Stop Yulin 2015?
Yesterday, 10 000 dogs were slated to be eaten at a dog-meat eating festival in a place called Yulin in China. There was a lot of media controversy about this festival and an online petition going around to protest it. Some people with the means "rescued" the dogs meant to be eaten by buying them, apparently with the plan of rehoming them, to give them a "second chance" at life. I was among the many who signed the online petition and expressed outrage online at this festival
An NS story
This is a post I've been thinking about writing for a long while, but hesitated about for a really long while. BMT For the sake of chronology, I will start at the beginning: the day G enlisted for National Service. I remember we had a silent lunch at the Manhattan Fish Market outlet at some mall in Pasir Ris. If the men in Singapore can be classified into a simple binary-- those who are enthusiastic about NS because it represents machoness, bravado and all things manly and th
