Archive - December 2009

According to David Boey, the 2009 death tally of servicemen in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is the highest since 1987 – but that’s based on the number of press releases the SAF has released.

Petting a pet can supposedly boost your immune system.

Sharing this link because I think it’s important for everyone to know where to find this info, just in case.

I felt quite touched by the story of how the late SSG Lee’s colleagues chipped in to help his children receive an education, so I thought I’d share it with everyone here.

Silences (or what isn’t said) in stories are sometimes the most telling feature of narratives.

I quite agree that the report seems to be sensationalising matters quite a bit.

“…whatever the method of flirting it just doesn’t work with most men, claim researchers.

The male brain, it seems, is hopeless at picking up “come-on” signals…. This leaves men impervious to the seduction techniques of the opposite sex.”

Read the comments too as they provide a broader perspective of the argument. (via http://gssq.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-oclock-is-always-too-late-or-too.html )

“A growing workforce, Malthus explained, depresses wages, which tends to make people delay marriage until they can better support a family. Delaying marriage reduces fertility rates, creating an equally powerful check on populations.” – Sounds like Singapore.

I agree with Yawning Bread in that:

1. If the act was consensual, isn’t it unfair that the girl has not been charged as well? She has, after all, also been engaging in sex with an underage male.
2. On that note, should we even be using the law on children in matters like these?
3. On that note, ‘underage sex’ in a modern context seems like an archaic notion, IMHO, especially when it is consensual. Is this law even up to date then, to make allowance for consent to be brought into the picture?

“It just boils down to one word: Respect for your food. And being a bad cook is really just disrespectful, because it perverts what should have been tasty into something that is not.”

“Which is why I seriously detest mind-numbing drama series like those (yes, including the few I’ve acted in myself). The poison the minds of housewives everywhere. Not that they need more poisoning. People who watch these shows and enjoy them end up developing a worldview that is quite particular, where things are black and white, and stupid family values like clinging on to an obviously fucked up marriage and truly evil family members are endorsed.”

SO SWEET!

“If you had seduced ninety girls with ninety poets, one a week in a course of three academic years, and remembered them all at the end—the poets, I mean—and synthesized your reading into some kind of aesthetic overview, then you would have earned yourself a degree in English literature. But don’t pretend that it’s easy.”

Great concept from JC kids, but the text was a let-down.

“Introducing political education in schools is fine, but it should not be one-sided. We need to have media literacy programmes, and also teach a clear and undoctored political history that is not dictated by one source, but contains different accounts.”