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Reform Party “Gala and Movie Night”

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Rachel invited me to this event several weeks ago. It is a film screening organised by the Women’s Wing of the Reform Party.

Since I generally have nothing much to do on weekends I decided to go to the event, which was at the Sinema Old School (at Mount Sophia) on 27 November 2010. Because it’s a long way in, and we have never been there in the past, we met up for coffee at Raffles City first before taking a cab in.

We arrived around 6:10pm and after identifying that we have brought the tickets for the event, we were given a goodie bag which also comes with the party’s first issue of ‘New Dawn’ and a small sticker for identification. Since I don’t know much of the people there, I generally kept to myself while Rachel pointed out to me some of the people well known on local blogosphere, such as an editor of The Online Citizen, and the author of Yawning Bread. Some other well known personalities who are present include the Reform Party’s (RP) Secretary Kenneth Jeyaretnam, along with Leong Tze Hian and British author Alan Shadrake, who is currently charged for ‘criminal defamation’. I joked with Rachel that one of the guy who stood apart all by himself may probably be an ISD agent though it is really unlikely an ISD agent would be so easily spotted.

We ate a little of the buffet and generally stayed in the air-conditioned shop until it was our turn to be seated for the movie – “Match made” by Mirabelle Ang.

The movie is actually a documentary about a 39-year-old Singaporean guy called Ricky who went to Vietnam to get a bride. Some parts were quite funny, especially when the girls are paraded before Ricky, very much like mamasans parade their girls to their customers in night clubs. Ricky will then ‘short list’ one or a few girls from each selection and I had to respect the girl’s courage and determination to look for a better life elsewhere even though I felt it was a little demeaning for those Vietnamese ladies. Many of these girls are almost 2 decades younger and the guy was always checking whether their year of birth, rejecting some when their Chinese zodiacs are not compatible.

From the ‘short listed’ ones, a translator will translate the questions from Ricky and the answers from the girls. The questions generally surround whether they are willing to live with the potential groom’s parents or why they wanted to marry out of Vietnam. In the end only two were selected and they were then taken to a clinic for a checkup the next day, ostensibly for diseases and whether they have been working girls. In my opinion, the main objective is a virginity check. When the matter was brought up, the Singaporean matchmaker (a Taiwanese married to a Vietnamese woman) vehemently denied being sexists and pointing out he is a father of three daughters.

Either way, once the final girl was selected, the movie went on to show the customary ceremony the couple has to go through in Vietnam. After the wedding dinner, Ricky returned to Singapore alone and the team then took us to the home and family of the bride called Nhanh. It also talked about how the girls are introduced to the matchmakers, and how much money her family gets (a measly US$350 – roughly 5,000,000 đồng, if I recalled correctly) from the matchmaker. As the bride cannot immediately join her husband in Singapore, it talked about how long it will take to apply the visas for the bride.

It will be at least 5 months before Nhanh arrives in Singapore, and the movie then ended abruptly. I will not reveal the ending so everyone can go watch it for themselves.

After the movie, there was a short speech by Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, an introduction to some of the members of the Women’s Wing, the Reform Party followed by a impromptu speech given by Hazel Poa – the RP’s first lady candidate for this coming election. I would say by the qualifications of these candidates – all of which are professionals with high academic qualifications, the Tali-PAP can no longer denigrate the opposition parties for failing to field talents. Anyway, I have never given much weight to a person’s qualifications as a party’s candidate as I am in the considered opinion that having good qualifications would simply show a person is well trained in a particular field, not necessarily a definitive measure of a person’s talents or intelligence. The seemingly close association of some of RP’s members with Dana Lam, the current president of AWARE where one male member mentioned that he was part the legal advisors which put Dana Lam and her team into place caused me some unease. A brief thought crossed my mind when I recalled that the author of Yawning Bread, who is known to be openly pro-homosexual, is also at the event. (I will touch on that thought later.)

This was followed by an auction which brought much joy and laughter to those present. I won’t touch too much on the auctions themselves other than to mention that it is very similar to people bidding to have dinner with Warren Buffet. In these case, members of the Reform Party will provide either a free dental service, legal counselling, etc for the highest bidder. All of the proceeds from the auctions will go into the RP’s funds for the coming election campaign.

Rachel and I checked the merchandise briefly once the auction is done but we made our way off soon after.

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Now back to the matter of my brief thought. The entire hullabaloo surrounding the so-called AWARE ‘coup’ in 2009 and the subsequent counter-coup left me with a bitter aftertaste. While all consider it as religious fundamentalists attempting to subvert a secular organisation, few would remember the so-called ‘coup’ also revealed undesirable sex education content which were slipped into some of our schools by that organisation.

With that in mind, the thought of AWARE subverting the RP through members of its Women’s Wing which has swelled in numbers briefly crossed my mind after the names Dana Lam and AWARE were mentioned more than once. While I vehemently object to the Tali-PAP’s immigration and housing policies in specific (and somewhat agree with Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s views on those matters in the first issue of ‘New Dawn’), I will feel uncomfortable casting my vote for anyone who seems to be closely associated with AWARE.

I asked myself, does the RP have other agendas other than those already made public? Would the RP pick up where Siew Kum Hong has left off? As far as I am concerned, an NMP making a big fuss over Section 377A was bad enough. An elected MP with the backing of voters gnawing on that again will be even more unappealing.

After all, while the current immigration and housing policies are unpleasant and they entail material hardships, they are not quite as unacceptable as any attempts which will threaten to unravel the fabric of our society. The threat that I maybe party to putting candidates into Parliament, whom I suspect might go against my views of a stable society and also my freedom of faith, will weigh heavily in my voting decision.

Random Discourse – Singapore Dreaming

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No, this is not a post about a movie of the same title by Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen. Though personally, I would recommend the movie and suggest to anyone to pick up a copy and watch it if they can find it in a DVD store.

This is a post inspired by an article on Today by the same name – to imagine what our island nation could be like 20, 30 years from now. And I realised, I have much to dream about, and perhaps it is too much to ask. But we are all entitled to our dreams, aren’t we?

Firstly, I dream of a Singapore where the leaders are more down to earth and closer to the people. A nation where our leaders would no longer justify their high pay according to their alleged talents. Frankly, just what does a surgeon know about education and a former Brigadier General about diplomacy?

I dream of a Singapore where decisions are not always made based on monetary cost and benefits, but always for the betterment of our collective lives. If a decision has to be made that way, at least we will be shown the bill, and be allowed to decide whether we want to pay it. I dream of a Singapore where Singaporeans do not sell themselves short and are not treated as daft and incapable of making their decisions by an old man who refuses to step down and go when all his contemporaries had.

I dream of a Singapore, where her true history would be told. A history where everyone’s contribution in our struggle for Merdeka will be told in full. A history where the story of David Marshall, Lim Chin Siong and even the now defunct Barisan Sosialis can be told without bias.

I dream of a Singapore where there is greater accountability and people who has failed will take responsibility and go. From failed investments in town councils to Temasek Holdings and the GIC, and also the failure of the PUB into taking account of the effect of landscape change in Orchard Road on their two decade old drainage system – Singapore would like to see some integrity in owning up to failures when one has the cheek to demand a better and a higher pay compared to the private sector.

I dream of a Singapore where public housing is truly affordable and truly subsidised. The subsidies should not be based on how much ‘losses’ suffered by the goverment gahmen had that same plot of land be sold to a private developer. I dream of flats that will no longer diminish in floor area while prices continue to soar. I simply dream of a Singapore, where a new generation will not be a slave to own their homes.

I dream of a Singapore, where public projects are above politics, where no part of our city-nation will be turned into slums because their residents have a different opinion in how the country is run and the direction our nation is taking. Surely, even opposition voters pay their income taxes and they are also subjected to GST and property taxes?

I dream of a Singapore where we will not have to squeeze like sardines on trains, where the operators of our public transports will be less rigid in their schedule. Service improvement should be always ongoing and not an annual affair. After all, does the SMRT not know after all these years that there will be an increased load when SunTec holds conventions? Yet, it continually stick to a dead schedule and run trains at shit intervals simply because it is a weekend. (I certainly don’t have to be an Oracle to predict that the City Hall MRT Station will be jammed pack after the National Day Parade today either.)

All in all, I dream of a country that I can really call my own.

Happy Birthday, Singapore. Here’s a toast to your true father – Dr Goh Keng Swee.

May our country remain strong and free, resolute in doing what is right in the eyes of God, forever and ever until our Lord Jesus returns. Amen.

Recommended Reads:
My Queenstown: Alexandra Hospital Part 1/3: The Origins
My Queenstown: Alexandra Hospital Part 2/3: Pre-1971
The Itch To Write: Love your country, fly the flag!

Daily Discourse – Outsourcing Went Bad

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The failure of DBS Bank’s electronic banking services reminds me of an incident that is rarely known by the public but told to me by a friend who is a UNIX administrator. It was a classic example of outsourcing went bad. The following is the account of the incident, but the names of the company and the internationally acclaimed vendor are changed (for obvious reasons).

This is the story:

It was during one fine night shift, when a data centre operator delete *.* accidentally. According to her own confession, she thought she was deleting files in a folder. Unfortunately for her, she was actually in the root directory when she did so. (For the uninitiated, the root directory is sort of like the main trunk of the tree. In short, while she thought she was cutting off a useless branch, she had actually chopped the whole tree down.)

The result of her action was disastrous. She effectively wiped out the OS and the mount-points on the SANs etc. Almost 4.3 TB (Terabytes – i.e. 4 x 1012 bytes) of files were deleted. Unlike the command prompt in Windows, where one can terminate a bad command with CTRL-C or CTRL-BREAK or close it down with Task Manager, a command executed in UNIX just keep going until the job is done.

So, even if she had realised her mistake and tried to stop it, she can’t. 23 Servers all across MNC X which were connected to the same SAN volumes (all affected by her erroneous command) went down immediately. Slowly the other servers were affected. The final ‘body count’: 168 servers of MNC X in that data centre were affected. The end result, nobody from any country, in any outlets / offices, could connect back to MNC X. It is simply an IT Black Day.

Best of it all, this happened somewhere around midnight and that gave the operator time to cover up what she did. She quickly modified whatever log files she has access to and deleted all her entries. So when the monitoring system (which is miraculously still functional) sent alerts to the ‘owners’ of each affected system, the tech guys who were awaken discovered to their own dismay they couldn’t login remotely (since theirs servers are all down). They were left with no choice but to drag their tired bodies back on site.

It took all of them almost 3 hours to be back on site, and they found no trace of what happened and could only scratch their heads since the log files were manipulated. Even more puzzling was that the redundancy failed – the backup systems had not kick in.

To cut the long story short, MNC X was left with no choice but to restore from backups so they can bring all their systems back online. It was over 15 hours later before they finally restored some semblance of order to the entire IT infrastructure. Meantime, Vendor Y launched an investigation and ultimately a guru in UNIX administration discovered the log files manipulations and even found out exactly who did it.

The saddest part of it all was that MNC X never discover the truth, even though MNC X probably also lost millions that day since it also has offices in other parts of the world which is still running. According to Vendor Y’s findings, the reason why the redundant systems didn’t kick in was a result of the backup systems being too old and they no longer matched the same configuration as the primary systems. (Doesn’t that sound almost as ridiculous as the reason DBS gave in their official statement – an upgrade – as to the cause of the break down of ALL their electronic banking services?)

That was of obviously the many droppings of a bull’s behind. After all, any IT technical person worth his salt would have asked what the heck vendor Y has been doing if it has not implemented hardware and / or software upgrades to the redundant systems to keep them up to date! They would have taken the vendor to court and sue them for a substantial amount of damages.

The story gets even better from here. The culprit was totally untouched because she has been Vendor Y’s perm staff for 20 over years. Instead, a contract staff was made the scapegoat and fired to appease MNC X.

What is most ultimate to this sad story of outsourcing went bad was that the contract staff who got fired was one of the three UNIX gurus who discovered who altered the damned logs. I personally suspect that the story doesn’t end here. Vendor Y probably convinced MNC X and sold it yet another several million dollar worth of hardware to ‘make sure this will never happen again’. (Note: The part about the vendor profiting from this fiasco is just my own speculation, not that it actually happened.)

When I looked at the magnitude of the staggering damage caused by Vendor Y in this major fxxk-up, the lack of dedication of the staff hired by the vendor which my current employer outsourced some of its IT services to paled by comparison. After all, the minor delays caused by these morons who simply didn’t put themselves in the shoes of our business users is nothing compared to what MNC X suffered in that one single morning.

Commentary – It’s Just A Device

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Every month, manufacturers probably release some new mobile phones or the upgraded model of a best seller. Following that will be the media hype on both conventional and social media. Every one of these products will be touted as being feature rich and a productivity enhancer to the user. Both your audio and video senses will be bombarded by advertisements emphasizing on these features. More often than not, the device is made to look cool, and all of them are designed to make you want to get the device. But do you really need it?

Looking beyond all the hype from the media, you will notice that all of them are short on user experience. Very rarely you get a live example of a real user talking about how the features on the phone have been a productivity enhancer. That is not surprising, given the fact that everyone of us have very different needs and applications for a particular feature.

Take for example the ability to install applications onto the phone. From my experience as a Blackberry user, I discover that the traders would love to get onto their Blackberry applications such as Bloomberg, or Reuters, which feed live market data to their handset. Meanwhile, other users might want Instant Messaging programs (for ease of contact with their friends), or time-killing games for keeping them occupied during their daily commute. Since the Blackberry is given to users in the office (including myself) for work purposes whether we liked it or not, it really would make no difference had it been a phone running on Windows Mobile or some other OS, as long as we still get to read our mails on the go and it won’t be a pain in the butt installing or using those applications. Surprisingly, in spite of the learning curve in using a Blackberry, over time we have grown to like the device we have been given, even though originally we hated being given a device that keeps us within the easy reach of work matters.

From this experience, I realized that no matter how many features a device has, they are often useless when they are not used. A device is thus only ‘good’ or ‘superior’, depending on how easy it is for us to use that feature. For example, if it takes User A four steps to get to a feature while it took you only 1 step to get to it on the same device, then to User A, the interface would be ‘stupid’ while to you, this is the best device in the world available. In fact, even though a certain device may contain certain advanced features, has anyone given much consideration as to just how often one would use those features and whether those features alone would justify the cost? All that, without even considering if it is doing better in the features already available in other phones!

That brings me to the point – it’s just a device (or gadget, whatever you want to call it). It really doesn’t matter who the manufacturer is. What really matters is how (well) you use it. Never let people hoodwinked you into believing one device is cooler or greater than the others because who manufactured / used it. After all, when you strip away all the emotions and all the hype, it is really just another device even though you can delude yourself you are experiencing your superstar or idol, or being much more superior than the average joe out there when using a particular device they endorse. (Is there someone out there who only eats a particular brand of ice cream cone because JJ Lim endorses it? I doubt it would taste better than the rest.)

To emphasize my point, take for e.g. the iPhone and the Blackberry Storm. The Blackberry storm definitely losses out as far as the browser is concerned, even though both didn’t sport a full fledged browser themselves. In short, netbook computers would be the closest mobile device you can think of to do some of the things you can do on a computer. Still, the Blackberry will win hands down in the email feature, the ease of application deployment, and even implementation of security – a legacy from generations of Blackberry phones in the market. The Blackberry Storm may also lose out being an entertainment tool – as a music player or a game device, but then the Blackberry Storm is originally built as a PDA phone with Enterprise email solution. Even for the iPhone, if the only features that can be said as superior is the browser and being a music player, then one might as well just get an iTouch (essentially, an iPhone without the phone), and I shall stop here without going further into asking just why an iTouch (or other iPods) is much superior than the products Creative manufactures, or even the Zune in certain key performance indicators – such as sound quality. In fact, if the iPhone is to be touted as some kind of game or music device, then how is it more superior in those features compared to a NDS / PSP, or the Walkman series of phones from Sony Ericsson respectively?

Consumers today are so overwhelmed by the media and feature rich devices that many are no longer buying equipment based on their needs. Very often we get queries from friends as to what to buy and none of us are any the wiser. Most often than not some people will suggest to buy what is cool while they are short on specifics on why one should buy it. In the end while some may live to like what they bought, some become an utter nuisance by continually calling up their friends to find out how to use certain features. Some may even experience the pain of re-learning how to use a certain feature which used to be a breeze on the previous device.

Based on the fact that every product out there is just another device, as a consumer one shouldn’t be too concerned with what features the device offers (most offered more of the same), but be more concerned on how those features can meet one’s needs. For example, browsing the web on the go would mean having the phone’s browser displaying the page nicely and a large screen is important. Being able to store lots of media (music or video) or install programs would mean large device memory, and preferably expandable as much as possible. Many devices comes with fixed memory, like 8MB or 16MB etc and then ‘obsolete themselves’ on the release of an upgraded model. Such devices should not be considered if possible – all the more so if you are an advocate in saving the environment and the Earth since they actually exploiting the Earth’s dwindling resources and contributing to more waste.

Once you have short listed the few phones that meets your needs (and also your budget), the next thing you should do is perhaps go down to a shop (or borrow a friend’s) and try them out. Find out whether they meet your expectations and also how easy it is to use those features. There is no use of having a device with a convoluted interface, which requires you to jump through multiple hoops of fire before you can get the feature to work. The next best way to do this would be to look up on the web responses from users who already own such a device, or videos on Youtube demonstrating them. In other words, there is no need to rush in and be an early adopter, for all you know the device might even be buggy and unwieldy.

It is also necessary to find out whether it is easy to port certain information from your current phone to the new one, if you store them on the phone memory instead of the simcard. As far as I know, user information portability has always been a pain. Even though both devices might sync with Outlook or a comma separated value (.csv) file, there is no guarantee you will not need to resort to some wizardry, or make certain modifications before they are imported properly.

Finally, after deciding on the device, you might want to check whether it is cheaper to switch to another telco, and whether they are freebies that will come with it. Simply put, damn the hype, fxxk the media, be yourself and not follow the herd.

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FoxTwo’s Ramblings: Why All The Hype About iPhone?

Daily Discourse: Christianity vs Homosexuality

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Set piece (n) – A situation, activity, or speech planned beforehand and carried out according to a prescribed pattern or formula.

From the debate on Section 377A, to FOTF, to the current squabble at AWARE, each and everytime, Christianity found itself caught in a set piece and in the defensive. Christians are vilified as homophobes, called names, portrayed as uncaring bigots, insensitive, backwards, and brainless religious fanatics by their ‘Christian-o-phobe’ opponents.

In everyone of those situations, extremist elements of the LGBT community deliberately set the stage and define the tone of the debate – i.e. Christianity vs Homosexuality. Christians and protestant churches are sadly drawn into a meaningless debate and repeatedly portrayed as the main enemy of homosexuality. But in essence, Christians have almost no need to respond to these allegations and when they feel compelled to do so, they can respond in a manner in which they do not compromise on their core beliefs and yet avoid the labeling.

Take Section 377A for example. When the Council of Churches made their stand clear about homosexuality, Christians are therefore caught in the jaws of the vice of ‘Christianity vs Homosexuality’.

Section 377A was introduced in 1938 to criminalise all other non-penetrative sexual acts between men. ‘Gross indecency’ is a broad term which, from a review of past cases in Singapore, has been applied to mutual masturbation, genital contact, or even lewd behaviour without direct physical contact.

How the matter degenerated into one of Christians vs Homosexuals is quite beyond me. It is a law that specifically criminalise male homosexual acts in public, not one that targets the entire LGBT.

Perhaps like I was for some time, this is confused with the now repealed Section 377 which also covered sodomy. However, Section 377 in particular is not a homosexual specific law, but would also target heterosexuals performing those acts – for e.g. a husband forcing his unwilling wife into sodomy or fellatio or a pervert sodomising a little boy. Granted, that other legislations may be used to covered these aspects, Church / Christians would have done better to point out that this is the core matter they want to defend, which may thus find more acceptance among even non-Christians, and leave the extremists of the LGBT to scream at the four winds. On top of which, Section 377 in particular covers also other manners of sexual acts repulsive to most human beings – necrophilia, bestiality and pedophilia.

Thus, when I looked at how the debate continue to degenerate and the deeper Christians / Church falls into the trap, it really makes me wonder that whether Christians fall into the logic trap that their morality is superior to that of non-believers and even if that maybe true – do they actually believe that non-believers are completely lacking in morality? Even those who do not believe have a certain conscience too, yes? Clearly there are certain things that even common people would find repulsive and Christianity would do a lot better pointing that out! Even when not everyone can be made a Christian, Jesus commanded us to be the salt and light of the world and isn’t doing our part to prevent a further slide into immorality doing just that?

And before any one starts screaming that I am saying that homosexuality is immoral, let me explain. Take for e.g. when Christians brought up the matter of the spread of AIDS or STD/VDs as a point in defense, they should point out the core issue here is opposition to promiscuity. And promiscuity not only among homosexuals, but also heterosexuals. At the very minimum, even when Christianity may not agree with LGBT, Christianity is still for faithfulness between partners, and the question now to those LGBT beating their chest against Christianity will be – Are you in support of a promiscuous lifestyle that even when most parts of society disagree?

Christians should really waste no more time debating why there is an issue with homosexual sex when it is sex between two consenting adults. After all, as much as homosexuals are entitled to how they want their sex life to be, Christians are entitled to their right to disagree. It is the same as how Christians would disagree with a compulsive gambler or one going to the prostitutes but we see far less conflict coming from that. So, let’s freaking just agree to disagree, forever, and move on to the next and more important issue. Is it not the same with homosexuals, when even most heterosexuals would be upset about unfaithful partners?

I am not suggesting that all LGBT is promiscuous, but clearly when they asked to be viewed normally, then I would really take a step back, not as a Christian but as any other human being, and attempt to consider all aspects of homosexuality with a heterosexual mindset. Do LGBT not agree that promiscuity is a real issue, be it for homosexuals or heterosexuals?

Do we all not put our feet down on promiscuity, which may destroy any relationship – both heterosexual and homosexual? Does society in general not frown upon people who goes around hitting on partners for nothing more than to satisfy their lust? Clearly the image of swingers going around looking for partners, is repulsive to many. When homosexual swingers hit on even straight people, does that not go forth to present homosexuality in a bad image? What fault is there for Christianity to point that out? Or is the LGBT actually suggesting to us all that promiscuity is alright, or in fact, exclusively theirs?

Next, the matter of FOTF. Again FOTF is shown to be a Christian organisation with programs against LGBT – as such, it is anti-LGBT. Yet again the specter of Christian homophobia is raised to vilify Christians. But look deeper at the matter, if it has been a organisation called FOPH (Focus of Personal Health), with programs that encourages people to focus on health and give up on smoking and fatty food, is FOPH thus anti-smokers and anti-obese people? Certainly, I find less outrage in smokers being treated worse than common criminals – outcast from pubs and public buildings, and cornered to a limited space to smoke even in open-air eateries.Why is that? If we are talking about inclusiveness, clearly we have left the smokers out.

Finally, the AWARE matter. It annoys me to no end that the Straits Stooge Times has dug up much significant details not just about the faith of the new ExCo, but has invaded their privacy by listing who their spouse are, their occupation and the number of children they have. No one considered that an invasion of privacy and even applaud the Stooge Times for it, over nothing more than the allegation that the new ExCo will be less inclusive. (Surprisingly, other than the fact she has been an ex-president of AWARE, there is very little said about a particular Dana Lim, whose name has appeared in the very first article, and now in a video exhorting people to turn up for the AWARE EOGM on May 2nd.)

But what is the issue here other that the fact that the ExCo has been Christians? The matter become a problem because Christians have repeatedly allowed the brown shirts of the LGBT to continue labeling and portraying them as anti-LGBT by default. The Stooge Times clearly did them a ‘great favor’ by digging up past letters on the Section 377 debate. To put it in an analogy, it is as if a cheerful butcher at the market has been portrayed as one taking joy in chopping parts dead animals, will in effect definitely be a sadistic murderer.

Has the public forgotten that the new ExCo hasn’t even done anything, other than their ‘hostile take over’? I would have thought that even common criminals are assumed innocent until proven guilty. But yet the new ExCo has been judged as being an exclusive club, being non-inclusive and would be thus not helpful to non-Christian and not just lesbian women too.

Woo… just how the goal posts have shifted from the earlier Christianity vs LGBT now to Christianity vs the world! I am amazed at how the tactics get dirtier day by day and sadly no one has noticed this. Then someone like Gwee Li Sui scores an own goal. Reminds me of a scene in Hamburger Hill, where the Marines were in the midst of taking the position and there comes a UH-1H gunship which machine-gunners gunned down the Marines. Thank you very much, Gwee.

There are of course some Christians (and Christians on both sides of the debate), who would not agree with some of my views here. But it is my considered opinion that it is high time Christianity avoid getting itself into such set pieces, and when they do get into it, evolves new tactics to get themselves out of the situation and come out gunning, scoring some goals of their own.

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Call it Grace: Confronting Idols
Where Bears Roam Free: Sectarian Christians replaced by Sectarian Gays – So what’s the difference?

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