As expected…

some nincompoop, in this case, perf, commented on the previous post.

I’m not going to justify myself, don’t assume I’m 18 or blog like one, don’t assume I have never read and/ or analysis the Bible and don’t assume that I’m going to hell, the way I won’t assume that you are Christian, or perhaps you are,  I won’t assume you are a fundamentalist/ fanatic/ etc, but perhaps you are.

What you perf are, that’s not important.  What’s important is, you’ve probe me to bring up 3rd point:

3) Somehow, any comments on Christianity, or any religion, seems to be always made by anonymous or idiots behind nicknames….
Just read forums, or any blog post, or any online articles that touch on religion, and you’ll find assholic ppl commenting behind nicknames.  What the hell…. I mean, if you dare to pen all those words, dare yourselves to stand by the words.  Ya ya, attack back at me for being a hypocrite by not revealing myself by posting as a bottle, that’s such a convenience right?

Okay, okay… let’s erase point 3 and ‘play’ on level field.  Let me point out again point 1) and 2) with reference to the clip from my previous post (http://thatbottle.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/christians-who-like-to-cite-bibles-balik-kampung-lar/).  SOME Christians simply love to cite all over the Bible, but let’s take just Exodus and tell me all the justifications to the modern world.  I shall ‘reduce’ myself as a 18 year old, and be all ready to be enlightened, so please enlighten me.  And since SOME Christians love to cite all over the Bible, do let me know of application of justificitions to the rest of the Bible.  No double standard please…  And again, please (I’m just being courtesy here by being humble) don’t assume I don’t read the different versions of Bible *roll eyes*.

p.s. I’ve nothing against Christianity, but Christians who try to be funny and have their own agendas.
p.s.s. This is my blog- please respect that foremost- and thus I’m at my own discretion to approve or disapprove comments.  Intelligent comments will get through, stupid comments won’t, with the except of perf’s, just so that I can prove my point what’s considered stupid-ly full of assumptions and crap.

Christians who like to cite bibles, balik kampung lar~~

I love this clip so so very much, it brings up two things which I really frown upon:

1) bible verse-citing beings
So many a time, verses from bible were held with esteem and brought out of context by some Christians.  I really hate it when they throw all that to my face and expect me to respond the way they wanted to.  The truth is, they kept oh-so-quiet about so many other verses.  Or perhaps, they didn’t even know those degrading verses exist, like women are not suppose to wear man clothing (so the Bible say, woman should never wear pants okay?), etc etc.  And truth is, these people have personal agendas and they are basically hiding behind those verses, saying that the Bible says so… Crap…

2) I’m better than you because I’m a Christian
How many times have you encounter such vibes from Christians in general?  Okay, I shall not speak on behalf of anyone, and that’s not my intention.  That’s just a rhetorical question.  But personal, YES! I’ve encountered so many Christians who ooze those vibe when they learn that I’m not a Christian.  That’s what exactly the lady was thinking, by the way she talks, by the fact that she didn’t even see the courtesy of standing up when the President is in the room when everyone is standing…  So so many times, I’ve gotten this “Oh, so you are not a Christian….Bleah” look.  Ive always brushed that aside.  But from now on, I shall question them right upfront.  In fact, I don’t even need to say it out loud that I’m a non-Christian, as I wear “this-orange-string-thingy-around-my-wrist”.   If anyone dares to give me a degrading look, I’ll ask straight on:   Are you a Christian?  If the answer is Yes, then I’ll just make a comment: You are judging me, and only God can judge.  You think you are God? Romans, 14:1-13

AWARE:; questions been raised on EGM

THis is taken from http://akikonomu.blogspot.com/2009/05/inquiring-minds-want-to-know-caine-teo.html

Is the AWARE saga over? it shouldn’t been, it should be the beginning…

 

 

As we celebrate our victory over the forces of Feminist Mentor, we urge people to review their memories of that hard-fought battle. It was a difficult battle despite the one-sided result.

Over the past few days, we have received reports from people who attended the EGM at Suntec. As we review their accounts with the reports from twitter by articulate bloggers, the Wayang Party and The Online Citizen, it appears the battleground was stacked against their favour.

We draw attention to the events management company behind the EGM: Ape Communications, and its boss Caine Teo.

We direct the following questions to Ape Communications and Caine Teo, and encourage interested parties to send these in writing to Ape Communications, 32 Eng Hoon Street, Singapore 169780 or ask@ape.sg:

1. The original venue for the EGM was to have been Expo, right next to an evangelical rally.

As the event manager of Aware, was this venue choice your decision, or was it a decision on the part of the Aware exco?

2. At the EGM at Suntec, it appears that supporters of the Aware exco, clad in red t-shirts, had volunteered to set up and man the venue as early as 9am.

Was it your decision as event manager to allow only redshirt supporters to volunteer for the venue preparation?

Was it your decision as event manager to reject and eject the Old Guard and their supporters as volunteers for the venue preparation?

3. When the seating began, a huge group of redshirts were made to go into the hall first, as a collective. After which, the queue was operated in a first-come-first served manner.

As event manager, could you explain the rationale for the decision to let the redshirts enter the hall first?

4. When the EGM started, and for almost the entire duration of the EGM, microphones at the back and middle of the hall were turned off completely.

As event manager, could you explain why this was so? As events manager, could you justify this decision, as anyone who has attended corporate AGMs and EGMs will tell you it’s bad form to turn off any microphone in a hall?

5. During the EGM, the microphones were constantly switched off in the middle of questions by speakers who interrogated the new exco’s policies and attitudes toward homosexuality.

Was control of the microphones under your purview as events manager? Could you explain why the microphones seemed to work in the interests of the exco, and not the members of the organisation?

6. We note the presence of AETOS Security Management Pte Ltd auxiliary police for the event. It is unfortunate that the overwhelming impression was that the AETOS personnel functioned more as the private bodyguards and enforcers of the will of the Aware exco, instead of keeping the peace and security on both ends.

Was control of the auxiliary police under your purview as events manager?
Could you explain why the AETOS personnel appeared to work under the orders of the exco, and not as security personnel?
Could you clarify the role under which AETOS personnel were engaged for the event?

7. At 9.10 pm, Josie Lau goes on stage with the statement “We have decided to graciously step down. We wish Aware all the best. I declare the meeting closed.” And the microphones in the hall were all shut down following this statement.

As event manager, were you in charge of the microphones? If you weren’t, who was?
As event manager, were you aware that as of her statement to step down, Josie Lau no longer had the power to declare the meeting closed?

8. On your girlfriend’s blog (screencap here), she mentioned being privvy to “new and unpublished insights” about the Aware situation because of your involvement. She clarifies on her blog that you shared with her your worries and how your day went.

As event manager, did you discuss break client confidentiality in discussing the Aware issue with your girlfriend?

As event manager, were you provided information by the Aware exco that were in excess to what you needed to know? How much information did you pass on to your girlfriend?

9. As event manager, would you say that you have provided a fair, neutral, and unbiased event management for a highly polarised EGM?

For all readers who attended the EGM on Saturday: Do feel free to leave your impressions and additional questions of the event management on the blog, or email me through the usual channels. I will, with permission, reproduce them here, with names withheld upon request.

Updates:
6 May 2009: NMP Siew Kum Hong reports on his personal experience of the deliberately tilted playing field of the EGM and its wide variance from the law and practice of meetings.

 

So, will those questions above be answered?  If not, the old ‘new guard’ will remain condemned, and the new ‘old guard’ will remain as toothless… and again, the question, what happened to the accountability of SGD90,000?

be AWARE!!!

AWARE saga over? It should not

AWARE EGM on 02 May 09 certainly shows passion and concern of women in Singapore, of their rights and representatives.  Not only that, they showed appreciation of transparency, hard work and trust.

The old ‘new guard’ was condemned as to have not shown nothing regarded as trust, transparent, diversity, relevant, leadership, civilized through their action or words.

Moving forward, I would think that these questions or issues need to be addressed:

1) Accountability
SGD90,000 has been spent in just such minute period- as compared to the years of history of AWARE- during the old ‘new guard’ management as compared to meetings using second-hand-furniture-and-straw-mat-sitting when AWARE first started.  Josie Lau, Charlotte Wong, Maureen Ong, Jenica Chua, Sally Ang, Lois Ng, Irene Yee all need to held responsible on how the money was spent, especially in the current global financial uncertainty and especially so since AWARE is an NGO.  The $$ spent, is not for those women to spend in such manner, the $$, could have been channelled to better cause.  And based on membership increased, someone brought up that AWARE still ‘earned’ SGD30,000 as the membership increased would give AWARE an additional SGD120,000 based on SGD40 per annum membership fee.  But the truth is, SGD120,000 is per annum, meaning in a month, the allowed $$ to be spent should SGD10,000.  As the old ‘new guard’ has spent SGD90,000, it means that they have spent 9 months’ allocated fund!  It means for at least half a year, AWARE has no $$ to work on.  And to take it that the president from the old ‘new guard’ is working with a bank, a financial company, as vice president and that the hononary treasurer has a first class honours degree in accountancy and has 30 years of experience in finance, tax and treasury management in various industries… spending SGD90,000 in just about a month is so inefficient and shows incapability of leadership.  Account for all that please…

On accountability, besides the money spent, the new exco and speaking parties need to be accounted for their claims.  Dr Thio Su Mien, the self-proclaimed “feminist mentor” of the old ‘new guard’ has been contacted by MOE about the inappropriateness of AWARE programme at schools.  MOE has stated, no public member has complained, and Dr Thio herself has not complained to MOE, in verbal or written before the AWARE saga.  I would think that the Singapore nation would demand for a clear cut response, especially in view that she was never ever being remembered as being part of AWARE or any feminist group in Singapore who stands for the rights of Singaporean women besides being mentioned in a publication.  The old ‘new exco’ members also claim that they are reverting back to the original course of AWARE.  Until now, none of them has never addressed that.  They did not reveal any concrete plans or programmes that prove their points.  They can still do now, though the relevance of them disclosing their programme is of another issue.

Though MOE has suspended and is going to review all the sexual programmes conducted in schools, Dr Thio still should be demanded a respond to her claims and her actions.  She should also respond as to why she did not lodge complains to MOE.

2) Constitution
The constitution of AWARE or any organisation needs to be relooked into to prevent such coup and to allow transparency.  The new ‘old guard’ needs to fine-tune the constitution such that hideous and unforeseen takeover such as the recent chapter would not happen again.  The constitution should not allow irrelevant members and questionable members who have never contribute to the course of the organisation to take over the organisation itself.

The constituency should also include transparency and accountability.  For example, though free media was not allowed to record the EGM, an official media should be appointed for transparency and accountability sake.  And the question on the SGD90,000 spent by the old ‘new guard’ needs to be addressed and this has to be included in the constitution as well.

Fundamentally,  the question was asked ‘I don’t understand what has become of our people.’  The answer is pretty simply:  The uncivilised coup by a certain group of people was not and will not be appreciated by the multi-racial, mulit-religious and complex Singapore due to the lack of trust and transparency.  The respect to such coup shall be non-existence and shall not be entertained.  That is the answer, and that is the message, and that is the lesson to be learnt by the one or others who dare to comment as such.

3) Other organisations
Other organisations should take note of such takeover…  All organisations should review their constitution and ensure that uncivilized takeover would not happen.  Arguing on moral ground is gonna be weak, so please, ensure your member recruitment, your exco election, etc are fool-proof.  Specifically to AWARE, those fundamentalists Christians manage to hijack legally… it’s so damn sad and wrong, but it’s legal… so please, learn from the AWARE saga.  Protect organisations from overzelous one-single-minded groups with hidden agenda…

What I wish to see from the new ‘old guard’ are: The old ‘new guard’ should not be let off the hook so easily.  They have to pay, and please include that Dr. Thio as well.  Make all of them pay, pay, pay… They won’t go bankrupt, no worries about that, coz if they don’y have personal funds to handle all the payback, i’m sure their church wuld rally for help…  And please, no sympathy to them too, afterall, they took the takeover simply as a business transaction, so regard what the old ‘new guard’ did as business, and those ladies simply did not handle the business well; simply firing them is not enough, as this is an NGO and there’s a need for accountability, besides proving that the new ‘old guard’ has the fangs for accountability.

What’s next? What’s next?  The public and AWARE members are interested to know, at least I know I am…

Mas Selamat… my thoughts

So finally, Mas Selamat is captured.

If you are asking who the hell is he?  Read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas_Selamat_bin_Kastari

Not sure what’s the coverage was in Malaysia, but in the land of the small dot, manyak manyak hoo-haa last year when that fella escaped from detention centre.  Why the hoo-haa?  Imagine, a terrorist who got arrested in Indonesia, then freed, then arrested again, then handed to Singapore and then escaped, only to be captured after about 14 months later in Malaysia.  That man is in his late 40s, and with a limp.  But he managed to escape some detention centre in Singapore.  So the Singapore public was asking, how come? how come? how come?  And the question was not just, how come he escaped, but also how come the immediate actions were not so immediate.  And of course lar, Singapore tried to ‘do its best’, and as a result, so much resources were channelled to hunting the limping guy, from poster printing and mobilization of army personnel…  And the inconvenience caused at immigration, the general public was simply biting their lips and thought to themselves:  We know this is a must, to capture this one terrorist, but going through the immigration is a hassle now… WTF….

When Feb 2009 comes by, articles in newspaper and blogs come by, to remind Singapore about the security lapse.  Truth is, no one really forgot, at least I didn’t… especially with statement like “he is either in Singapore or not Singapore” was made,  i mean, come on, that kinda statement is such an insult to any sane mind.  Ass-covering indeed… Mas Selamat could be found on Venus and that statement would still stand valid…. Gosh!!!

Anyway… questions on the escape were eased, not answered directly.  And with the capture of Mas Selamat, all the parties involved would start waving the ‘victory flag’, that he’s finally captured.  Just read the papers, and you’ll read about how much ‘aid’ and ‘help’ and ‘intelligence’ provided leading to the capture in Malaysia.  I mean, whatever lar…  The truth remains, he escaped in the first place, and that the general public was inconvenienced because of that…

And so, what’s gonna happen next?  There will be extensive reports on Mas Selamat, amidst the AWARE or the swine flu or the economy situation…  You know lar, all the damage control…

But what if, just what if, just what if, Mas Selamat is deported back in Singapore, or in the midst of deporting back to Singapore, Mas Selamat escapes again!!!  Such unthinkable situation right?  But he’s Mas Selamat, and he’s a proven escape artist.  So let’s just assume, he manages to escape, even if it means that he’s captured within an hour…  I dunno about you, but I’ll certainly be shaking my head…

Once, is a mistake, twice, we are made a fool…

My advice, there’s certainly no room for mistake at all… at all…  at all!

Kudos on the capture, now to address the inconvenience and to rectify all the actions that lead to the capture…..