My response to “Singapore on the lookout for new NMP candidates”.

Thu, 14 May 2009
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I fully support any NMP who is willing to speak up for minority rights, regardless of what the minority group is. We should be fair and provide a platform for a multiplicity of voices to be heard, ranging from groups like Jehovah’s Witnesses, to NSmen (yes – even NSmen can be considered a minority group), and even QLGBTs.

At the same time, I think the people who have slandered Mr Siew Kum Hong should be ashamed of themselves. You have no right to drag anyone’s name through the mud just to fulfill your own agenda.

To these people: stop being selfish. Everyone is as human as you are and everyone wants to be treated justly and fairly.

You are lucky because you were born into a majority group – whether it is race-based, religion-based or the like. The difference between you and the people who do not belong to the same group that you belong to is purely superficial; to paraphrase Shakespeare loosely, everyone’s blood bleeds red regardless of the cut that is made. Let’s keep that in mind when making decisions for the good of Singapore society.

Also, I hope the people who have left comments that are derogatory and/or defamatory in nature will please have the guts to apologise and retract their statements. As mentioned, everyone bleeds too – how would you like it if you were the one being slandered?

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Good music again, at last.

Tue, 12 May 2009
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I’ve finally found out what happened to Virgin Radio UK – eight months too late! It seems the station has become Absolute Radio, which is why the iTunes Internet radio link I used to use stopped working after a while.

(Some background context here: I don’t normally listen to the radio, local or otherwise, because I don’t like 80% of the music that is played, the advertising jangles are lame and the DJs’ banal chatter annoys me. But Virgin Radio was different – the songs played like my iTunes playlist, the advertisements were creative and the DJs at least displayed some degree of intelligence.

This also meant that I was introduced to new songs which I’d like too, which was good, because it helped me keep my knowledge of music fresh and relevant. But I was rather sad when the station stopped functioning, and I kind of lost interest in listening to music between then and now. No more, though!)

Anyway, I don’t know how I didn’t know about the change earlier (or maybe it never occurred to me to check), but better late than never, I guess. If you want to listen to Absolute Radio too, point your brower toward this link and click on ‘Listen Live’ to find out the ways in which you can listen to the station.

To reiterate my point about the music: they’re playing “Patience” by Guns N’ Roses now as I conclude this post.

Deactivating my Facebook account.

Tue, 12 May 2009
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I briefly toyed with the idea of temporarily deactivating my Facebook account because it’s taking up too much of my attention from other things. However, I changed my mind when I saw the warning that I’d lose my administrator status in my groups/events/pages.

I think that’s going to cause major chaos later on when I log back on to Facebook again; besides, I just need some respite from the information overload, I don’t need major upheavals and subsequent administrative difficulties at this point in time. Once I realised that, it made everything a lot clearer – I just needed to make logging in that bit more difficult so as create a psychological barrier/aversion to logging in.

Let me just say that I never knew deleting a saved userid/password could bring so much relief.