to pornography?" What on earth is someone who says something like that THINKING? "What if I walk down the street and a plane falls on me? I think we should ban planes!"
I think the chances of a brother happening across SPG's website and getting addicted to porn BECAUSE OF THAT WEBSITE are abt the same as me being killed by a plane crash tomorrow.
What the cerebrally-challenged idiot of a sister should have thought abt was how her complaining IN THE NATION'S ONE AND ONLY NEWSPAPER might cause many many many more poor, pure and wholly innocent younger brothers to, because of the publicity, visit this EVIL, DESPICABLE blog, and get addicted to porn.
Not that having the last two unaddicted young teenage boys (there cant be many more than that left!) become porn lovers really makes a difference by this point, anyway. Come ON.
Next we have people who said "It will tarnish Singapore's image!".
Oh god. where does one even START?
ONE NUDE PHOTO let me repeat that ONE NUDE PHOTO is going to tarnish Singapore's reputation? well then! either
A) You yourself think very, very VERY lowly already of Singapore's image, if this'd make a difference
B) You have very strange ideas about the minds of people in other countries, or
C) You really don't give a damn about Singapore's reputation, but because you either dont have a decent enough body for a nude shot or you're pissed coz YOU aren't getting the publicity you're doing the whole "Oh Lord save my nation's purity and virtue!" act.
I understand the first, i guess, but then why say anything?
The second wouldn't suprise me. People here have MANY strange ideas, it seems.
The third? Ding ding ding! The answer, i think! Because who really cares about a country's image?! Or if you really do, who genuinely believes that a nude photo is going to affect it in any negative way????
And of course in the midst of all the furor over this blog, the writer over at xiaxue.blogspot.com has to give her two cents worth, of course. Or rather, a whole $10 bill in small change. Sounding rather green with envy, she disdainfully dismisses (not that she uses any alliteration - i suspect its beyond her) SPG's blog as a passing fad, and says she feels absolutely unthreatened - which is why she felt compelled to come up with some snide little animation about her non-rival. Ladies and gentlemen, Singapore's top blogger - revealed as the insecure jealous girl she must obviously be!
a comparison has to be made between the two bloggers, because this IS singaporean journalism, you know.
What self-respecting person really cares about the opinions of someone who says that SPG's blog is full of "cheem" words, though, anyway?
But my purpose is not to attack Wendy Cheng! (although my inner self rubs its hands gleefully at the prospect. Down, boy!) All I really wanted to do was to lament the sad lack of freedom of expression in this country. I'm sure its better than before, but there must be a way for Singapore to progress beyond a point where the only people with the audacity to speak freely and yet not be lambasted in the local media are taxi drivers!
Think on it. And if i've upset any xiaxue fans.....
Onomatopoeia! Xenophobia! Existentialism! Psychosomatic symptoms! Telekinesis! Thermodynamics! Arbitration! Draconian ideology! Believer in the Strong Anthromorphic Principle!
That should be enough in the way of "cheem" words to scare you twits off for good. -insert saccharine (you get that one for free!) sweet smile right here-
If you're wondering what the new title of my blog means, well do your homework! it never hurts to pick up a Renaissance phrase or two. for some strange and quirky reason it seems to make people think you're intelligent. God knows what goes thru some people's heads at times, i swear.
**********
Singapore needs a Fifth Amendment. If i'm remembering right, that's the one that says people have the right to freedom of speech/expression. No, i dont know what the first 4 are (except that one is the right to bear arms or something.... we can skip that one!), but i think the 5th is damn important!
Not to say that there havent been attempts. The government's trying really really hard. I mean, can't you tell? what with the SPEAKER'S CORNER??
puh-leeze. Its a wonder that one isn't already an old joke with comedians.
But anyway. What's setting me off on this path? A path which is dangerous, filled with pitfalls? A path where the path's pitfalls are filled with people ready to jump up and pull you down if you're lucky enough to miss the first few?
Its the whole goddamn blog thing!
First of all some PSC scholar makes a racist remark. Where? ONLINE. in a -get this- BLOG. who in all of Dante's hells gives a shit? Obviously some do, because the poor SOB got shot down. I cant remember what the punishment was, but it can't have been fun.
Disclaimer: Yeah yeah i'm all against racism and all that jive. I really am! (try being mixed in an all Chinese secondary school. it messes with you!) but really. A grown man should be allowed to express some things in the privacy of what is, essentially, a diary in cyberspace. What's next? Invasive procedures to check bad eeeevil thoughts?
Next we have the poor sod otherwise known as Sarong Party Girl. so she posts nude pictures on the web. SO THE FUCK WHAT?
I wouldn't respond with such strength and vitriol if the arguments put forward against this blog hadn't been so utterly pathetic as to be laughable. I mean we're talking pathetic on the level that going up against the United States Army with a can of spray paint and some rocks is pathetic. "What if my brother chances across her site and gets addicted to pornography?" What on earth is someone who says something like that THINKING? "What if I walk down the street and a plane falls on me? I think we should ban planes!"
I think the chances of a brother happening across SPG's website and getting addicted to porn BECAUSE OF THAT WEBSITE are abt the same as me being killed by a plane crash tomorrow.
What the cerebrally-challenged idiot of a sister should have thought abt was how her complaining IN THE NATION'S ONE AND ONLY NEWSPAPER might cause many many many more poor, pure and wholly innocent younger brothers to, because of the publicity, visit this EVIL, DESPICABLE blog, and get addicted to porn.
Not that having the last two unaddicted young teenage boys (there cant be many more than that left!) become porn lovers really makes a difference by this point, anyway. Come ON.
Next we have people who said "It will tarnish Singapore's image!".
Oh god. where does one even START?
ONE NUDE PHOTO let me repeat that ONE NUDE PHOTO is going to tarnish Singapore's reputation? well then! either
A) You yourself think very, very VERY lowly already of Singapore's image, if this'd make a difference
B) You have very strange ideas about the minds of people in other countries, or
C) You really don't give a damn about Singapore's reputation, but because you either dont have a decent enough body for a nude shot or you're pissed coz YOU aren't getting the publicity you're doing the whole "Oh Lord save my nation's purity and virtue!" act.
I understand the first, i guess, but then why say anything?
The second wouldn't suprise me. People here have MANY strange ideas, it seems.
The third? Ding ding ding! The answer, i think! Because who really cares about a country's image?! Or if you really do, who genuinely believes that a nude photo is going to affect it in any negative way????
And of course in the midst of all the furor over this blog, the writer over at xiaxue.blogspot.com has to give her two cents worth, of course. Or rather, a whole $10 bill in small change. Sounding rather green with envy, she disdainfully dismisses (not that she uses any alliteration - i suspect its beyond her) SPG's blog as a passing fad, and says she feels absolutely unthreatened - which is why she felt compelled to come up with some snide little animation about her non-rival. Ladies and gentlemen, Singapore's top blogger - revealed as the insecure jealous girl she must obviously be!
a comparison has to be made between the two bloggers, because this IS singaporean journalism, you know.
What self-respecting person really cares about the opinions of someone who says that SPG's blog is full of "cheem" words, though, anyway?
But my purpose is not to attack Wendy Cheng! (although my inner self rubs its hands gleefully at the prospect. Down, boy!) All I really wanted to do was to lament the sad lack of freedom of expression in this country. I'm sure its better than before, but there must be a way for Singapore to progress beyond a point where the only people with the audacity to speak freely and yet not be lambasted in the local media are taxi drivers!
Think on it. And if i've upset any xiaxue fans.....
Onomatopoeia! Xenophobia! Existentialism! Psychosomatic symptoms! Telekinesis! Thermodynamics! Arbitration! Draconian ideology! Believer in the Strong Anthromorphic Principle!
That should be enough in the way of "cheem" words to scare you twits off for good. -insert saccharine (you get that one for free!) sweet smile right here-
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