after some time back here… still cannot stand the damn heat in singapore.. where ever i go, i keep complaining about the sweltering sun that beats so fucking heavily on us… and what makes me even more heated is the most common response i hear is this “wah lau, don’t act lah.. live in algeria two years only.. you were in singapore for 25 man.. sure you must be used to it.”

man.. i tell you… if so, then why do the people in the the cold wear thermal clothing?? why do they insist on wearing 3, 4, 5 layers of jackets and such.. since they have lived in such conditions for such a bloody long time then should they not just wear t shirt and jeans instead??

i mean.. if it is hot, then no matter how you might want to deny, it is still unbearable mah and coupled that i have been in a temperate country for some time, of course i will complain right..

think they should really air con singapore…

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my life now is super decadent sia.. i drink, party and do crazy (stupid) stuff every other day.. wearing me out man.. think i should try to tone down a little.. but then i am going to NY soon and being a student i would probably not have the money to be so ‘tiong’.

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recently, on BBC radio (yeah, BBC is indeed my good friend) there was a program titled “do asians/blacks need to work twice as hard to be half as good as their white counterpart?”

this really strikes a chord with me and prompted me to think about two questions:

“when i go to NY, will this happen to me? am i willing to leave the “equal” standing i have here?” and

“does this happen to the malay and indian community in singapore?”

answers to these two questions are so difficult… and i do not have the access too.. but it remains an intriguing question, especially the latter one. are we singaporeans, after years to communal assimilation, color blind enough to not notice the color of our colleagues? or indeed friends?

woman rights has always (if the word ‘always’ is not politically right, then at least in my time of existence) enjoyed certain sympathies, even in singapore, where such questions are ‘allowed’ to be fielded by the straits times in the recent cabinet reshuffle.

and in that article, the glaring miss point was about the minority representation. why was this not highlighted? nor debated? was it too contentious to do so? by evading this question, we cannot address the drift within our community.

are we truly equal?