The past week has been pretty uneventful except maybe for a corny attempt at joking by one blogger which has caused some unhappiness and distress to two other bloggers. Other than that, the furor over a particular blog aggregator has basically died down just like the Chinese Civil War – no truce, no peace, no nothing. Basically, there is really nothing more to talk about and no more flesh left on a dead horse to flog until yet another is killed to provide more entertainment, much like the Romans have their usual gladiator battles in the Colosseum to entertain themselves.

However, before the week was out a very small matter occurred which requires me to make certain things clear. It is generally agreed among my friends and associates that facts are distorted, then the matter should be set straight, unless the person is a moral coward, imagines he is the Almighty God, or the allegations are so true he can’t refute them.

So firstly, there has been rumors that I have a ‘plan’ to attack the blog aggregator by ‘getting people out of the community’ . This is one of the most ludicrous remark I have heard in a long time. The reason being it has been my stand that there is no community because a community means interaction between its constituents and participation. If there are 3000 people in a place but more than 96% of the constituents do not even actively interact or participate in its activities, then all these talk about a community is nothing but a figment of imagination of a delusional mind. That’s not mentioning – get the people out to where? Just who the hell will come out to… nowhere?

Next, I have on several occasions chat with certain acquaintances and friends about the strength and weakness of the blog aggregator in question, and even spoke about possible ‘vector of attacks’ to exploit certain weaknesses, but no concrete plans have ever come about from these chats. I have never insisted anyone act on them, nor do I harbour any delusions that anyone would act upon them. Above which, the participants in these chats are professionals and matured adults and it makes me wonder if it is because the person making the allegations is weak-minded on her own to even imagine that there are people out there who would be as easily swayed.

Anyway, this isn’t going to be yet another post about some blog aggregator’s so-called ‘community’ or any particular person (those have been done on 21st July and 19th July respectively, and I have already closed the chapter even when someone was still sore and talking about it on Plurk last Friday as if I am still at it). This is more about my personal experience of the true meaning of a particular individual’s vaunted ‘neutrality’ , which translates as – I am neutral as long as you accept what I suggest you should do about this matter. Or else…

And this person has made the above allegations without a single nuance of evidence, much like how dk99 was slandered once over coffee after dinner at a coffee shop near Kallang MRT. A testimony that birds of the same feather do indeed flock together.

Let me just say, I can respect a person giving suggestions to resolve the matter in question. I can even accept having a different decision – just ask paced what my stand is over her choice with regard to the furor. However, don’t expect me to accept any suggestions which have no merits at all. Much less after I have pointed that out again and again. In fact, don’t even suggest that anyone has ‘failed to accept criticism’ when you yourself failed to accept the criticisms to your own suggestions. In short, pardon me for feeling rather ironical when you make that accusation.

To end, let me say it is one thing to be ungracious, but another to be despicable. There is nothing wrong with who you want to consort with, but it is morally wrong to profess neutrality on one hand and then take sides in another setting. The ethnic Hokkien have a very specific term for your kind – 狗母蛇 (gau bu zua aka Bitch Snake), and it is definitely quite apt as far as you are concerned.

Now that I have gotten this off my chest, and just in case anyone thinks my blood pressure has shot through the roof, let me share with everybody a hilarious video that Endoh has spent quite a bit of time on.