It must have really disappointed a lot of “Christianophobes” that Isabelle Loh isn’t Christian and the Christian community can now breathe a sigh of relief. It certainly won’t do the community much good if another over zealous believer bring the faith into the limelight again. After that round of attacks in May 2009, I am pretty sure Christians wouldn’t want anymore of such attention.

It was also good that we now get a better picture about that remark on “devil worship”. Otherwise, the following would have become fact when nary any attempt at verification was made by the person who reported it in his blog post: “that someone in the senior management said, in response to why the event was canceled, ‘We should not worship the devil. We can be creative and turn the bad for good.”

A lot of readers has re-posted and share the blog post carrying that comment and I shudder to imagine how many who read it were misled into believing all of the hearsay as the facts. Thank you for scoring one for the government, dude. Thank you very much for giving the government yet another example to say just how non-credible blog posts are. Some of us here struggling with about 150 to 200 hits a day still do like people to read what we write and consider us a credible source (even though we can only dream of being respectable or a celebrity like you), you know?

Anyway, when I first read this news, I didn’t even bother to read more on it. My initial stand was that I don’t give a shit about Halloween since it is not a Singaporean holiday or festival or whatever not you want to call it. I am surprised that we actually celebrated this though I probably also wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow had this been a lunar seventh month (“ghost month”) related event. It was until a colleague told me during lunch today that there are students involved, and their participation in this event would be graded that I took notice and catch up with this particular piece of news.

I really don’t buy Isabelle Loh’s story that she didn’t know the students involved would be graded for this event. Even though I read that the cancellation of this project wouldn’t have affected their grades, this is a utter public relations fiasco. The only consolation was that an MP of Tampines GRC had allowed the event to take place there so the students can complete their work.

Regardless of my personal preference, a thousand over tickets were sold meant some people are actually looking forward to the event. That’s not mentioning the million over dollars that was already spent. Frankly, if Isabelle Loh has too much money (and good will) to throw away, she should at just throw the money this way. I could have used that million to make a lot of people happy.

Just what the hell was she thinking? Whatever her reasons were for terminating the event, can’t she wait until it is over and announce that it wouldn’t be done anymore in the future? At least a lot less people would be upset about it. This clearly looked like an abuse of power, if not an attempt to show off “who is boss”. On top of which, her attempt to justify her decision by quoting the new Elected President was just plain lame. It was all the more annoying when some had cited this as yet another “Christian Conspiracy” because the President is a Christian. Her subsequent apology for this was of no comfort to me even though I had chuckled briefly at the thought of this as a classic example of an attempt at currying favor gone bad.

I don’t even want to waste more time talk about her idea for a replacement event. From now on the name Isabelle Loh will be synonymous with FAIL, along with the likes of Saw Phaik Hwa and Lim Hwee Hua. Just where the hell did they dig up all these “jewels”

*sigh*