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The organization for Women’s Rights, AWARE, is holding their EGM Suntec City’s Convention Center, Hall 402 this Saturday (2nd May) at 2pm. This gives women a chance to cast a vote of no confidence to the new EXCO whom are mostly made up of Christians whose reasons of taking over the old EXCO were to act in God’s name as they feel that the old EXCO were pro-gay.

Men rejoice! Now is the best time to advise your female friends and relatives to NOT go down to the EGM, and this is why…

Female Christians should run AWARE
6 out of the 12 committee positions are held by Christian women from Church of Our Saviour. Why is this awesome? Just look at their notes on ‘God’s Order For The Family’. Here are some of the highlights!

• The wife is in subjection to her husband
• Head of every woman is the man
• (God’s) will for a young woman is to do 4 things: marry, bear children, guide the house, not be a reproach to her husband
• Wives are to choose the submissive role freely
• Submission means to continually deny themselves and yield the rule to men

 

Men! Good news ain’t it? Since most of the committee is made up of women from a church with such teachings and since they are on a mission for God, it’s going to be great! We don’t need women to have rights. All we want is a woman marry, near us children and not be a reproach to us. All women should also deny themselves and yield the rule to us. Way to go!

So take this chance to stop women from denying the actions of the new EXCO. Better yet, ask women to support the new EXCO. It’s about time the real women take over a Women’s Rights group.

Spread His word! *Guffaws*

Instead of turning on music tracks before I sleep these days, I turn on sound tracks that are hour long recordings of the sounds of nature. Besides the therapeutic effects of having sounds like waves on the beach or raindrops in a forest, I also prevent the possibility of having a screaming Linkin Park song play right before I fall into deep sleep.

Like any other usual night before I fall asleep, I turned on my iPod Nano that is decked on a portable speaker system and turned on the playlist for the sounds of nature and I proceeded to lie on the bed while surfing on my iPhone before I fall asleep. Every track of the sounds of nature usually starts off at a low volume before rising into a more audible level and I started to hear a sound that resembled wind blowing by.

It went “WooOoOOoooooOOoooOoooooOOooooo~~~~” at a barely audible volume. The lower and upper case letters of ‘WooOooOo’ are representing the different tones of the sound and not my poor imitation of teEnS DaT tYPe LyKE DiS.

Thinking that my speakers’ volume was set too low, I got up from the bed and propped my ears against the speakers and realized that the sound wasn’t coming from them at all. I sat back on my bed and attributed it to my imagination but again it went,

“WoooOOOOOOooooooOOOooooo~~~”

That certainly wasn’t my imagination and I stood up again to head for the window to check it there were huge gusts of wind that is causing the sounds.

Nothing. No wind at all and I am still hearing the sound and it was even more audible from the window. By now, most people would have already freaked out as it was already past midnight and the sound is starting to sound less like a wind and more like the kind of sound you would make when you want to imitate a ghost and scare a 5-year-old. Being a man of reason, I stood with half my face out the window like a peeping tom who just spotted a girl changing across the next building in order to determine where the sound came from.

“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooOOOOOooOOOOO~!!!!” The sound came even louder and longer and I realized where it came from.

From the 6th storey where I live, I could see hints of a yellow canvas at the void deck that reminded me that there is a Chinese funeral being held there. I couldn’t see the exact source of the sound but it became quite apparent that there was a woman wailing – at times at the top of her lungs – at the funeral below.

I understand that she must be really devastated at the lost of a loved one judging from the pitiful wailing but to be doing that so loudly at the stroke of midnight; I can’t help but think that she made quite a lot of neighbours scratch their heads outside their windows, check their speakers or shiver under their blankets before going back to sleep.

Unless you’ve been living under the ground, digging for dragon eggs in Singapore, I’m sure you have heard of the situation about AWARE Singapore. If you have not, let me help by explaining what is AWARE and what has been going on.

AWARE is a not-for-profit, non-government 25-year-old organization in Singapore by women, for women which has a vision of improving the quality of life of women in Singapore by promoting equality. A couple of months before AWARE’s AGM held in March, there was a suddenly rise in membership and out of the 100 odd members that attended the AGM, about 80 were actually new members. No surprise at what came next. 9 out of 12 of the executive committee (EXCO) places went to the new members, including the position of the president of AWARE.

True enough to speculation, the new president, Josie Lau and the new EXCO came out in the open and admitted that it was an orchestrated move to takeover the old EXCO of AWARE and the reasoning given is that the old EXCO has turned AWARE into a pro-homosexual organization and the new EXCO wants to correct that in god’s name and bring AWARE back to it’s roots. (Correct me if I am wrong about this.)

I can be sure enough to say that many people, including Christians, disagree with what the new EXCO is doing. Bringing religion into a secular organization like AWARE and telling everyone that the takeover was because the old EXCO did pro-homosexuality things like bringing it up during sexual education in schools, screened a ‘lesbian film’ and invited homosexual people to share during speeches. Being homosexual is just the way it is. The gay kids won’t turn any less gay if he/she doesn’t take part in the sexual educations, watched the film or listen to the homosexual people speak. In fact, learning to embrace homosexuality at a younger age will lower sexual discrimination and reduce confusion.

AWARE is an organization by WOMEN, for WOMEN which has a vision of improving the quality of life of WOMEN in Singapore by promoting EQUALITY. Now which part of part of the vision resonates with its new members bringing religion into play and claiming that homosexuality is wrong. Are homosexual women not women? Are homosexual women not deserving of equality? The agenda of anti-homosexuality can very well be carried out if these Christians set up an organization of their own. But no, they had to take over a secular 25-year-old women’s rights organization and claim their actions to be in god’s name.

These women bring Christians a bad name in my humble opinion.

Saying all that, I am just a straight man living in this world and if you are a Singaporean woman and you value WOMEN’S rights which is what the real AWARE should be all about, go involve yourself in their Extraordinary General Meeting (EOGM) on 2 May, Saturday where you can have a chance to make your voice count. Details can be found here.

[Image by ehoyer]

On Saturday night, KuKuNehNeh went out with her girlfriends for a night of drinking and I stayed at her place. Having the house to myself with her parents fast asleep and her sister over at Malaysia, I naturally helped myself with an unhealthy dinner and snacks while watching the Liverpool game.

She didn’t have a chance to ask how my evening went as I fell asleep right after walking her up the lift at 3am and it was only this morning when she had the chance to ask.

“Morning Dear! How was your evening yesterday? So what did you do?”

“Er….. I played iPhone games and watched Liverpool win the game lor.” I groggily answered her while trying to figure out where I am in space and time.

“You finished the packet of Cheezels is it?”

“No I didn’t! I ate a bit only. More than half the packet is in the fridge.”

“And you drank bubble tea is it?”

“Eh? How you know? You searched the bin?”

“And what you eat for dinner?”

“Errrrrr… I had fried chicken wings, fries and a couple of butter buns.”

“Wah lao!!! So UNHEALTHY! Drink bubble tea some more!”

“Er…. hehehehe.” I sheepishly grinned as I changed the topic expertly.

 

Can’t help but have this image of her rummaging through the dustbin before I woke up in the morning. Gotta learn how to hide the evidence better.