Surreal In This Lying World

I just finished chatting with my favorite uncle who has made Singapore his home for the past 20+ years. News from that side of the world surely gets crazier through the years. Here goes:

Two men in Singapore were jailed for posting racist slurs in their online blogs. Meanwhile, three college girls were suspended from school from writing supposedly defamatory remarks about their teachers (no names were mentioned) in their blogs as well. - That’s not fair. How about that PSC scholar who got off with a just a warning? And wow, it’s a little scary, that you could get into a ton of trouble if you ever wanted to bitch online about people who cheese you off. I sometimes walk on a very thin line on that one I must say. While I can see how the Sedition Act makes sense for such a multi-cultural society like Singapore that’s trying to hold off a repeat of that horrible racial riots of the not so recent past, I think calling on the Sedition Act for remarks made on personal blogs might be a tad over dramatic. If I might so propose (ever so meekly) that the Singapore government revise its laws a little to keep up with the changing technology… Punish them yes, but jail?? There’s a distinction between trying to correct people of their misguided notions, and pushing them underground. Imposing such harsh terms might not quell possibilities of riots, but hell, might even fan it. But what do I know? The government is so much wiser and more learned.

The Singapore government’s most recent public stance against homosexuals:

The Singapore Government is not homophobic, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday, rejecting suggestions that it had an irrational fear of homosexuals. Thus it must remain sensitive to segments of the population which are uncomfortable with gays, he said during a question and answer session with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association.

I mean, how about the gays then, why can’t the government be sensitive to them? WTH. Actually, it’s mildly insulting that they came up with such a transparent excuse. I’d rather they just say: ‘yah, we are homophobic, well, not really, but maybe a little.’ Join the rest of the crowd - there are enough homophobic states in the US and other parts of the world to not make them look ultra conservative…

I remember this poor guy who was jailed 2 years because he had his girlfriend perform a blow job on him. The CJ acknowledged that the law was a little outdated (dating from I forget when, but I daresay the Victorian period), and hence lowered his sentence to a year? According to the government (please the hell don’t quote me on that, I’m just drawing on my memory of the incident), any sex that does not involve vagina intercourse is considered unnatural sex and should be correspondingly curtailed. This law supposedly has religious roots to it - but reading it, two things come to mind: Firstly, if you ever go to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, go look at the famous fresco Michelangelo did of Adam and Eve by the apple tree. Go, go crane your neck and take a long, hard look, cos you will see Eve kneeling conveniently by Adam’s crotch. Coincidence? I checked that with my Art History professor, and he reckons not. ‘Michelangelo is a very organized man, he does not do things by accident.’

Secondly, that law is hilarious, especially considering that the Singapore government has been trying desperately to get us to procreate. Supposedly, any semen that does not go towards making a baby is wasteful and should be a crime. Therefore, conserve your seeds guys, and serve your country! But maybe the government - and the CJ - has never heard of foreplay… - ok ok, hey lawyers-to-be, can you help me vet my entry, and see that I won’t get sued?

Forget about the Singapore news for now - I can only take so much risk at once - but here’s another bit of retarded news a friend sent me: Wyrd Sisters Try to Block New Potter Film. It’s totally retarded; I wonder about the lawyer who did it.

A Winnipeg-based folk group called The Wyrd Sisters is asking an Ontario court to block the distribution of the upcoming Harry Potter movie across Canada.
The group is also suing Warner Brothers and three famous British musicians over a scene in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that allegedly depicts a band called The Wyrd Sisters playing on a stage.

“The name of the band is threatened by Warner Brothers actions,” Kimberly Townley-Smith, lawyer for The Wyrd Sisters, said Monday.

“If everybody knows Harry Potter’s Wyrd Sisters, we can’t go out and find new fans because people are going to see us and go, well who are you? Some people are going to think we’re ripping them off.”

… I have no other comments other than it’s totally retarded. But speaking of Harry Potter, I have a whole freaking month to endure before the movie comes out!!! MAN!

Speaking of movies, I went to watch 40 Year Old Virgin yesterday. And hahaha, I was the ONLY patron in the entire theatre. The movie was so hilarious though… i didn’t mind laughing out so hard.

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