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I must go and cut my hair

I must go and cut my hair

I must go and cut my hair this friday because it is irritating me to the core.

GRRRRR..

Anyway if you have been following the news regarding S377A, you might have hear of this name: Thio Li Ann. I checked her out at this webbie: http://www.parliament.gov.sg/AboutUs/Org-MP-CV-NMP-ThioLA.htm
and I must add she got a very impressive resume. Oxford,Harvard, Cambridge..she's been there. done that and she also got herself in a storm of controversy regarding her speech in the parliament.

Her speech is quite long and full of law jargons so you might no totally understand because it's way to dense for non-academias like us but she did raise some heckles in her speech such as:

Then there was her wit, deployed so civilly. Anal sex is like ’shoving
a straw up your nose to drink’, she said. A colleague of mine googled
that and discovered it was an often cited image in American anti-gay
pamphlets. To top that, she said 377A must be kept on the books so we
can say ‘Majullah Singapura’, not ‘Mundur Singapura’. If you did not
get the joke, here is a clue: Mundur means ‘backward’ in Malay, and
‘backward’ here alludes to that ’straw’ and another orifice. See? Now,
isn’t that funny?

I got it from this webbie: http://pleinelune.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/i-heart-janadas-devan/
so if up to this point you are really interested about the hoo-ha of 377A do visit it because it is really quite interesting to see witty people sparring head on with their wits and in this case, the words are really mightier than the sword!

btw, our own very ntu student from mass comm Mr. Alfian Saat was also involved as well.
Go to www.yawningbread.org and clicked on the link:

The limits of civility - who was the mystery guy who wanted to desecrate Thio Li-Ann's grave?

for more details. Again, it is another piece of wits vs wits article. very interesting I must say.

Singapore is full of witty people~

posted by Immortali @ 12:23 am