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Daily ChioBu: Fiona Xie
Posted by The Singapore Daily on 24 September 2007
Fiona Xie 谢宛谕 made her acting debut as a nurse in the local series Growing Up. Her performance led to her being cast in her breakthrough role as a sexy fairy in My Genie. In 2005, Fiona was voted “FHM Singapore’s Sexiest Woman of the Year”, despite never appearing in any of FHM’s issues. Love or loathe her, Fiona is considered one of the bigger stars in Singapore’s celeb-ville.
More pictures of Fiona after the break
The Singapore Daily has moved to a new address http://singaporedaily.net.
All chiobu’s have gone over as well. Visit us at our new home!
This post’s new location: http://singaporedaily.net/2007/09/24/daily-chiobu-fiona-xie/
24 September 2007 at 11:19 am
This is just to remind some boys out there who may not be all too level headed and grounded, when it comes to going global, that’s OK providing you go local on the really important things in life.
Please write it, laminated it and carry it in your wallet!
I am glad Singapore Daily is finally featuring some local talent and hopefully may even show case a few BP reader hotties!
Home Grown is the best as Fiona shows so clearly! Go Girl!
25 September 2007 at 3:25 am
Perhaps Dawn Yeoh? “Yao Yu Shan”.
;)
25 September 2007 at 3:27 am
With regards to my previous comment:
Yao Yi Shan, not Yu shan.
25 September 2007 at 10:56 am
Ya more local chiobus please. But I think other than the xiaomeimei’s in Friendsters etc. Hard to find magazine scans in sg. We don’t have a scan culture here. Where are our scanmasters!
25 September 2007 at 10:43 pm
“Yes, very fetching. I want to share this with all of you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KM_ThOqVmM&mode=related&search=
will allow me? Thank you. I am sorry, I do not have time to read all your e-mails.
The line will terminated forthwith, don’t be angry we still have here….we have it.
Darkness 24-09-07″
Observer.
26 September 2007 at 10:31 am
Like that one meh?
26 September 2007 at 10:51 am
Meaning?
1 October 2007 at 12:22 pm
To get a strategic analysis on what’s really happening in Myanmar.
Just Google: 9923104653
1 October 2007 at 12:23 pm
Darkness told me he likes Fiona Xie, so he really likes this thread. He doesn’t care much abt the rest.
1 October 2007 at 9:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8emVM2xE8&mode=related&search=
7 October 2007 at 1:14 am
I tell you what, let’s just bring it to the top again. Besides, there is more of us than them, what u say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zqXz4fO0hI
7 October 2007 at 11:23 am
Hi all, just to inform all the regular brotherhood readers the Fast Search is not working. I typed in the latest google serialization and I got 20 essays abt Burma instead.
In future I will be posting the link for the BP articles here DIRECTLY, to access just click the link. The latest BP article is entitled: In the name of my father? The Hubris of Money and Faith By Bambi Bad Boy.
Read at post (90) in the Intelligent Singaporean
http://intelligentsingaporean.wordpress.com/wee-shu-min/#comment-29075
kkp
7 October 2007 at 8:55 pm
See the latest article on BP @ 101.
http://intelligentsingaporean.wordpress.com/wee-shu-min/#comment-29096
Title of Article:
One World, One Understanding, One Heart, But Please Keep Your Problems To Yourself?
Excerpt:
“As the recent Burmese street protest showed so clearly, most people all round the world were quick to embrace the plight of the downtrodden and this throws out the question, whether it’s even reasonable NOT to expect one common reaction?
That’s to say, is it reasonable to even expect people to remain emotionally detached from what’s happening in the world, if they are exposed to the same facts as say someone living in London?”
KKP
8 October 2007 at 10:44 pm
This darkness can be very persistent like this chappy in the funny hat, do be careful ladies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE-78dC6VPk&mode=related&search=
I wouldn’t put it past him for one moment.
Perhaps, we shouldn’t listen to him or give him the impression that we are - it’s best to ignore him.
9 October 2007 at 1:33 am
To darkness,
“This must rank as one of dumbest comments I have ever read bfr in my life and I dont even need to wonder, why you saw fit to post it?”
Go read Seah Chiang Nee’s article again. I’ve been in NZ for 5 yrs. Here the citizens/ PRs get priority for jobs. Employers have to provide evidence that a local cannot fill a position before they are allowed to employ people on work permits. Protectionism? perhaps, but I think it’s fair to the citizens of this country. My British colleague has to go thru the pain each yr getting her work permit renewed. And the employer need to prove that they advertised locally and no local talent is available. Tough for her but even she accepts that she is second class to NZ citizens and PRs (which is not as freely given as SG). If she doesn’t like it , she can head back to the UK. But in SG , even the food courts hire sweet young things from China and the Ah Em and Ah Pek can’t get a job clearing / washing dishes. Why else do they have to collect soft drink cans, cardboard and tissue packets ? So no, I don’t think the question of Who is a Singaporean is dumb at all…. especially if our sons have to go back to serve NS when they have no recollection of Majullah Singapura but sing God Defend New Zealand each day in school. And the sons of first generation PRs in SG can renounce their PR when it’s time to do NS. What a joke being Singaporean has become!
Posted by: stayer staying elsewhere | Oct 8, 2007 5:59:38 PM
SSE,
If you want to debate comparatively, then I will say you can find all the facts to suit the case and you may even be ‘right.’ What is your goal here? Do you really wish to see the world for what it is or what you believe it to be? If it is the latter, then you can win this argument, but if it’s the former then you have to first appreciate this is not a problem that is unique to Singapore, it has been around since the beginning of time and was even mooted by the Romans when they decided to induct foreigners into their elite Praetorian guard. Since then man has made a brisk business of importing talent to fill their ranks, but the issue here is although some are definitely mercenaries, others aren’t and you have to ask yourself why. Of course, it convenient for us to believe they are mercenaries because of some character flaw, but what makes you believe if a man can migrate physically, he can also do the same with regard to his values and much of his beliefs to even assume ALL the character and shape of his adopted country?
Much of that will depend on how they are treated by the citizenry of the host country. Do not think life is easy for them, they have voted to uproot from all that is familiar to make a life here, that to me is a big life step – money may well feature in this equation, but that is like saying everyone who wears a hat has a bad hair day. They could be running away from a screwy political environment or just think that there is no future in their own country. All I know is, if you treat any man with respect, dignity and equanimity, then you stand a very good chance that he may even call this place home, but if we are unprepared to even extend this man the benefit of the doubt, which even you or I will undoubtedly ask and even demand of a host country if we are either studying or working in a foreign land– then your dream might just come true and we will certainly have this country all to ourselves but don’t be surprise, if it’s a place that even we will dream no end of migrating far away from – only because it will not be much of a home.
It is very simple, the author is a fool and you have to ask yourself, you is the bigger fool, the fool who leads or the fool who follows the fool.
Thxs
Posted by: Darkness | Oct 8, 2007 9:50:05 PM (subsequent deleted from thread at 10:55:38 PM @ location http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2007/10/who-is-a-singap.html#comments re-captured and constituted at cache by KOHO / The Brotherhood Press and retrieved from (deleted) @ 11.01.51 PM @ (deleted).
[posted by Observer courtesy of KOHO, Thanks]
9 October 2007 at 1:37 am
Now we ALL know why he roughly respects Mr Brown as much as Bernard Leong & Co.
9 October 2007 at 2:29 am
I think the sitemaster here has done a good job of aggregating the various reads at Daily SG: 8 Oct 2007.
Ladies, we should at least support him. As he is doing a brilliant job!
9 October 2007 at 10:37 am
I don’t mind Obby, if the man in the funny hat wants to disturb me. Really I don’t really mind at all. Infact, I may even look forward to it.
I don’t like to ignore him, that’s cruel.
9 October 2007 at 10:40 am
As for unsecure people they will always be unsecure for whatever reasons. Personally, I don’t see what is offending abt what he posted. Really, I don’t??????? People like Bernard Leong etc and Mr Brown just have an axe to grind with Bambi Darkness boy for no reason. Deep inside, they just don’t like him because they know, he can run big and small circles around them and it doesnt even take much effort.
9 October 2007 at 2:54 pm
Obby,
Can you please tell us when the man with the “funny hat” will be next avalibale to “disturb” us? As I understand it, he seems to like disturbing only the likes of Scimitar, Anongal and the Lady.
I shouldn’t worry too much abt Mr Brown, there was a time when he was good, but since he has taken to doing the same things to others that he accuses the govt of doing to him. One really needs to ask, how credible is he these days?
It seems the only way to be good in his books is to be as stupid and shallow as him, then why bother even posting those sort of emotive post? Stick to cartoons then….wait, oh yes, how can I forget, Bambi Boy is after all just troll. OK thank you…erm next please.
Besides there is always more of us than them.
9 October 2007 at 11:51 pm
Here you go Ladies. Another article by the Brotherhood Press @ 107
Entitled:
The Incredible Dumbness of Being – ‘An Intellectual, An Intellectual, My Kingdom for an Intellectual?’
Synopsis:
“Usually this surreal footage of finding myself smack in the incredible dumbness of being occurs whenever I chance across something so incredulous as to stop me dead on my tracks, like: the reasons why gays aren’t allowed pedal their tricycles in a public park. OK someone MAY stop someone, a heated debate MAY ensue – since when is that a logical way to premise anything, let alone an executive decision? Am I missing a step here….a brain perhaps…do I need to brush up on my ESP skills? Because I am really missing huge chunks of the narrative here!…………
Since when did probabilities assume the basis for certainty even flying in the face of possibilities?
It’s enough to make me wonder whether we are already living in some sort of dystopian nightmare where we have ceased completely to examine the deeper meaning of life”
Click here to read the full article:
http://intelligentsingaporean.wordpress.com/wee-shu-min/#comment-29159
KKP posted using Obby account at Genuie.
KKP
10 October 2007 at 12:20 am
You know, I cannot tell you what you can or cannot do, you know this is not my style, but if you do this, then you will make life difficult for us - do you understand?
We have an agreement.
This is where, this article should be read:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/the-incredible-dumbness-of-being-being-dumb-in-an-intelligent-age/
[I can break into any line, I want too, including this]
10 October 2007 at 10:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2okbJ7QVs
I believe this was during a cycling tour in S.America with some of their Foreign Legion / 00.24 & 00.50 is darkness / 00.56 is Harphoon Boy / Scholarboy and the rest are somewhere there as well.
Enjoy
11 October 2007 at 12:43 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WViHdC0Y7E
He says,
“This is dedicated to ALL of you, both new and old readers. May I wish you happy reading”
Darkness 10-10-07
11 October 2007 at 12:02 pm
October 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Title of Article:
The Really Strange Reasons Why You Write the Thing You Do?
Extract:
“Is that the reason why you write? You haven’t really thought about it, have you? Could it be the ‘act of writing’ is even hardly a matter of choice? Though you seem to do a good job of dressing it up as one – you or shall I say ‘we’, have to write in the way cripples gather beneath the shade of a tree to convince ourselves wheelchairs are scientifically far more efficient than limbs – it doesn’t matter if the lies we tell ourselves turn to mud the very moment when we are confronted with a flight of stairs – we need to write to convince ourselves our existence has the hope of transcending the omnipresent cultural susceptibility to the charms of materialism – you don’t want to be labeled a bimbo, mall rat or lounge lizard and I don’t want to be called a himbo, all muscle and no brain, – above all, we write because we still want to believe we are in control of our destiny. In an age when we are regularly being told character isn’t as important as genetic make up, your helix decides who you will be, a rocket scientist, janitor, hood, taxi driver, circus performer or simply a man who writes the things he does?
Just admit it, let go!”
Click here to read More!
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/the-really-strange-reasons-why-you-write-the-things-you-do/
KKP
11 October 2007 at 9:51 pm
It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s just magic.
The moment when it all comes beautifully together, the feeling is indescribable.
You just know it, when it happens, the sound and silence followed by the gradual lift and all you can really do is surrender only to take flight – one is at peace with oneself and everything else simply doesn’t exist, except the flight of this single mystical bird – I am garuda.
I aspire to play like this.
I do….one day….hopefully it will certainly come together like this.
Meanwhile, I remain yours always….
Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xgPLrvcmOs&mode=related&search=
Sorry for the line break Obby.
12 October 2007 at 4:07 pm
Hi,
Very smooth. Yes, I agree ladies, very smooth indeed. This darkness character cannot be trusted, not even for one minute. One should really be more careful with this type of character. In my experience, they can grow on one just as easily, so its best, if we all remain wary and keep our distance.
Keep safe.
12 October 2007 at 4:08 pm
Frankly, I prefer this way of navigating, just post it in Fiona’s and that really cuts down on the leg work and searching etc.
Very Good Effort Singapore Daily!
13 October 2007 at 1:39 pm
Title of New Article:
“Why it will be tough for a Singaporean to beat the Jews at the Nobel Prize?”
P.S: I believe there is a similar article that is published in today’s ST.
Brief Extract:
“Now you may think this is some flippant weekend muse, but think again. I am asking a perfectly valid question. After all, $millions are spent every year on sustaining the scholarship programs – many of these scholars after finishing their academic tenure are integrated into the various institutions with the hope of ensuring peak individual and organizational performance. So, the scholarship programs even affect those who aren’t directly scholars. How do these scholars really measure up when compared to the Jews?
Do the Jews have a comparative advantage because they’re simply more of them and less of us? After all, we all know our paltry population is hardly the stuff of a critical mass. There’s only 3 point so-so million of us, hardly even a drop in the sea of humans, so hey what do you expect? It’s a numbers game you don’t really expect us to win. Right? Nope, in fact, I did some research and came up with some startling figures which suggest, the cerebral fitness of Jews has absolutely nothing to do with numerical superiority. Consider this: out of 25.2% of Nobel Prize Winners in the last 25 years have been Jews, even though they comprise less then a quarter of one percent of the world’s population!”
To read more click here!
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/why-it-will-be-tough-for-a-singaporean-to-beat-the-jews-at-the-nobel-prize/
KKP
14 October 2007 at 10:57 pm
Title of New Article:
Strategic Analysis: The Re-Unification of Singapore and Malaysia?
Brief Extract:
“…..throws out the question: Has MM Lee gone senile? Does he really believe for a moment it’s even conceivable for Singapore to re-join Malaysia under favorable terms? What is he really trying to accomplish? Was he obliquely rebuking the Malaysians for being bovine to change? Or, was he voicing out a commonly-held belief that is often voiced by the disenchanted and marginalized minorities in Malaysia? We really have no idea. Having said that, I am reminded politics is a bit like chess. There’s always a cerebral dimension nothing is ever what it seems at face value….”
To read more click here:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/strategic-analysis-the-re-unification-of-singapore-and-malaysia/
KKP
15 October 2007 at 8:12 am
Title of Article:
Perils of Living in the Age of Fast – High-Tech vs Low-Tech.
Brief Extract:
“One of the most enduring myths about developing anything successfully is simply this: Pursuing a Space Age high-tech strategy regularly pays out more. That’s just plain bullshit. No one is denying there are certainly firms pursuing a high end strategy and some of them even manage to turn in a respectable return on their investments. But what’s rarely mentioned is simply this: Many of those who were financially and ideologically invested in the hi-tech sector are reluctantly reaching the conclusion that much of what they believed about the New Economy and financial markets was just lousy business sense.
Taking the high road is fraught with considerable risk and all too often one is more likely to end up recounting the onion story - the more one peels, the more one cries only to end up with nothing!”
To read more click here:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/perils-of-living-in-the-age-of-fast-%e2%80%93-high-tech-vs-low-tech/
KKP
16 October 2007 at 11:43 pm
October 16th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Title of New Article:
Why It’s Time To Move Beyond Mr Brown.
Brief Excerpt:
“Do you really want to know why Mr Brown is regularly feted and even promoted as the name and face of the blogosphere?
As much as I would like to say Mr Brown represents what’s commonly produced in blogosphere, you know what? He doesn’t and it’s really as simple as that. So what accounts for this entrenched media characterization? After all, there’s certainly no lack of competent bloggers who often do a decent job of Swiss cheesing some prickly topics. Just to name a few: Yawning Bread, Elia Diodati, Aaron Ng and probably a host of others like the Singapore Daily and even the Online Citizen, etc. So why aren’t they given the same air time as Mr Brown?
Does the print media harbor a hidden agenda in it’s insistence that blogosphere = Mr Brown?”
Click here to read the complete version of this article:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/why-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-move-beyond-mr-brown/
KKP
17 October 2007 at 1:12 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82yxHZlWSI
How long are you ladies going to hate me for?
You know, I have been so patient, perhaps it’s time for me to be rough?
You mustn’t get between a dog and his bone didn’t your mama tell you that?
17 October 2007 at 10:55 am
Only a pariah dog like you Bambi would stand up Sis Scimitar. Why didn’t you turn up on Bedok jetty as you promised!
17 October 2007 at 4:40 pm
No point trying to talk to that idiot Bambi Darkness Bad boy, I heard, he never even showed up and keep poor Scimitar waiting for a good hour. I mean what kinda of idiot makes a date and stands a girl up? He is very lucky all of us dont pass the hat around to hire a hit man to deal with him! Idiot! Hate you more that you can imagine!
17 October 2007 at 7:22 pm
I am very sure there is a perfectly good reason why he didn’t turn up with his meet with Sis Scimitar.
You can’t really blame him can you, she is after all so garang one.
17 October 2007 at 8:21 pm
Dear angry ladies,
Recently, I wrote another internet book, it’s entitled ‘the tree that binds,’ one that was inspired after watching a Korean series during a trip to Japan – like all my books its written during the filler moments when usually I spend waiting in airports and train stations – a story revolving around the quiet thoughts of two people in love in the shortest of breathes, touched ever so lightly like birds nesting in each other’s warmth, hardly a care for tomorrow.
You will know them by their laughter but to each other they speak mostly through their silence and tears of hope, if they find themselves apart, they may dream perhaps of yellow fitches and sweet repose on a summers evening.
If they dream of sitting undisturbed in each other’s presence, its only because that’s all the have, today and let what come tomorrow…
Reminding them having too little can be denial. Having too much may mean not even savoring life – it is not true to say, I did not go to Bedok jetty, I did.
But as I look on at her from a distance, I found myself reduced to a man standing on a ship looking out at the frothy wake to see where it shall take me – and I realized only too well, it was a journey that I could never have complete successfully.
I am very sorry, but it is best if she forgets me and find a better man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_70cP77XGU&mode=related&search=
Yours ever more / darkness 2007
18 October 2007 at 5:05 pm
There you go:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/when-8-out-of-10-just-means-8-out-of-10/
19 October 2007 at 11:09 am
October 19th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Title of New Article:
Hey! We Should Send A Singaporean To Space As Well?
Brief Extract:
“Space, since time immemorial has always held a hold on me and even today when I switch on the TV to watch a launch of a space craft, it just sends the hair at the back of my neck standing. To those who question whether it even ‘makes sense’ for a third world country like Malaysia to send a man to space. I’ve have to admit finding the ‘why’s’ would be a stretch. After all, space, like caviar, champagne and 40 foot yachts, belong to the stuff one associates with Byzantine sized excesses. For one, almost everything about fails to commensurate with value – it’s a prohibitively expensive enterprise no matter how one chooses to cut it. Even space tourism runs into the millions.
I really don’t know how one is able to argue against the proposition the money would be better spent on education or to help alleviate poverty? I don’t even believe it can be done! Nonetheless, I am inclined to believe that sort of logic only holds true, if you believe everything can be reduced into monetary nuts and bolts ‘sense’.
“Sense,” I have to insist is really in the eye of the beholder. For example: How much is one prepared to put a price on dreams? Even the ones which don’t take off?”
To read the complete article click here:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/hey-we-should-send-a-singaporean-to-space-as-well/
Brought to you by Kokopop dedicated BP reader.
19 October 2007 at 8:43 pm
fantastic BP keep it up!
22 October 2007 at 1:33 pm
Title of Article:
377A - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Brief Extract:
“Well, as much as I like to believe the answer to whether 377 should stand or be repealed hinges on placing ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ on the scales of life, nothing can be further from the truth.
In reality, 377 represents the starkest reflection of what it means for a society to come to terms with one reality, “CHANGE”. Any concept that proposes ‘CHANGE’ requires us all to perform one activity - it challenges our pre-existing notions of what really constitutes our known world. To be more specific – it questions the whole idea of ‘Privacy’ against the backdrop of the ‘Public’ sphere. You can even say, it proposes to define this domain – by juxtaposing the question:
What should the ‘Public’ sphere include or exclude?”
To Read The full Article click HERE:
http://whatotherssay.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/377a-%e2%80%93-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being/
23 October 2007 at 11:26 am
Dear Sir,
May I ask Mr Darkness what has happened to WOS?
I woke up and I am not able to access the site. It has completely disappeared. Was the brotherhood attacked or hacked into?
Instead when I try to enter the WOS site, I am told to register but even after complying, I am still not able to get nearer to the daily brotherhood press reads.
I do hope someone will follow up as all this is terribly confusing.
Your Sincerely.
23 October 2007 at 2:02 pm
I cannot believe this! He just told Sitis to fuck off bc he supported Scimitar!
Where is the new Bro site pleeeze - does anyone know? The Com is not working - there is no working EP or ES line - I cannot even log into my thread!
What’s happened?
23 October 2007 at 8:39 pm
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/377a-%e2%80%93-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being/
They are back in business!
24 October 2007 at 12:00 am
NEW ARTICLE / BP Says:
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Click here to read further:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/when-newspapers-decide-not-to-be-newspapers-%e2%80%93-a-lesson-in-economic-reality/
KKP
24 October 2007 at 1:52 pm
I cannot believe this! All I did was log off for a few days!
24 October 2007 at 3:55 pm
Does anyone have any idea who this girl is?
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/when-newspapers-decide-not-to-be-newspapers-%e2%80%93-a-lesson-in-economic-reality/
She definitely has to be a bp reader. Otherwise why should they trust her? Is she a friend of Lady or Scimitar?
There is a nice write up on 377A, I think, they hammered it pretty well.
25 October 2007 at 10:14 am
I am sorry but is it just me. Or do I sense something else around here? Fiona Xie’s post has been around for a very long time.Rite? So why does it still keep regularly getting the top hits!
25 October 2007 at 11:50 am
So what are telling us all Monty, that not even the Online Citizen can shake off the Brotherhood Press? Because it seems to look like it! I don’t want to come across as rude, but I think it’s really funny when this thread keeps going up to No.1 all the time! When, we all know it’s supposed to be long dead like the IS. I notice everything, they come across, just doesn’t die for some really strange and funny reason. Maybe they just have a undetectable way to move readers without the wb tracking them.
They are here, for the new and old bro - press readers, they have moved again FYI:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/when-newspapers-decide-not-to-be-newspapers-%e2%80%93-a-lesson-in-economic-reality/
“Lim, Jenny (DECS)”
25 October 2007 at 1:17 pm
Many thanks Jen, will follow up to the new site location. Best to save in favs or bookmark it just in case. Hor?
25 October 2007 at 7:12 pm
Title of Article:
A New Catch Phrase For The Sign of Our Times -377A
Brief Extract:
“It’s a truism that words migrate because the concepts they connote have also migrated. When the Romans paid their soldiers with salt, not only did they birth the word ‘salary’ but also spawned a whole genre of accretions, such as “the salt of the earth” and “worth his salt.” In both of these instances the words filled a vacuum and managed to sound off successfully against the rhetoric of the age. And just as “Inshallah” found itself transplanted from the battlefields of Iraq to even diplomatic speech these days in Capitol Hill. One wonders will 377A do the same for us? Will it fill a need and even take root in our ‘collective consciousness.’ As a word that describes the hubris between gays and straights, modernity and tradition, rights and rights denied, minority and majority and a host of other competing dichotomies?”
To read the full article click HERE:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/
KKP
26 October 2007 at 4:43 pm
The Brotherhood Press is really amazing / this write up is like a surgical knife / may I ask the authors whether it is copyrighted. As I wish to print out a copy for follow up. I am sorry, I would have preferred to broach the subject in “just stuff” with Miss Dotty, but I seem to have problems posting from my office.
Many Thanks and once again thank you for a fab write up.
27 October 2007 at 9:36 pm
Move house again ah darkness?
28 October 2007 at 1:20 pm
Hi,
Great site Missy Dotty / Just want to ask a very short question / Why has the BP allowed gals into their ranks?????????
Seems really strange to all us readers / They fought so hard to keep it all boyz for so very long / suddenly 180 degree turn??????
Many Thanks and Great Job!
28 October 2007 at 2:48 pm
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/
Does anyone have any idea what sort of traffic “Just Stuff” is having. It must be having at least 4 to 5 times wat WOS used to have, bc, I suddenly don’t see any brotherhood readers hanging around here or in IS or anywhere else either.
Could someone please fill me in. Many thanks.
Thio
29 October 2007 at 10:42 am
Ville Lumiere – A Parisian Travelogue
October 29th, 2007
“There is a French word which I really like to share with only you this evening. It’s a word that doesn’t lend itself easily to the English translation, “d’epaysement.” A few years ago, I shared a carriage with the Paris Bureau chief for the New York Times, his translation of the word felt just right.
“The feeling of not being assaulted by the familiarity of things, a change in surroundings where there is no immediate point of reference.”
He went on to add, “Most people don’t make it a point to d’epayses, only to end up re-creating a home they once knew in a place away from home….ensuring, they never ever left.”
This is unfortunate, as it’s too true. Although one may even spend years working, living and playing in a country, their unwillingness to d’epayses ensures they never really left home. What I usually find unfortunate is whenever I ask whether they joined the locals at the café for a morning croissant or an evening aperitif, shopped at the outdoor marche, went to the local fete, or people-watched in the place, the answer is invariably, “dowan lah.” They may have had an amazing boat ride on the Seine, but they don’t know the real Paris – one has to make it a point like I mentioned to be depayses – step off the boat and walk around for that sort of knowledge – even perhaps try to get lost.
Until you have really wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well”
To read the full article click here:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/the-city-of-lights-%e2%80%93-a-parisian-travelogue/#comments
Pls note regular BP readers. BP has moved to Dotty’s site called, “just stuff.”
Happy Reads!
Kokopops
29 October 2007 at 1:38 pm
Really cannot die one. Cannot. I notice every time someone hits them, they just bounce back harder and faster. Who ever it was who harrassed them, thanks so very much. I for one have always believed BP would benefit from a wider breadth of writers. Now even I can write for the BP. Just wondering what type of traffic are you getting in Just Stuff, bc regular readers have been told to log on direct? Thxs
30 October 2007 at 7:55 pm
Title of Article:
Is Secularism under Siege by Thio?
Brief Extract:
“Recently, Thio Li-Ann published an article entitle, “Secularim, the Singapore Way,” on the 30th Oct 2007, in the Strait Times.
In the article, she puts forward the proposition,
“In Singapore, secularism is useful as a framework to promote co-existence of different religions and belief systems…..however, reading “secularism” in an anti- theistic manner to exclude religious perspectives would no longer be a neutral position.”
To paraphrase, what the author is saying: to exclude religious groups from a discussion of policy may NOT even be democratic, as it only serves to marginalize a segment of society. She goes on to flesh out the proposition, that Singapore may even have such a thing as a “unique” model that doesn’t require the government to maintain as neutral an attitude as possible towards religion when deciding issues concerning the public.
While, I don’t disagree consultation with religious bodies or for that matter the RSPCA does add considerably to the depth of any public debate and can even produce beneficial outcomes.
The question is; whether it’s even desirable for political decisions to be influenced in part by religious beliefs?”
Click here to read the complete article:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/is-secularism-under-siege/#respond
KKP
30 October 2007 at 9:56 pm
hi
great post
2 November 2007 at 8:42 pm
New Article:
Missing The Mark by the Proverbial Mile – A Critique of Janadas Devan.
November 2nd, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Recently, I read with a mixture of disbelief and amazement how senior writer, Janadas Devan wrote about the parliamentary debate concerning S377A in Parliament – the article entitle: “377A debate and the rewriting of pluralism,” was nothing short of a vitriolic attack on NMP Thio Li-Ann’s parliamentary speech. Describing Prof Thio disparagingly as ‘a formidable warrior,’ who represents the ‘moral conservative majority’ – Mr Devan commits the sin of presumption by presupposing Prof Thio is above all a moralist, concerned only with handing out good conduct marks to cautious centrist and awarding failing grade to just about anyone who doesn’t subscribe to her straight jacketed conservative stance – never mind that this is hardly the case.”
Click here to Read More:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/missing-the-mark-by-the-proverbial-mile-%e2%80%93-a-critique-of-janadas-devan/#respond
KKP
6 November 2007 at 11:35 am
Get The Latest Brotherhood Article Here!
Article Title: 377A / The Psychology of Culture War
To Read The Complete Article, Click here:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/377a-the-psychology-of-culture-war/
KKP
7 November 2007 at 8:02 am
Title:
The Terrible Cost of Saying No To The Gay Community.
To Read Further Click here:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-terrible-cost-of-saying-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-to-the-gay-community/
Announcement: Dear Regular Readers,
-to enhance your reading pls switch over to SLF 3 / SLF 1 & 2 will be down for repairs @ 0630 local tmr.
KKP
7 November 2007 at 2:48 pm
“to enhance your reading pls switch over to SLF 3 / SLF 1 & 2 will be down for repairs @ 0630 local tmr.”
OK but when is it going to be online again? Why cant we just log in using our starhub account? Sorry but sounds very mafan.
8 November 2007 at 9:39 am
Title:
Letters From a Distant Country Called Catherine Lim.
To Read More, Click Here!
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/letters-from-a-distant-country-called-%e2%80%98catherine-lim%e2%80%99/
Happy Reading
KKP
12 November 2007 at 11:28 am
New Article: Are Singaporeans Really Apathetic?
Brief Extract:
“Before we dive into the debate, understand this! Apathy isn’t a disease anymore than perpetual masturbation constitutes a malady, it’s merely symptomatic of a mental disorder, very much in the way, Alzheimer disease causes amnesia – getting the pecking order right allows us to ascribe a sense of scale to the problem. It doesn’t give us the solutions, but it actually allows us to make sense of how the apathy calculus works.
For example, after three shots of vodka, I am not apathetic about fabricating all sorts of tall stories to impress a cute girl in a short skirt. Hwever, I remain terminally apathetic to the prospects of doing the same to a two metric ton auntie even after polishing whole quart of the same. That serves to illustrate my point economically: apathy is a direct function that flows from whether we perceive there is a valence between being engaged and reaping the expected benefits. Or remaining bochap (apathetic) because it’s simply not worth it to pursue a lousy pay out.”
To Read More Click Here:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/are-singaporeans-really-apathetic/
KKP
12 November 2007 at 8:09 pm
Hi KKP,
You are doing a good job. I just dropped by to say that.
14 November 2007 at 11:29 am
Title of Article:
Are Singaporeans Really Apathetic? Part II
Brief Extract:
“How is it that people who claim that we either live in an apathetic or engaged society, never ever seem to explain how they derived at this conclusion? Doesn’t it seem incongruous to you whether we are apathetic or engaged ought to be as amenable to investigation like whether the Lochness monster or the Yeti actually exist?
I believe this can be accomplished. However, I don’t believe this can be done by simply asking: are we living in an apathetic society?
That sort of question is bound to produce, the fallacy of faulty generalization.”
To Read Further Click Here:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/are-singaporeans-really-apathetic-part-ii/
KKP
15 November 2007 at 12:18 pm
Title of Article: The Day After The Press Died
November 15, 2007
Brief Extract:
“The press is dying. Too many authorities have assured it, that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are languishing. It has lost much public respect. Once venerated as the purveyor of all reason and truth, it looks more like a fevered dinosaur lumbering as an army of bloggers taunt it, no end with insolent jibes – it’s abused relentlessly in blogosphere. Will it be eventually bullied into acquiescing that its demise is inevitable?”
To Read More:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/the-day-after-the-press-died/
KKP
19 November 2007 at 5:58 pm
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/latest-book-the-tree-that-binds/
KKP
19 November 2007 at 7:56 pm
Latest Book! The Tree That Binds
November 19, 2007
Preamble:
“The Tree That Binds,” is based on a Korean series,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_70cP77XGU&mode=related&search=
Darkness watched during a flight to Japan – the story has been modified. To date over 20,000 copies have been sold.
It runs 48 chapters and retails for 103 Imperial Shekelians. Please contact your book club for further details.
Brief Extract:
Main Protagonist / Musings / Chapter 31 – The Revelation
“Pain can never be taken philosophically; otherwise it isn’t pain. Today Dr Kim told me she will certainly die within the month. Yet as I walked aimlessly through this streets, I feel nothing – can it be I am still yet to live and experience life? My eyes have hardly opened, have they? I am simply a child standing before the portal of life – all this is so clear when someone you love only once in your life has to suddenly leave you.
The old say, the more humane we become, the more likely we are to suffer the pain of others. To love simply means to embrace vulnerability, to be even woundable in the way a man grips and searches out the sweetness of her lover in a moment’s ache. Never made easier by the solace of simply observing from afar, but here where she is before me, I can no more deny her existence any more than I can say, I never once existed.
If it is not given me to know the course of time, then the best I can do is to be attentive, to watch the moments go by, to feel her occasional caress and to revel in her closeness. You could say this is how a man who has never loved ambles his away across this strange terrain.
It’s like trying to work my way along a wall in the dark, It doesn’t serve me to turn and rail against the wall; it may have been placed there so that I don’t slip and fall over the edge – that evening, after finishing my fifth cigarette – I decided to walk beside her again….slowly, one step at time, I retraced my steps to the hospital - lets see where it goes. If this is the script the story teller of life has penned for me, then I shall simply have to utter my lines! Do I even have a choice? What I will have to do can never be considered an accomplishment or failure worth mentioning – it’s simply what it takes to be a human being who loves another more than himself - to live for the moment, that is and not to expect anything in return except pain. You could say, I have finally discovered my purpose, my reason to live and a reason to enthomb my selfishness……and with it, this has to be the first day of my awakening….breathe…this is my first day and as day’s goes. A day when a man simply loves a woman.”
Darkness 2007
KKP
20 November 2007 at 11:35 am
Title of New Article: When Good Produces No Good
Publication Date: November 20, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Sorry, if this sounds a bit vague and even obscure, but I speed read and one of the after effects of regularly doing so - is only one or two things stay in the mind. While the rest just assumes a huge blur.
Recently, I read somewhere, some Doc (do you notice, it’s always a doctor) in the government doesn’t feel the need to lower the entry level for prospective political candidates because he believes, it would be tantamount to dumbing down the govt. He went on to add it’s important to maintain high standards to ensure that the candidates could withstand the rigors of public scrutiny etc.
Now let’s freeze frame this for a moment and repeat and play again. What really is doctor actually saying?”
To Read The Complete article, Click here!
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/when-good-produces-no-good/
KKP
21 November 2007 at 8:55 am
Title of Article: The Games Elites Play / Part I
Date: November 20, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Damn. I remember somewhere in my averagely miserable campus days, how I used joke about the old boys network. For most of it, I thought the stories were fictions, or at least grossly exaggerated and highly embellished accounts that didn’t really capture the reality of life.
Fast forward a few years and I realized, it’s only too true – the old boys network is everywhere – it’s in industry, churches and even in clubs, where people regularly meet on a weekend to play an innocent game of scramble.”
Click here to read more:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/the-games-elites-play-part-i/
KKP
21 November 2007 at 10:54 am
Title of Article:
Why is Temasek, the Poor Little Rich Girl Everyone Loves to Hate?
November 21, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Singapore’s leaders may not be accustomed to watching their effigies burn on CNN. And yet this was what happened Sept last year. Bearing the full brunt of the public ire was Temasek Holdings. Having taken up a $3.7 billion equity stake in Shin Corp, Thaksin’s flagship Telco firm, Temasek found itself sucked into a political maelstrom.
Recently, Indonesia’s anti-monopoly agency began investigating Temasek when an Indonesian labour union filed a complaint, alleging that Temasek violated anti-monopoly laws – it seems Temasek may have run foul into another political maelstorm again?
What’s really happening here? Is this the curse of Tutankhamen making it’s millennium rounds to this part of the tropics? Why are Singaporean firms like Temasek, so susceptible to the perils of being regularly single out for unnecessary attention? I know, it’s not fair – I even know, there may be no evidence to suggest they should even ‘find fault’ with us in the first place!– in fact there is every evidence to suggest, they may even be irrational, but what really is at the heart of the gripe?”
Click here to read more:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/why-is-temasek-the-poor-little-rich-girl-everyone-loves-to-hate/
KKP
23 November 2007 at 10:51 am
Great. This is a great way to inform, but why cant we log on using our normal acc? Why do we have to follow stupid BP rules abt logging?
24 November 2007 at 11:09 am
Title of Article: The Games Elites Play - Part II
Publication Date: November 24, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Oh yeah, elitism requires an exaction of fear on society.
This naturally leads us to consider; what’s the antidote for fear? Stands to reason, right? If fear predominates, then the group that is able to successfully ameliorate it, is able to garner a cachet of loyal adherents – it’s the standard medicine man, shaman or rain maker con job.
Here the trick takes its cue from medicine, what it cannot cure, it will attempt to alleviate by numbing away the pain. That’s the reason why every order of the elitism needs to deliver an effective means of successfully transforming the history of tragedy into fostering personal growth and salvation – give me 10% of your salary and you will be saved! – keep to the system and the system will keep you!”
To Read More Click Here!
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/the-games-elites-play-part-ii/
KKP
26 November 2007 at 11:54 am
Why does a higly educated, well brought up and stunning girl like Miss Dotty want to get involved with a scum bag like Darkness of the brotherhood for?
26 November 2007 at 1:55 pm
that’s the eternal puzzle: why do girls like bad boys??
26 November 2007 at 1:57 pm
i dunno dotty. i also dunno darkness.
perhaps they’re partners? i mean… usu need both a good as well as a bad person at the helm of any successful org…
26 November 2007 at 1:59 pm
but im sure lhl likes dotty. so she’s taken. and we all know how powderful that guy is.
26 November 2007 at 2:02 pm
tho for all you know… dotty is just the alter ego of darkness.
yes, it just gets more confusier and confusinger, doesn’t it?
it’s like a friend i know… his alter ego is called vivian. and vivian is a superwoman type of figure who saves men with the dental floss she keeps in her come-f-me boots.
serious.
26 November 2007 at 2:11 pm
thks for letting me post again. but better not post already
26 November 2007 at 3:06 pm
nb. in case i get misunderstood:
‘lhl’ of the brotherhood. not the one in sg.
this is virtual. so signs may not follow the same sigh-object r/s outside virtuality; cannot presume.
coz i noticed lhl shouted down darkness before, then darkness went cycling. so lhl must be rather powderful mah.
26 November 2007 at 5:03 pm
“dotty is just the alter ego of darkness” I am really sorry, but I really don’t believe you know what you are talking abt. Dotty went to school with me. She is a very nice girl. As for Darkness, I don’t know which hole he came from. FYI LHL is a charbo, not a tapor.
26 November 2007 at 9:52 pm
yah wat, speculate cannot meh
27 November 2007 at 8:56 am
November 26, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Subject: Bloggers’ meeting : 4th Dec 2007
“The issue here is very straight forward: what is the most effective way to root out radicalism in the internet or for that matter anywhere? Is it by regulating and policing? If that is really a solution, then Iraq today would be the most peaceful country in the world today, because per square kilometer per capita, it is the most policed place on this planet! But instead crime and radical elements continue to proliferate no end.
This underscores the need to craft a holistic policy which is able to address the underlying roots of radicalism and even the best security experts are unanimous the only way to sensibly accomplish this is by creating the conditions for ‘good elements’ to take hold and hopefully take off – much of what constitutes the ‘good elements’ needs to be self sustaining, so no matter how one cuts it, one can never run away from creating a vibrant ecology that continually attracts the best in creative talent and more importantly capital i.e the creation of a sustainable online economy.
However, to reach there one needs to be able to see the entire issue of security / sustainable economy with a sense of scale and perspective – this cannot be over estimated!
As I mentioned previously, terrorism is a serious problem, but let us not confuse the internet (medium) with terrorism, they could just as well spread their message of hate using homing pigeons, Morse code or cue cards. Fact remains, the vast majority of bloggers are peace loving folk – confusing the issue is like saying all cars should be banned because a minority of people regularly drink and drive causing accidents – that may be a palpable truth, but to assume that is in any way representative of the car owning community is just plain silly and to even suggest for one moment that should form the basis, rationale and logic of introducing regulatory measures to ban all automobiles is crazy – if we can appreciate this cannot be practically done for automobiles, trains and aeroplanes (which incidentally were used as missiles to plough into the World Trade centre), then why should this shitty 2 cell logic apply to the internet? – can anyone tell me?
Besides the last time I checked our ministers are paid $2.2 million, so what are the type of questions serious people would ask?
Firstly, they will ask, can you share with us your master plan for creating a sustainable online community? What are the elements which are required for this to take off? For instance, how do you propose to create an environment which is able to attract the most creative talent to the local scene? What are the elements which will form the basis of attracting investment into the internet? As you can see the questions aren’t so different from how one may cross examine the trade and industry minister – however please don’t confuse this with hardware and infrastructure, I am referring specifically to software or thoughtware ONLY. Any fool can lay out miles and miles of co-axial cable again or built transmission beacons that requires only $2.20 of imagination, the really smart people ask – hey what is your long term plan for the brain juice to handshake with the infrastructure?
But don’t hold your breathe if you don’t get any answers – you know why that’s the part that really requires skill, imagination and creativity. Now you know why everyone is happy to play the national security card! Once you ppl decide to get serious, put $2.2 million in small notes in a bin bag and give me a call, I will come along in my bicycle and pick it up and hopefully we can sit down and really do something meaningful. As it is, I am not interested, because as I mentioned previously the level of interest and commitment is still woefully lacking, I don’t deal with amateurs!”
Darkness 2007
27 November 2007 at 5:42 pm
*shakes head*
gong jiao wei
28 November 2007 at 10:08 am
Title of Article: The Games Elites Play - The Final Chapter
Publication Date: November 28, 2007
Brief Extract:
“This is the final chapter in a trilogy - this is also the part where I drop the big one and we end it all with a bang! So lets dive in: What makes elites, elites? That’s to say, why do they do the things, they do? Yes, I know power, influence and position certainly features in this equation – but, what if I told you, elites actually believe they are righteous and even good when they are bashing gays, pulling out nails out of people and generally making life miserable for the rest of us?
That’s to say, they don’t see themselves as bad asses any more than those Moslem fanatics who once hijacked a commercial airliner and ploughed it into the world Trade center saw themselves as evil. Instead they actually believe they’re pure, enlightened and even see the world clearer than you or I….that’s what makes them so dangerous.”
Click here to read more:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/the-games-elites-play-the-final-chapter/
KKP
28 November 2007 at 10:41 pm
Title of Article: Can We Afford To Mess Around With The Internet?
Publication Date: November 28, 2007
Brief Extract:
“I am sure it’s all over the grapevine by now – a government committee is out to compile a report on the internet…gulp. As usual, it’s a development that has generated considerable consternation in blogosphere – some have labeled it, simply as yet another attempt to control and regulate the internet, they want nothing to do with it. Others feel real or imagined. This was simply just another ploy designed to cower wayward bloggers to behave or else…… The oblique threat is clear, we live in a world of implications. So now you know the facts of life.”
Click here to read more:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/can-we-afford-to-mess-around-with-the-internet/
KKP
30 November 2007 at 1:33 am
Title of Article: The Terrible Cost of ‘Regulating’ The Internet
Publication Date: November 30, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Why don’t I feel it’s necessary to engage the consultative committee?
The short answer is, by them even obliquely proposing the cure for this state of apparent chaos in the internet can only be brought forth by legislation, they don’t even realize they are doing more harm then good.
Firstly, it demonstrates a lack of understanding for what actually constitutes much of the aggregation which makes up the internet scene: the apparent anarchy which currently exists in the net is merely an artifact of its infancy. It’s the same observable primordial phenomenon that once spawned life on this planet. All organisms eventually undergo a phase of rationalization before doing so, they invariably go through a stage of maturing; convalescing from a state of anarchy to hierarchy, the internet is no exception to this rule!”
To Read More Click here:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/the-real-cost-of-regulating-the-internet/
KKP
30 November 2007 at 3:43 pm
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/hello-brotherhood/#comment-9
Pls thank Dotty for her concern on my behalf.
However, pls also send word that her concern is unappreciated.
For the problem with Christians is that you never know what their concern is motivated by; whether “concern for others” is motivated by deep self-deception.
30 November 2007 at 3:47 pm
Prefer to be left alone.
30 November 2007 at 4:29 pm
“Prefer to be left alone.” = away from Spores that I don’t like.
1 December 2007 at 5:08 pm
but, can you REALLY trust the gahmen??!
____________________
The Shadow Fox said:
December 1, 2007 at 2:05 pm
the only accountability is INTERNAL. if you do not trust that, then you gotta resort to the rule of laws.
if you go that way, you draw all of us to the CENTER.
and in the eternal words without shades and shadows, that’s where conflict and death REIGNS!
1 December 2007 at 10:12 pm
A belated reply, to Dotty
Not to mention of course, that the “Singapore elites” are first and foremost, the one utterly lacking in grace and humility.
—
Correction:
Just not, academics, of Singapore.
—
Whatever one’s problems with the GLBT community, no one can fault a speech like this:
That is, not even the academics.
Because they can never write a similar speech, anyway.
1 December 2007 at 10:13 pm
I see the speech, absent.
It is here.
3 December 2007 at 9:30 am
Title: When Even The “Experts” Can Get It So Very Wrong? Part 1
Publication Date: December 2, 2007
Brief Extract:
“Have you ever asked yourself, why good ideas turn to mud? Remember Shin Corp? Started well, right? Till it all unraveled like the onion story, the more you peel, the more you cry, finally ending up with a big zero. What about the Segway, the machine that was supposed to kill the car? Where’s that great idea now? What! Languishing in theme parks for 10 cents per ride!
What about latest idea of ‘regulating’ the internet? Sounds like a good idea right?…”
Click here to read more:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/when-even-the-%e2%80%9cexperts%e2%80%9d-can-get-it-wrong/
KKP
4 December 2007 at 11:37 pm
Title: When Even The ‘Experts’ Can Get It So Wrong? - Part II
Publication Date: December 4, 2007
Brief Extract:
“I don’t deny the allure of regulating may even promise short term returns, quick fixes and even the panacea of a ‘would be cure all.’ It may even beacon out the murk in the midst of otherwise mind-numbing complexity and diversity: may even be seen to be effective in promoting the ‘right’ behavior, attitude and response ; may even be economical to the enterprise of keeping the MSM in business by ensuring it’s monopoly remains unchallenged.
However to believe for one moment, that all this can be accomplished without recognizing it’s visceral cost is just a travesty of rational reasoning – life simply cannot be that simple. It just cannot…….”
Click Here To Read More:
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/when-even-the-experts-can-get-it-wrong-part-ii/
KKP
6 December 2007 at 7:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8I1ir2CaLg&feature=related
“The best game in the world.” Join our family.
Darkness 2006
6 December 2007 at 7:51 pm
“Go I will give you wings to fly!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FEKIJZzdZg&search=final%20fantasy
7 December 2007 at 10:32 am
Title: When Speed Kills - The Way of The Tortoise
Publish Date: December 7, 2007
Brief Extract:
“SINCE the advent of the industrial revolution, speed and productivity has commanded a premium. Today in the age of globalisation, life has reached a frenetic mind boggling pace. Technology makes it all possible, e-mail on the go, tele-conferencing etc. The pace of work, life and play is imperceptibly ratcheted slightly higher without us really realizing it. I am reminded we can no more return to the quaint cottage industry days, than we can undo the internet. The age of speed is here to stay. But it doesn’t stop us from questioning this new order.>The hamster wheel is an apt pathos of life under this new order. For one it pokes fun at the imperative of speed but it also carries a serious message, one that suggests the future could be closer to dystopia than utopia. What’s the cost to this preoccupation with speed? There’s always a cost. Our sinews, muscles and brain cells can’t keep on getting larger and better to keep up with the culture of speed – surely something must give.”
To Read More Click Here!
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/when-speed-kills-the-way-of-the-tortoise/
KKP
9 December 2007 at 12:23 pm
This is for baby bambi Darkness Boy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GXG_I9tCRug
Enjoy and do comment.
9 December 2007 at 6:25 pm
Bear Bear,
I think, most of them are here right now
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/when-even-the-experts-can-get-it-wrong-part-ii/#comments
However, Veronicatan has written something nice and it seems to hit the spot for me, whenever I think abt Bad Boy Bambi,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GG-OdnpQ3w
Obby
9 December 2007 at 7:21 pm
That’s one hell of a great cupboard you have there.
9 December 2007 at 7:36 pm
You know I want to be nice, but I cannot, bc this is stupid, it is stupid when another human being regards another human being more than just another human being.
If you really want to do that, there is even a pastor who goes around building malls in the name of Jesus Christ, maybe you want to go him and sell or body to him or something. That loser will take it from what I hear.
I am just not interested.
This is just incredibly stupid. You want to know the truth, I am just like you, no better or worse.
Darkness 2007
I expect this kinda of post to be moderated in future!
10 December 2007 at 2:04 pm
Hello Obby,
Long time no see, thats just incredibly sensitive and sweet of veronicatan, nearly had another cavity just day dreaming abt it. Btw where did you dig out those old vids from? Sounds nice.
11 December 2007 at 1:02 pm
I met Bambi Darkness once long bfr he had his run in with his church. He came across as a remarkably well educated man with manners impossibly hard to fault, a man of wit and a great humanitarian, who had this genuine sense that he actually believed in what he said. After the incident with his church, he changed completely, it was slow acting poison. I dont even believe, he realized it himself. These days I dont even believe, I can pick him out in a crowd any more. The Bambi Boy, I used to know just disappeared.
11 December 2007 at 7:52 pm
pp. 53-54 of a book
As a parable of a gifted person, “The Shoemaker and the Elves” is also a parable for artists. Most artists early on find themselves in the position of the shoemaker on the first night — a talent has appeared, but it’s naked, immature. Ahead lie the years of reciprocal labor which precede the release of an accomplished gift. To take a literary example, George Bernard Shaw underwent a typical period of retreat and maturation before he emerged as a writer. The young Shaw started a career in business and felt the threat not of failure but of success. “I made good in spite of myself, and found, to my dismay, that Business, instead of expelling me as the worthless imposted I was, was fastening upon me with no intention of letting go.” He was twentry. “In Marche, 1876, I broke loose,” he says. He left family, friends, business and Ireland. He spent about eight years ‘in absentia’, writing constantly (five novels, published only toward the end of his life — and then with a note by Shaw asking the buyer not to read them). Erik Erikson has commented:
“Potentially creative men like Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden. Often, when the weeds are dead, so is the garden. At the decisive moment, however, some make contact with a nutriment specific for theif gifts. For Shaw, of course, this gift was literature.”
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.
11 December 2007 at 8:08 pm
if it ever comes
11 December 2007 at 8:47 pm
I think I can understand what Bambi Darkness might be going thru. I’ve read of it before. Sometimes, when things pile up, the gift can be exhausted in totality.
12 December 2007 at 1:34 pm
I dunno, I find it really strange when he just prefers to be alone all the time. I don’t believe its healthy. I remember he wasnt always like that. However, Zombie girl you could well be right, I remember having read abt such morose characters myself, they are always ripped apart by something and they just split open like firewood.
I heard from a friend that darkness wasnt always like this. According to this friend, as he went deeper and deeper into the gaming world, he realized that all his ideals and illusions abt a better world etc were being systematically stripped away, till he stood completely broken and naked.
That was the point when he was re-born that was also the point in his life when he began to identify very much with the main protagonist in Conrad’s book, the heart of darkness. Bambi wrote long tracks abt it, often they were written in a style as if he was reflecting to himself. He said he saw the terror, violence and destructive nature of even those who played such a thing as the game, like the hero in the novel, he couldnt understand where it came from, and it ripped him into a thousand pieces.
Then the church dropped the atomic bomb on him, that I believed was the straw that broke the camels back.
Since that day, he turned his back on them and became known as Darkness. In his mind, I reckoned, he figured out, they were just a bad, just better at pretending that was all.
12 December 2007 at 2:11 pm
“just better at pretending”
depending on your point-to-view, it can also be read as “dishonest” and/or “deceitful in their hearts”.
becau