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  • Halimah Yacob Calls For Proper Parliamentary Debate On OxLee Drama

    Halimah Yacob Calls For Proper Parliamentary Debate On OxLee Drama

    Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob on Saturday (Jul 1) said that she hoped issues would be “properly debated” in Parliament on Monday, when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is set to address allegations by his siblings against him.

    “There will be of course a lot of speeches, but I do hope that we can see that the issues are properly debated and hopefully, if we can have some finality, that would be ideal. But I really leave it to the debate,” she said when asked on the sidelines of a People’s Action Party (PAP) event what she hopes to see during the debate.

    “As the speaker, my task is to ensure that it’s a fair, open, transparent debate that goes on on Monday.”

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

     

  • Alfian Sa’at: Why I Don’t Attend Pink Dot

    Alfian Sa’at: Why I Don’t Attend Pink Dot

    Growing older, I find that my introverted nature is becoming more pronounced. One of the reasons why I decided not to go for Pink Dot this year is because I’m beginning to get more terrified of crowds. There’s always a moment when I’m surrounded by too many people when I start feeling dizzy and nauseous.

    And then there’s the issue of my nervousness around dogs. I know Pink Dot is an opportunity for some people to bring their pets along, pets which are as dear to them as family. But dogs–when there’s more than one, or two–have always put me on edge. This is not a problem of the dog-owners roaming the park but my problem alone. (And this is the learned mantra of any minority.)

    This isn’t supposed to be an indictment of Pink Dot’s agenda of inclusivity. I think every year the organisers attempt to provide an atmosphere as hospitable to as many as possible–sign language interpretation, differently-abled access, seating for seniors. But any embrace will come up short at some point because an arm span is finite.

    The space at Pink Dot is also inhospitable for others–those who fear crowds, or fear dogs, those without a pink or blue IC. It makes me think about the limits of inclusivity, the dangers of fantasising about utopian spaces, or spaces that aspire to speak for the entire community.

    In that anxiety to pack in bodies at the event, so as to create an optics of the local-indigenous, is bodily participation privileged over other forms of support? Be there or be square, be there or betray?

    While I support what Pink Dot stands for (and many of its organisers and ambassadors and volunteers are wonderful, tireless people whose activist work extends beyond Pink Dot), I can’t stand to form that dot. Neither can I stand any kind of guilt tripping over one’s absence there, as if fidelity to the cause must translate into piety towards Pink Dot.

    Ultimately I think of Pink Dot, no matter its organisational capacity, as part of something larger–and not as some large reservoir where other tributaries (no matter how many booths, how many representatives) are supposed to converge.

     

    Source: Alfian Sa’at

  • This Abang Is Mangkuk With This Unprofessional $118 Bowl Haircut He Didn’t Ask For

    This Abang Is Mangkuk With This Unprofessional $118 Bowl Haircut He Didn’t Ask For

    Guys does this look like a $118 haircut+rebond+wash (package) to you?

    i ask for rebonding,cut and wash. Asked for high slope at the back and get mangkok (bowl in malay).

    And ur hairdresser still can smile after what he did to my hair i even tell him this is already wrong.

    Even with that, not even a sorry for the mistake. Dont bother going there for a hair cut.

    Money not well spend. with Sante De Beaute sante

     

    Source: El Syibli

  • Malay Butcher Was Drunk When Throwing Ofo Bike From 15th Floor Of HDB Flat, Given 9 Weeks Jail

    Malay Butcher Was Drunk When Throwing Ofo Bike From 15th Floor Of HDB Flat, Given 9 Weeks Jail

    A 47-year-old butcher was sentenced to nine weeks’ jail on Friday (June 30) for throwing a yellow ofo bicycle from the 15th floor of a Housing Development Board (HDB) block at Upper Boon Keng Road last week.

    Selamat Mohamed Ali was convicted of one count of committing a rash act that endangered human life on June 22. Another charge of dishonestly converting a yellow ofo bicycle to his own use was taken into consideration for sentencing.

    The court heard that at about 5am on June 21, Selamat was heading home after a drinking session in Orchard Towers, when he decided not to return to his flat at Blk 11 in Upper Boon Keng Road.

    Instead, he took a lift to the 15th-floor lift landing of the block to rest.

    About half an hour later, he became worried about where he would stay as he had overheard that his uncle wanted to sell the flat, Deputy Public Prosecutor Dwayne Lum told the court.

    Selamat then spotted two yellow ofo bicycles at the lift landing, which were left there by an employee of the bicycle-sharing company. The latter could not return them as there was no available vehicle to transport the bicycles.

    The employee, whose job is to collect bicycles that belong to the company, is also living at a unit on that floor.

    Selamat carried one of the bicycles and threw it over the corridor parapet of the 15th floor.

    He did not check if there was anyone at the ground floor of the block before doing so. He also did not check if the bicycle had landed on anyone, or if anyone was hurt by his act, said DPP Lum.

    Around that time, a witness and her husband were at the void deck sorting out newspapers for them to sell and deliver, when she heard a loud crash behind where they were standing. She turned to find a badly damaged yellow ofo bicycle on the ground and her husband called the police.

    When the police arrived at the scene, they patrolled the building and found Selamat sleeping at the 15th floor lift lobby.

    CCTV footage from a resident staying on the same floor showed him committing the offence.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

     

  • Hue And Cry Over Pink Dot Event Shows Discrimination Exists

    Hue And Cry Over Pink Dot Event Shows Discrimination Exists

    The letter writer Ho Lay Ping (“Don’t equate difference in opinion with discrimination”, June 20) said that because the Pink Dot event is allowed to continue, it shows that “discrimination does not exist”.

    A minority community which faces no discrimination would not spark calls to have its event advertising material reported to the police on the basis of it being “divisive and polarising”.

    The general tone of Facebook groups such as “We are against Pinkdot in Singapore” also makes the writer’s claim of tolerance and lack of discrimination nothing short of disingenuous.

    Her comments that our government ministers may have religious affiliations and “that the majority of Singaporeans follow a religion” hint at laying out who has the authority of being the moral majority to steer our society.

    Our pluralistic society comprises multiple ethnicities, creeds and religions, and protecting our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) minority community is not that great a stretch.

    It is unhelpful to society if our reaction to something we find discomforting is to make police reports instead of having a reasonable and adult conversation.

    We can be better than this.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com