COOS is going to turn the Society for the Visually Handicapped to the Society for the Biblically Handicapped. LOL.

Its very traumatic for me, actually this FM thing. Now when i am driving, I have to listen to CDs rather thant the radio coz i don’t dare to turn on the FM.

1) Society for the Visually Handicapped.
2) Nature Society Singapore
3) Cat Welfare Society
4) National Kidney Foundation
5) SPCA.

I personally think they”ll go after the Nature Society. Apparently, the tree huggers there have been teaching kids all the wrong things about the birds and the bees.

mention the abbrevated FM in any site or blog relating AWARE, and none will be left clueless.

we all know what FM means and the power of those 2 letters :)

a very cartoon dowager now

a good lesson not to anyhow point fingers & stoke fear. i really wonder how they will explain to their children this whole hoohaa. or will their next generation be gearing up for the next….

Had a bad experience at the end when this old lady standing beside me asked me to keep quiet when Josie and gang came out to tell us (like we don’t know) they are stepping down. I kept quiet thinking she wanted to hear Josie and when I start cheering she scolded me for not respecting other human being and that Josie is a human being and have their opinion too. Which of course got my friends stepping in and telling her that we too have our own opinion and we too have the rights too say out our opinion. Things might get ugly if not for “We Are Aware” team who was fast to step in and pull us away and told us that she is the New Guard supporter.

Of course after knowing that, we simply ignore her and she left before trying so hard to piss me off further with her comments.

Yes, it was fantastic wasn’t it? The Good Guys Won.

Despite all the disinformation and distortions that have been pouring out these few days (I still find the ” concerned parents – aghast that homosexuality still exists” line the funniest – after two years, suddenly there are so many instant concerned parents Haha!)

TSM was shouted down each time she tried to speak and she is such a bad public speaker. She tried to start her first speech by listing her achievements such as first female dean of law school etc but that just inflamed the crowd and she then started shouting “respect your elders” …hoo boy, what a riot.

I am glad that there was ROBUST defence of the marginalised- including the gays in our families, workplaces- and none in AWARE copped out of this for fear of negative publicity or to win some imaginary public ‘acceptance’. I felt damn proud as a heterosexual woman. I tell you that even Josie and gang could not but make repaeted statements – through gritted teeth maybe-that they do not support discrimination.

Brief summary : Got there at about 12.30pm but the queue was so long that it took me 1.5 hours to get into the conference hall. the meeting started late becasue so many people were waiting outside to be registered. There was strict security and bag checks before entry was allowed.

I think well over 2000 members and at least 500 associate members- men and foreigners- turned up. Young and old, families, people of all races and religions, very calm during the wait to get in, lots of smiles and new friends made.

The registration and ther organisational legwork was sourced out to Ape communications, the operation of the election procedures to Boardroom (some commercial outfit that does this) and the other operations to one more firm. Very corporate like! BUt nothing compared to the ORIGINAL AWARE volunteer mobilisation which was impressive. The jokers who did the counting took over 3 hours to send in the result. Btw when the members tried to ask how much it all cost, we did not get an answer until hours later – the exco was that deceitful and evasive- but listen, here was the sum : $90 000!!! Earlier in the queue I was talking to an AWARE helpline volunteer whohad been there the nite Josie and gang changed the locks and set up cctv (did you know about that?). She was complaining about how the phoneline counsellors did not even have proper headsets – to do their job better- and I think she may have passed out on hearing about the sum spent. AWARE should personally hold Josier and gang accountable because AWARE ‘s constitutional rules forbid expenditure aboue $20 000 a month. This formally mentioned and noted during the meeting.

Ok the meeting was totally iimpassioned and pretty raucous – i have lost my voice from cheering so much!- esp when the FM spoke. FANTASTIC crowd! Speaker after speaker, muslim, chriostian, straight, gay, old and young lined up to condemn the exco.

We were pretty roused but we did not start out that way. Josie and gang tried to subvert and control the entire EGM by not letting us speak. They switched off the mikes, threatened people with the security guards and it was a battle to raise basic points of order. Sally Ang at one point early on screamed : SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! The whole hall erupted . we were often on out feet, waving our hands and applauding the speakers from the floor – let us just say 97% of them slammed the Josie & jokers repeatedly and everyone of these 97% was articulate, impassioned and outclassed the 3 % who spoke for the other side by a zillion miles. You had to be there to see it! The FM was heckled and booed and basically the crowd indicated to her to to F*** Off. I immensely enjoyed that part of the proceedings, she totally deserved it.

Well were there till way past 9, got the job done of getting rid of the new rubbish and making history of some sort for civic organisations. There was a huge feeling of camaraderie and community – that can only be good for Singapore. I did not even have a bite to eat until 10 pm but the feeling of standing up to be counted for something so basic as diversity and plurality was so good I tell you.

1414-old vs 700-new;
1412 -old vs 712-new;
1419-old vs 700-new.

All 3 motions won by old.

Now still bickering. Old vs new
New refuse to step down in massive defeat. Like all Evangelistic Christians, thick skin or else how to evangelise.

If so that is yet another case of “double standards” practised by her and the new Exco.

Her matriarchal nature has had her self -elevated herself to that of an empress dowager ……….

Long live this dowager for having this privilege – she rightfully deserved it and even more so for it to be perpetuated – only reserve for the royalty hor……

I can see why you equate sex education with “selling porn and drugs and glue for sniffing in schools”. After all you equated the Satan-talking-homophobe “Dr” Frank Joseph to a scholarly source.

“Would you like your child’s tapestry be soiled by some perverts who leave their alternative lifestyle marks on it like “Oh, gay anal sex is healthy” and “same sex marriage is normal” even though they both violate Singapore laws?”

The more you go on, the more I’m worried my child’s “tapestry” will be “soiled” by bigots. They can come in such righteous and seemingly reasonable guises, by quoting statistics, for example.

P.S. There’s evidence that we don’t come into the world Tabula Rasa (blank slate). Proper research was done by Steven Pinker (don’t be scared of “pink”)

P.S.S He doesn’t go around calling himself doctor lest nobody takes him seriously.

1″The first group took your position and argued that condoms encouraged promiscuity.

Selling porn and drugs and glue for sniffing in schools should also not be allowed as the temptation is too great to resist.

2″Somebody from the second group said: If your neighbours built a pool and you think your children are tempted to take a dip. Is building a tall fence enough? Isn’t it more prudent to teach them how to swim?”

I can agree with this argument when it comes to saving a child’s life in the water.

But lest we forget a child’s life is like a clean TAPESTRY in which everyone he/she meets leaves a mark.

Would you like your child’s tapestry be soiled by some perverts who leave their alternative lifestyle marks on it like “Oh, gay anal sex is healthy” and “same sex marriage is normal” even though they both violate Singapore laws?