Category: Laws of our land
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Pinkdot 2010
Yesterday evening we brought Kai with us to Hong Lim Park to help make a big pink dot in support of the country’s gay and lesbian community. We didn’t actually get to be part of the human formation that was photographed, because Kai was busy practicing walking, his hands held by two of his favourite…
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Dear Law Minister
The only “signal” the State sends to anyone by maintaining and enforcing a mandatory death penalty is that killing people is justified as long as the purpose makes sense. In this case, the purpose is “sending the right signals to ‘drug barons’.” Dude, “drug barons” do not care if their drug mules are hanged or…
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Water conservation FAIL
It has come to someone’s notice that the recent dry spell must be over, because a grassroots community group has organised a ‘water-splashing’ festival to make the foreigners in their midst welcome in their estate. BTW, Earth Hour is tomorrow.
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There’s that R-word again
No, the other R-word. I don’t really care about Pastor Rony Tan and his idiocy – he’s of the same cloth, as far as I’m concerned, as the evangelical pastor in the U.S. who once made his point against migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds by famously declaring that “if English was good enough for Jesus,…
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Put Tamil back on public signboards
Where there are other languages apart from English on them, to be precise. Does anyone know if they’ve put back Tamil on the directional signage at Changi Airport? Or are they still in three of our national languages plus Japanese, as they have been so since 2007? And how true is it that the Civil…