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Sex in the City Part 2, starring Tammy NYP
Bitched on: Sunday, February 26, 2006
Time: 2/26/2006 06:07:00 PM
Hey, I know its too soon to be writing another entry but I am going for a week long holiday starting this Tuesday so I just have to write something before the week of silence from me.Time: 2/26/2006 06:07:00 PM
So... heard about the 17-year-old cheerleader Tammy from NYP (Nanyang Polytechnic) incident? Poor girl. Not only was her handphone (cellphone, mobile phone... wadever your side of the world calls it) stolen, her saucy videos of her romp with her boyfriend on the phone were posted on the internet and they instantly became the talk of the town, mostly negative (duh..). To make it worst, hackers even managed to retrieve her personal details from NYP's database, and spread her full name and address around. But haven't we forgotten someone?
Ahh yes.... the boyfriend. Isn't he like, supposed to be affected also? But no... the spotlight has to be on the poor girl. We know her name but we have no idea who the 21-year-old guy is.
There is also talk of a possibility of Tammy being expelled from NYP although it is believed to be unlikely that the video was shot on school grounds.
The thief must really be bloody heartless ya? Not only did he or she (they are suspecting a rivalling girl who did it) stole the handphone, the thief posted the raunchy 10 minute video online (the school's site of all places!). Anyway...the question is... what? Only 10 minutes?!
Haha... The most important question is, 'Have I seen it?'
Well, sorry to disappoint ya but no. Its really the couple's intimate and personal (talk about primal) stuff.
(erm... see Latest Update below... oopps.)
But I have seen my fair share of self-made amateurish pornography on the phone (my perverted friends' phones). Ok, I am a perv too... but deep down, it really sickens me to watch (after a while...). And then I'll be sickened to have watched it in the first place...
What makes people want to record themselves in action? Well, everyone has their own degree of a fetish for voyeurism (porn stars obviously having the highest degree...). Its kinky, some say. A boast in the sex life. Other than reading girlie mags or using sex toys, filming the heated moment can also be another form for arousal.
Its really up to them what they want to do or how they want to spice it up but haven't they thought of the circumstances if their private videos are leaked out? I mean imagine this, someone has a video of you with your badangdangs or ding-dongs (ok, this sounds childish but you know what I mean) exposed, in their camera-phones nonetheless.
And they could spread it around to their friends via e-mail, blue tooth, MMS (multimedia messages) or infra-red. Soon the whole world would have a piece of you in their computers or mobile phones, if ya know what I mean.
What I think is that its really up to you if you want to record intimate moments in your phone or camera with your lover (with mutual consent) but bear in mind, what if the love sours? Will you trust your ex to delete the 'movie clips'? This sort of complacency is dangerous. The ex from hell can use it to blackmail you into paying money or having more sex (especially true for the ladies). A famous victim to this blackmail has to be the one and only hotel heiress, Paris Hilton (hubba... hubba..., I swear I haven't seen the infamous video...rite...). That happened a long time ago and yet the scandal hasn't blown (pardon the pun) over.
Also, like the above hooh-hah, someone could have stolen or stumbled onto your 'lost' phone or camera and instead of graciously returning the item, they uploaded your 'sexcapades' into the Internet. Other high profile victims to this unfortune are Pamela Anderson and ex-husband Tommy Lee Jones.
Another scarier scenario is that if you were not aware of being filmed in the first place, a nightmare but so true for the ladies. Peeing in public toilets (lavatories, washrooms... wadever your side of the world calls it) will never be safe again.
Already a certain male magazine in Singapore are showing pictures of women's cleavage or up the skirts of unsuspecting ladies in a section showing amateurish pictures. We shouldn't be supporting this!
If you are aware of being filmed and even allowing the videos to be widely distributed then something is definitely wrong! I mean... you are not even being paid!
But seriously, that would be sick!
However, I believe that most of the ladies in these videos are surely tricked into making them. Its the men who distribute them, I mean, they have nothing to lose, they will be called THE man. Its the ladies who would eventually bare the brunt of the receiving end. Sluts, prostitute or whores. You never hear the guys being called that, do you?
Another high profile sex clip is the 'Minah Tudung Biru' (i.e. The Blue Headscarf Lady). The infamous clip originates from Malaysia which then spread across the Causeway (the bridge linking the two countries) into Singapore shores. What makes it so disturbing is that the lady involved was still wearing the 'tudung' or the headscarf (an Islamic necessity for women to cover their hair) while performing the deed. Decorum is surely the last thing on the lady's mind. Ironic isn't it? When the headscarf is supposed to be a symbol for religious faith.
But back to the Tammy case, apparently, the school NYP has been the setting for another sex scandal. This certain Susan Chua also has had her self-made movies widely distributed online. And she came from the same school.
What makes this mind-boggling is that the story (and video) is so widely distributed, even bloggers from the US and Hong Kong are blogging about this. Amazing...
Move over Annabelle Chong who is RJC's (the renowned Raffles Junior College) ex-student and the school's pride and joy and contribution to the US porn industry, we have a new Singaporean Sex Symbol (though reluctant this time). Simply amazing how scandalous news can get the world's attention when millions of people are starving in the Sahara and no one gives a damn...
There are even T-shirts and Bags surrounding this garbage!
And even VCDs DVDs with the clip on sale in Malaysia. Talk about 'enterprising' and 'entrepreneurial'. And the cost of the clip on eBay? $3.99!
This is madness!!
For more info on the Tammy story, here are more articles from online newspaper from as far as the USA.
The Star - Sex video clip under probe
Metafilter - The last scene had it that..
News America Now - Tammy NYP Singapore Sex Saga
The Star - Sex video featuring student on sale
Unlike the entry about the Danish Caricatures, I think its unsuitable for me to link my blog to any web site that eventually allows you to download the intimate video. This is not a pornagraphic site. And I urged the other bloggers to do the same. Do not further traumatise the girl. However, I will describe the video...
Its 10 minutes long and the file is 4.8MB (what were you thinking? I was going to describe 'the deed' in detail?)
Sickos...
Fine... You sick perverts, here is the video...
Latest Update: Seen the video on (where else?) a perverted friend's phone. Really not much to comment on cept I could barely see the girl's face (if ya know what I mean) though the guy looks familiar somehow...
I know initially I said I wouldn't view it but I was curious, OK? I mean its human nature to be curious. Besides what's your excuse for reading this blog? To see if I am insensitive enough to link it to her video?
Sheesh...
Labels: sex, Singapore stories, Tammy NYP
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Estatic about Aesthetic Surgery: Revisited
Bitched on: Saturday, February 25, 2006
Time: 2/25/2006 08:52:00 PM
Since I am in the habit of 'revisiting' my entries, I thought I would revisit this particular entry, Estatic about Aesthetic Surgery.Time: 2/25/2006 08:52:00 PM
I came across this website offering body implants (that sounds so weird..) in a health magazine. Go check it out to see what I mean.
Other than the usual breast and butt implants, they also provide (not hands or heads, don't worry) pectoral, tricep and calf implants...
Gee.
That makes going to gym look dumb.
I mean why sweat it out when you can just go under the knife for that well toned body?
While I am under the anaesthetic, why not do a little lipo and add six hard lumps under my abdominal skin. That would be easier that having to do 100 crunches on my swiss ball, wouldn't it?
Or why not add implants on my pecs (chest), bicep and triceps (arms)?
I will never have to carry weights again (or anything heavier than a spoon)...
Not forgeting my gluts (butt cheeks) and calf implants.
I don't have to ever run on the treadmill again.
Forget that, I will never have to run in my life again.
Probably because I'll be permanently immobilised when the silicon implant leaks.
While I am already doing a whole body implant thingy, why don't I exchange my brain with a working one too?
P.S. To those visiting the web site, please do not be offended by the nudity (mostly pictures of naked breasts...)
Labels: aesthetic surgeries
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Mats Boleh! Revisited
Bitched on: Friday, February 24, 2006
Time: 2/24/2006 09:41:00 PM
Hmmm... No more racist jokes this time.Time: 2/24/2006 09:41:00 PM
In the previous Mats Boleh! entries, I 'slammed' (ok, not really slammed) my own race (more like I flicked the finger..) about our educational and other statistics but this time, I am going to talk about something more serious and worrying (...yawn).
I won't beat around the bush and let me dive straight into the matter... Our health, or lack of it. Take a look around you and look at the makciks and pakciks (aunties and uncles in Malay). What do most of them have in common?
If you notice our bulging tummies, then you are right, my friends. A lot of us Malays are obese!
Another cheena (Chinese) friend of mine was commenting how curvy our Malay gals are (I do indeed agree whole-heartedly) but then another Malay friend of mine went on to joke that soon after marriage, the chicks will become round hens (this friend of mine is so sexist duncha think, I will not name him for his sake...).
Well, us Malay guys should not be spared too. Just look at some pakciks' waistlines and all the spare tyres hanging around (and I'm not talking about the ones in the overly modified Malay-owned cars)...
And also speaking as an instructor from BMTC (school for Army recruits), my neighbouring company (which is currently taking in and teaching obese recruits) has roughly 70% of the recruits who are Malay! And they are like morbid (how I can I put this nicer?) obese!
Are we a race that raises our children to become sumo wrestlers?
Before you pro-Malays start thumping your chest again and start chanting Hidup Melayu (Live On Malays) again... let me slap you (not physically, of course) with the following statistics from the Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore.
In 2004, the prevalence of obesity amongst Malays (i.e to say the tendency for us to become fat) is 19.2% compared to the Chinese (4.3%) and the Indians (13.5%).
However, our Indians friends are more prone to abdominal fatness.
Hmmm... I'm part Indian too...
Those Malays who are not catergorised as obese should not be relieved as Malays are also more at risk of becoming obese. 33.6% of Malays (aged 18-69 years) have high BMI (Body Mass Index, kg/m2). That is like 1 in 3 of Malays may become obese (that explains the chicks to mother hens joke).
Looks aside, obesity also brings along other harmful and potentially fatal complications like heart risks and diabetes.
We are the ethnic race with the highest % with high cholesterol (27.9%) compared to the total population's 19.8%.
11.7% of Malays have diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) compared to 8.9% of the population. However, our Indian friends are more at risk with a staggering 16.3% of them having diabetes...
Which makes up wonder...
Is Indian food really that sweet and sugary? Or izzit because of the genetic make-up? Or izzit just a combination of both? Whatever it is, I am really worried...being part Indian too...
Sigh...
Another thing you will notice about most Malays is that we smoke (like in cigarettes, duh!).
A very beng (slang for a Chinese... erm... mat?) colleague of mine asked me for a stick and when I said I don't smoke, he gave me a shocked expression. He broke into a grin and told me not to be selfish with the cigarettes and I should come up with a better excuse next time. It took me a while before I finally convinced him that I really don't smoke. And finally he blatantly told me that he assumed I smoke because of my ethnicity (how racist was that? haha...).
But who could blame him? Look at the statistics (page 9 0f 13) and judge for yourself.
18.6% of Malays are smokers compared to 11.7% of Chinese and 12.1% of Indians.
Before you brush it off as a only a small percentage, get this, 29.9% of male Malays smoke (that is like 1 in 3 Malay mats), again the highest amongst the other races in Singapore.
For us Malays, being Muslims and all, we are prohibited to consume alcohol but that has not stopped 7.6% who are occasional drinkers, 1% frequent drinkers and 0.6% regular drinkers (you know who you are...). Good for you, the remaining 90.8%.
To make matters worst we also tend to not have medical check-ups (page 11 onwards) like Breast Cancer screening, Cervical Cancer screening and Colorectal Cancer screening.
Only 34.8% of Malay women have gone for mammography (for breast cancer) compared to Chinese (53.7%) and Indians (46.2%).
What is it with us Malays?
Before you Malay readers start to despair and see ourselves to be doomed to an early grave. Hear this out, the % of us who exercise regularly (page 5 of 16) are higher than total population (28% compared to 24.9%).
That's great news!
For more details on all of the statistics see here.
However people, we still need to get our fat asses to the nearby clinics or polyclinics for our medical screening (I am nagging my mum to go for her mammography soon).
Dispell the belief that all medical check-ups involve needles and pain. If your mum is over 50, nag her to do the mammography! And tell your dad to watch his cholestrol intake and monitor his weight.
If you truly love your love ones, remind them to lead a healthier lifestyle...
The reason as to why I suddenly wrote this (sombre...ok...quite serious) blog entry was because a cousin of mine is recently warded in the hospital. For the sake of her two daughters (who might be reading this), I wish her a speedy recovery.
God bless...
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Sex in the City
Bitched on: Saturday, February 18, 2006
Time: 2/18/2006 04:03:00 PM
I was on the way back from camp on the train just the other day, minding my own business, when not one but two teenage couples began being intimate in front of me (not together lah, that would be a foursome... and also sick). Time: 2/18/2006 04:03:00 PM
I wasn't being a perv by staring at them from the other carriage or on the other side of the train but they were making out in front of me, like there, standing in front of me! Where else was I to look? Usually, PDA (public displays of affection) do not disgust or bother me as much but they were giggling so loud, I bet the driver of the train could hear them.
So I turned on the music I was listening to to the max.
Then there was the stroking and teasing and the tongue wrestling.
Good God! Get a room lah people...
Have sex in the train why don't you?
Go trade STDs too.
Argh...!!
Why can't these teenagers be more mindful of their behaviours in public?
And its not only teenagers but also middle-aged people who seem to not give a damn about frolicking in the open. There was a report in the New Paper (they report just about anything unimportant, duncha think?) about this middle-aged couple who publicly make out near the playground and at the staircase (if they were teenagers, we wouldn't be having this 'ground-breaking news' report).
I would have to admit that the reason as to why this is bothering me is because I am still a tad conservative (yes people, the He-bitch admits to being the C word). I mean being raised in a country where sex is not openly discussed (in classrooms or wherever) and in a family that hardly says 'I love you's, people making out infront of me still raises my (ehem) eyebrow and also arouses (dun think dirty) my curiosity.
Us Singaporeans love to think ourselves as liberal and open-minded society, but we need a reality check. Just take a look at 2005 Durex Global Survey.
We are not as liberal as France (those French have sex like 137 times per year, thats like once in 3 days...) or even India (they do it like 75 times compared to us 73!!!). We are second lowest (Japan is the least horny... and least happy of all the countries surveyed) in the survey.
The age when average Singaporeans 'pop the cherry' is 18.4 compared to the global's 17.3 (we are even below China for God's sake! They score 18.3! And the Icelandics, they score a very horny 15.6 years old)
And the number of sexual partners we have? 7.2, compared to the promiscuous Turkish 14.5 (isn't Turkey an Islamic country?)....
Before you begin to conclude that we should change our country's name to the People's Republic of Virgins, here I have more worrying findings...
8% of us compared to 4% globally admit to having an unplanned pregnancy under the age of 16.
9% of us compared to 5% globally admit to having an unplanned pregnancy between the ages of 17 and 18.
15% of us compared to 10% globally admit to having an unplanned pregnancy aged 19 and above.
Before you dim-wits start giving yourselves a pat in the back and exchanging hi-fives, this is something we are not proud of.
The survey just shows that we have a lot of old virgins and horny teenagers in our country!
Its either that or these surveys are a just a bunch of crap. I mean, a majority of those doing the survey must be those virgin cyber geeks who stumbled onto the survey while looking for porn on the internet... Haha... (I did mean to search for the surveys' results, mind you.)
I am not saying that we should start reproducing like bunnies or go to Geylang to lose more than our sanity and dignity (if ya know what I mean).
Neither am I saying that we should be conservative, chanting virgins forever nor should we have sex with our clothes on.
We should strike a balance. Teenagers=abstinence, and adults=sex.
(Which reminds me, don't you find our country strange because the legal age to have sex is 16 and that to watch an adult movie is 21? I mean, why watch when you can already do it?)
Stay balanced Singapore and let's keep the sex within the walls of our bedroom (or at least in private... in public places...ehem..).
Just when we thought we were seen as a country more 'virgin' than the Virgin Islands, a heroin saves the day. Her name? Tammy. Read about her most sort after story (in Technorati) in Sex in the City Part 2, starring Tammy NYP.
Labels: sex, Singapore stories
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Estatic about Aesthetic Surgery
Bitched on: Friday, February 10, 2006
Time: 2/10/2006 07:26:00 PM
I have had my first surgery yesterday. Time: 2/10/2006 07:26:00 PM
I will be removing my stitches after a few days.
And I will have two more surgeries in the next couple of weeks before they are completely gone.
Before you lunge for the telephone to call me up and ask me how I am doing and which ward I am in, relaks..chill... I was just talking about my four wisdom teeth and their extraction surgeries.
And no the wisdom teeth in my mouth were not life-threatening like cancer or anything (but they will lead to teeth decay and eventually as you get older, a disfigured face with no teeth... euww...).
So I suppose the surgery is more of the aesthetic kind. In other words, cosmetic surgery... or (gasp) in other words plastic surgery (erm...). But I mean the extraction of the wisdom teeth will not alter my looks what so ever (I am already good looking mah..).
But I did have 'looks-altering' surgery back in JC. Well, as some of you might recall, I had a surgery to remove this ugly growth on my lower lip (the size of a five-cent coin) that suddenly popped out all of the sudden.
But back to the topic that I really wanted to talk about.
Aesthetic surgery.
It has become so common to hear stories of breast augmentation and face lifts in Hollywood and the Western countries but what about in Singapore? Will it ever become the norm here? Already in other Asian countries like Korea (South not the North, like duh..) it seems normal to have surgeries to have double eyelids and much much more (has anyone seen Harisu, THE Harisu, va-va-voom Harisu?).
Well, I did have friends who went for surgeries to have double eyelids. How about breast augmentation? Anyone out there I know had one (or two, hehe..)? I wanna feel, erm... I mean, I wanna know...
My religion forbids having any plastic surgery done on yourself unless the 'defect' is life threatening like skin grafting for third degree burns or surgery to remove a second deformed genital (sheesh..).
However, I do wonder if I could have an aesthetic surgery, what would it be?
Well, after looking at myself in the mirror for so long, I would like to make my nose smaller. You know how those people in Exreme Makeover actually do a 'nose job' (oei...don't think dirty here)? They use a hammer to break your nose into pieces and then put a cast to re-shape the nose (bring on the sledge hammer)... On second thought I will just stick to what God has given me when I was born (but of course, my nose was way smaller back then, it just grew and grew to the monster it is today)...sigh...
But what I really want is to have a chemical peel done on my skin to remove my acne scars... sigh... Melt my face right off.
Or to make myself taller. They say they break the bones of your legs, stretch them, put metal screws in the legs and eventually the bones will grow to re-attach. Or they could also dislocate your leg bones from the sockets of your pelvis to re-locate them lower... Ouch..
But whatever it is, Singapore has yet to accept the issue about having beautification surgery done to oneself. Just take a look at all the hoohah surrounding Miss Dawn Yeo (THE Dawn Yeo, va-va-voom Dawn Yeo... drools...) and her infamous plastic surgery accusations. I am not implying that she did have work done on her but look at the fury that erupted when people (especially jealous ugly ones... kidding) denounced her as "fake inside, fake outside" and post her unglamorous 'post surgery' pictures online. I smell jealousy...
Then, there were issues about certain Mediacorp artistes and their rumoured enlargements. I mean what is the big deal (pardon the pun) if people deny having work done? The bigger deal (i'm enjoying this pun) should be how can we allow the press to put these people under the magnifying glass and probe into their affairs?
They are entitled to their own personal lives. But who can blame them for being ashamed about being labelled 'fake beauties'? I mean if I had the moolah and I did have a surgery, I would flaunt it... Rite...
That would be so shallow and narcissistic.
But what really irk me is that we are defining beauty with Western standards. Why are we comparing oranges with apples? Why do we see fair white skin, sharp nose, straight hair, coloured eyes and coloured hair beautiful? Then why are we dissatisfied with slit eyes, brown or dark skin, button noses, curly hair or black eyes and hair? Read this blog entry of the one and only Miss Xialanxue (she was obviously taking a dig at our Miss Dawn Yeo, who was her 'best friend' turned punching bag after the accusations started flying about).
xlx said,
"There has been a rising trend in the media over the past couple of years to cast and star and promote eurasians and with that, the emergence of coloured contacts, hair dyes and what not....
"Why can't we be comfortable with our own unique heritage?"."
Exactly. So be proud of who you are, not what you are.
I am proud to be a Malay (who uses whitening cleanser, wears green coloured contact lenses and dreams of rebonding and dying my locks).
Haha... Kidding.
This blogger is not accusing and has not accused Miss Dawn Yeo of having gone through cosmetic surgery. Even if she did, shame on you for caring.
This blogger should not be accused of stalking her because this blogger 'stumbled' on her Friendster...
And has loads of her pix on his phone.
And bought two issues of the FHM with her on the cover.
But still doesn't know where she lives... Kidding...
Latest Update in Estatic about Aesthetic Surgery: Revisited.
Labels: Dawn Yang
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The Danish Caricatures
Bitched on: Friday, February 03, 2006
Time: 2/03/2006 11:15:00 PM
Anyway, I was scanning through the net trying to look for the controversional and incriminating pictures depicting the Prophet Mohammed (SAW; peace be upon him) and boy... did I find them.Time: 2/03/2006 11:15:00 PM
PS. I am NOT trying to ride in the wave of this controversy to popularise my blog but instead, I was genuinely (and naturally) curious to see the pictures for myself. So if you share the same sentiments, I recommend this site I came across to see the images. However, I do have to warn that these pictures, paintings and cartoon drawings are EXTREMELY offensive and hurtful. (So to all my Muslims friends I advise you to view the pictures with a ... erm... open mind? I couldn't do it myself! What blasphemy!)
Well, I do have to warn you before you go berserk and bomb the embassies... Rite...
My first reaction was shock. How could they print all these insulting caricatures in the newspapers? Has the European media gone insensitive and (especially) INSANE??
Aiyoh...
Oh... to all those who are ignorant (like some of my friends) of what's happening in the world around you and what is making news lately (no... not celeb gossip), here is what that has happened so far...
"The drawings, which seemed to portray the prophet as a terrorist, were published in September, but the row erupted this month after diplomatic efforts to solve the issue failed. One drawing shows Prophet Muhammad (SAW) wearing a turban shaped as a bomb."
-Al Jazeera
"Newspapers in France and Germany reprinted Danish caricatures of the
Prophet Muhammad (SAW) yesterday, saying press freedom was more important than a wave of protest across the Muslim world. saying they wanted to support the right of Danish and Norwegian papers to publish the caricatures."
"A Danish newspaper is apologizing to the world's Muslims for publishing
caricatures of (the Prophet) Muhammad (SAW) that sparked a furor in the Islamic world."
"A statement posted on the newspaper's Web site says the drawings "were
not in violation of Danish law, but have undoubtedly offended many Muslims,
which we would like to apologize for."""Islam forbids visual depictions of the prophet, and regards violations by
Muslims as highly sinful and by non-Muslims as the ultimate sort of
insult.The prohibition is in part an application of the Quran's strict opposition
to idolatry, the worship of a physical object as a god, including any hint of
such devotion toward the faith's revered human prophet.In the Quran, "shirk"
(Arabic for "partnering" or "associating" anything with God) is the one
unforgivable sin: "God does not forgive the joining of partners with him:
anything less than that he forgives to whoever he will, but anyone who joins
partners with God is lying and committing a tremendous sin" (4:48)."
So now, what do you get? Hundreds of thousands Muslims protesting around the world (look at what you have done) and the rioters burning the countries' flags (aiyoh..no originality). I mean, the countries involved Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Iceland, Belgium, the USA (always kaypoh), the UK (televised only but still...) and even Jordan (an Islamic country), should have been more SENSITIVE.
The reason I gathered as to why this pictures where created in the first place...
Another surprise awaited me as I Googled for the pictures, I chanced upon a website that had more images of the Prophet Mohammed (SAW), even those from the Western and Islamic civilisations as far back as the Middle Ages and from countries as diversed as 19th century France, ancient Persia, Indianised Indonesia and even Buddhist Mongolia. There are also recent images from the above controversional Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, a disturbing drawing by an Israeli woman, a tongue-in-cheek comic strip (Jesus and Mo) and even America's South Park."The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten created the furor over depictions of Mohammed by publishing a series of 12 drawings after a local author said he was unable to find any artist willing to depict Mohammed for his upcoming illustrated book."
"The entire controversy started when Danish author Kåre Bluitgen complained that he could not find an artist brave enought to illustrate his upcoming book about Mohammed. The newspaper Jyllands-Posten issued a call for submissions from any artists willing to take up the challenge."
"While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word ofWarning: See it if you wanna see it. Strongly recommended for the strongly curious and non-suicidal or radical Muslim friends (kidding lah..). This website contains more insensitive and offensive pictures. (And please don't slam me and say that I enjoy our prophet to be humiliated, cause I really don't. Besides you are viewing this pictures with your own free will).
complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of (the Prophet) Mohammed (SAW) have ever been so widely publicized."
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Labels: religion
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Mats Boleh! Part 3
Bitched on: Thursday, February 02, 2006
Time: 2/02/2006 03:56:00 PM
Time: 2/02/2006 03:56:00 PM
Gosh... this will never stop huh?
To first time readers, check out Part 1 and Part 2 before you embark on this reawakening...
continued...
We Malays have this inferiority complex when we compare ourselves with the other races in Singapore (just look at the barber story in Part 1).
Libertas wrote,
To first time readers, check out Part 1 and Part 2 before you embark on this reawakening...
continued...
We Malays have this inferiority complex when we compare ourselves with the other races in Singapore (just look at the barber story in Part 1).
Libertas wrote,
"The Malay community needs to get out of the habit of having the self pitying
refrain of "Melayu ape. Macam mana nak naik?".... Accepting this sad
predicament only seeks to perpetuate this endless racist trend of the Malays
being cultural inferior to the Chinese."
Eventually, ever so often we hear the excuses that a Malay can never go far in his career or education because of this and that (oh... his employer is racist that's why the promotion went to his new Chinese colleague...Or he didn't do well because the teachers were bias against him... Or he can't find a job because they saw his name on the interview list and it said 'Mohamed...')
Come on people, have you heard of qualifications? That's what you need to have to work... and potential employers find that appealing, you know...
If you were an employer and you had to choose between a university graduate (only 1.9% Malays are graduates compared to 11.7%f the total population) or one without a diploma, 'A' Level or ITE certificate (27% of Malays don't), who would you choose?
Gee...
Furthermore doesn't the government pay for our education fees up to Junior College? See Book Review of The Singapore Dilemma. Under 'Section 152' of the Singapore Constitution.
Furthermore doesn't the government pay for our education fees up to Junior College? See Book Review of The Singapore Dilemma. Under 'Section 152' of the Singapore Constitution.
So sadly what happened to the 27% of the Malay students who did not move on to post-secondary education? The financial burden is surely reduced right?
However, I won't entirely say racism is absent in Singapore. Just look at the newspapers and you will see under the employement classifieds 'must be billingual in English and Mandarin'
Gee... Look at the Army. Ehem...
So can it people! Stop blaming others for your own shortcoming! Take a look at what Cray-Z5200 said,
However, I won't entirely say racism is absent in Singapore. Just look at the newspapers and you will see under the employement classifieds 'must be billingual in English and Mandarin'
Gee... Look at the Army. Ehem...
So can it people! Stop blaming others for your own shortcoming! Take a look at what Cray-Z5200 said,
"The one thing that pisses me off about this general malaise (haha!
malay-se) is that there's always the idea that it's a general conspiracy
against the Malay race, that people are trying to keep the Malays
down.
F__K YOU.
Nobody owes you a living. Nobody is responsible for
you own failings except yourself. Even if there is some sort of conspiracy, that
attitude encourages people to not be proactive to do better. So go
ahead, keep blaming everyone except yourselves, and see if the unwanted
babies and dismal grades don't keep coming."
To comfort yourself people, read the annual reports in our dearest SM Mr Goh Chok Tong's speech regarding our progress since a decade ago (but notice he didn't compare it to the rest of the country's population... I wonder why? Gee...)
So before I leave, I will (blatantly copy and paste) leave you with a grim and dim parting words from Cray-Z5200,
"And that means, Foolish Mat Tapereds, Stupid Skinheads (do you even know what the original skinhead cause was about? If you did you wouldn't even dare to
be one) and Sluttish Minah Sexpots, that instead of worrying whether the
haircuts and the clothes complete the look and whether you're talking loud
enough for everyone to hear you, maybe you should start thinking about what
you're gonna be when you actually grow up. Which is a pity, because you're
probably about 25 already and with 2 kids."
Ouch...
Okay, here is a joke to ease the pain;
"How do you confuse a Mat?
Ans: Put him in a circular room and tell him to elak (relax) one koner (corner)"
Chill, Relaks- All in the name of fun
Lastest entry, Mats Boleh! Revisited....
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Mats Boleh! Part 2
Time: 2/02/2006 01:36:00 PM
Halo again, before you continue reading this entry, I suggest you read Part 1 first.
continued...
I heard this joke from a cheena good friend of mine,
What do Superman, Garfield and a smart Malay have in
common?
Ans: They are all fictitious characters...
Got the joke, I sure did... (but I can never get the row row your boat to dayung sampan joke, I mean that's a Peranakan song. Now, who has the last laugh huh?)
Anyway, back to the topic, I found one of the fictitious characters while I was surfing the net.
The smart Malay one. From what I gathered snooping in his blog, he was from RI, have loads of scholarships, Chinese-Malay mix (oh... that explains it!) and served as a 3rd Sergeant in the Army (let's call him Libertas). If you do want to read more intelligent arguments about the Malay dilemma and situations we are facing, I strongly recommend his blog entries (though bombastic they are)! Mine are just shallow and tongue-in-cheek. haha...
Libertas had written about the divorce rates among Malays in Singapore and the possible reasons as to why. Also, he mentioned something which is closer to home, early teen marriages and unwanted pregnancies (you put them together and you have 'shotgun marriages'.. Tadah...*applause)
One of my relative faced that situation. And guess what...(*drumrolls) he got a divorce 3 years after the marriage. And he is my age! 21! This is no laughing matter, cause the couple have a child who has to bear the brunt of a shattered home (what is more worrying is that, researchers found out that the problems with juvenile delinquents may have stemmed from broken families). hmm... And the cycle continues...
These unwanted (unplanned, I say) pregnancies stem from teenage premarital sex. Why can this problem still arise within our Malay (Muslim) community? Considering the way Islamic law punishes illicit sexual relations. Our Qur'an clearly spells out the related law;
" The woman and the man guilty of unlawful sex (adultery or fornication), flog each of them with a hundred stripes; let not compassion move you in their case in a matter prescribed by Allah if ye believe in Allah and the Last day; and let a party of the believers witness their punishment ". (24:2)
Of course these punishments are no longer relevant in our modern country (who cares rite?... rite...just wait till you die and go to hell).
Then why are teens tempted to taste this forbidden fruit?
"For youth who are sheltered by their parents from any significant contact
with the opposite sex, a chance encounter can result in a total loss of moral
judgment," said one person.
So true. Especially among Malay families in Singapore. (more on Muslim Youth and Sex) Other reasons (given by Libertas) include parents who marry off the children of the (often large) family "would lessen the burden on the parents economically and emotionally".
My cousin was my age when he got married. That was barely 2 years ago and he now has a 1 year old baby and his wife is heavily pregnant with another.
Also I had men from 3 Guards who are married with kids in tow and barely earning S$300 a month.
Libertas wrote,
"Sometimes I find it hard to fathom why some Malays marry at such an early age, not knowing what it entails being married to another and staring a family. I simply cannot imagine why they would want to get married when their incomes are still relatively unstable, or that they don't even have a home to begin with, or a tentative plan for the future for their family."
Exactly...
To make matters worst, this cousin of mine owns a car! (what? where the hell did he get the money from?) Another problem us Malays are facing are financial problems stemming from our spendthrift ways.
(look at me for example... haha)
"...is it a result of the attitudinal 'carpe diem' mentality of the Malay, to kais pagi makan pagi, kais petang makan petang, which gives no thought to their financial future? ...
With the emergence of the New Poor, fueled by the various 'buy now pay
later' schemes, Malays seem to have formed the bulk of this new social
grouping, leading purely hedonistic materialistic lifestyles of Plasma
screen televisions and room-to-toom air conditioning with a big fat zero in their bank accounts."
Again... spot on...
Wait I am not done yet...Wanna hear more? Tune in to Part 3...
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Mats Boleh! Part 1
Bitched on: Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Time: 2/01/2006 11:24:00 PM
I'm sorry but I feel its the appropiate time to come out of the closet. I've been keeping this from a lot of people. And I can't remain silent anymore...Time: 2/01/2006 11:24:00 PM
I am a racist.
I can't stand Malays. They irk and disgust me...
Like euuuw....
My idols are these dudes, 28-year-old Benjamin Koh Seng Huat and 25-year-old Nicholas Lim Yew who wrote on their blogs how they detest this bunch of misfits (on what's one of their blog name again, some Holocaust thingy, they removed it by the way) And they undeservingly were made to serve time in jail and some community service thingy at this Jamiyah place because Singapore government is like so against racism and all (rite...). I'm like, so gonna print a lot of this 'Free Benjy' or 'Free Nicky' T-shirts and get people on the streets (non-Malays of course) to sign my petition to release them...
(see here, under the header 8 Oct 2005)
Ya rite...
An idiot who is so daring to write hate messages about 14% of his country's population really deserves some credit for his bravery (ya, bravely dim-witted...)
And no, while I wasn't seriously saying I am against Malays (they are my own people for God's sake, and no, I'm not blind and I know I am brown, just so you know) I am, however, ashamed of the stigma we have. And who can blame them, it is us who made ourselves to be potrayed this way. Before you Malay readers protest and thump your chest chanting 'Hidup Melayu' (Live Malay, literally) and calling me 'kentang' (which means potato in Malay, implying that the person is westernised) or 'tak sedar diri' (shameless or something like that), hear me out.
Few years back when I was still in secondary school, I was having my hair cut at this Malay barbershop.
The barber asked me which school I was from and then he went on to ask me whether I was in Normal Academic or Normal Technical stream. I was in Special stream for your information (and no, I'm not proud of that. Makes me sound like an idiot or something. So I rather call myself Express-streamed).
A few years later when I was in junior college, the same barber asked me which ITE i got into.
And again when I went to the Army to serve NS, he asked me if I was serving in the Police or Civil Defence.
Get the picture?
(pardon me, my normal acad/tech and ITE friends)
Its a stereotype.
Just like these characteristics or behaviors of a stereotypical Mat
- Mats smoke
- Mats play and watch soccer
- Mats can play the guitar
- Mats ride a bike (or at least know how to)
Its so true, isn't it? At least two out of four of the above...
And Mats look like this
- Mats wear baggy or (God, what are they thinking) tapered jeans
- must accessorize with a trucker's cap
- or if not style the hair with wax into a mowhawk (or at least something like that) or even go skinhead!
- huge Aviator sunglasses to shield the eyes from those bad bad sunlight
- or simply stick with large white frame 'nerd' glasses
- having tattoos here and there wouldn't hurt
Am I spot on?
I have to say that all this totally does not describe me at all...(i'm guilty with the aviators... so sue me) So does this not make me a mat?
I used to find it insulting when people call me a mat. I used to see it as a degrading term to describe male Malays (with qualities stated above and many many more negatives one) but now I am slowly changing that perception.
While surfing the net trying to find the news about the two racist bloggers and what their blog name really were (can someone help me out), I came across this particular Malay blogger (let's call him Cray-Z5200) and he wrote,
"How do I put it nicely? I can't. When looking at the big
picture, a fair number of Malays are royally screwed up. And a lot of it is
true. Statistics don't lie."
Statistics don't lie? Like what my GP teacher would say, we can't make any statement without facts. Well, so where is the proof?
I did a bit of snooping and found that
- 19% of Malay Muslim marriages end up in divorce compared to 5.5% of the entire population
- Malays make up one in five teens aged 19 (and under) being married
- 13.8% of Malay Muslim brides are under 21 compared to 3.1% of the rest of the population's brides
- Malay girls are responsible for one in two teen births and one in three abortions among teens
- One in two teens who end up with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) is a Malay (oh no!!)
- a staggering one in five Malays have no educational qualification at all (what the hell?)
- only 2.76% of Malays hold managerial or other white collar positions compared to 14% of the entire population.
- only 1.9% of Malays do actually make it for tertiary studies compared to 11.7 % of the population
Bear in mind Malays make up only 14% of the entire Singapore population. And I am also trying to find the statistics to the ethnic breakdown on crime and drug abuse, which I won't be surprise to find us coming up tops...
(figures from above can be found here and also from Mr Zakir Hussain's article in the weekly Insight column)
Cray-Z5200 continues to say,
"...news reports of how bloody dismal our report card as a race is.
Unwanted pregnancies, drug abuse, academic performance, divorce rates, you name
it, we got it."
Yeah, we sure do.
Stay tuned for more bitchings... In Part 2.
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Year Of the Bitch!
Time: 2/01/2006 01:31:00 PM
Ola to all! I'm not just gonna sit quietly and let the change of the new lunar new year pass by. I'm gonna bitch about it of course!Nah.. I'm really not.
Erm... That's all I guess. Tune in to the next blog.
PS. And to all those bitches and sluts who keep looking at my friendster profile and keep requesting to be friends, PUT on clothes (not cleavage spilling ones) and take decent photos of yourself and add me only if you are my friend (I know you, you know me). And also to those guys (who really think they are studs topless), I AM NOT INTERESTED! Haha.
Ciao!
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