Waydespectives

Dear all, this is my 10th post since starting this blog. For those who have been reading from the start, thank you for your continuous viewership! For those who just joined or read once in a while, you're more than welcome to continue reading my Waydespectives :). I have received a lot of support for this blog, so my "verbal commendation" to all who have given me ideas or comments for my blog. I will improve and keep trying to do better! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recently, I celebrated my 19th anniversary of staying on the face of this Earth without being wiped out by any meteor of sorts. In other words (I.e. to say), I celebrated my 19th Birthday last Friday. It wasn't as per other people's birthdays, where they hold lavish parties or go clubbing the entire night. It was more of a simple dinner with my family on Friday even...

Last evening, Pink Dot SG celebrated their 10th anniversary. Thousands thronged Hong Lim Park decked in pink to mark this occasion. The event was capped off with a light up at the end, a sea of pink with a large "READY" in white to signify this year's theme, "We Are Ready". The event coincided with the National Day Parade Rehearsal, so there was this significant moment when the helicopters with the national flag flew past Hong Lim Park. It is then when I thought, it is really time to discuss if Singapore is indeed ready to accept the LGBT society yet. There has been a lot of discourse about it over the last few years, be it through interviews with PM Lee Hsien Loong and an old interview with late Founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, or also be it through the controversy Pink Dot events have caused (or gone through). It is certainly time for us to take note on how far the LGBT society has come in Singapore, and whether is it time for us to take the next ste...

Recently, I have had a class gathering with my old Y5/6 NUSHS class when I was told that there are people who are in salty (otherwise known as shocked and in disbelief) that I was given an offer to study Law at NUS (the SMU Law offer was less surprising), making me one of the very few from my cohort to get offers from both local Law Schools. Honestly, while it is certainly not healthy for a friendship to involve "salt", I do understand where this friend is coming from. At least 8 people from my cohort applied to NUS Law, of which 3 got offers. The other 2 turned down their offers, one to go overseas on scholarship, the other to fulfill the scope of his scholarship. That leaves only me from my cohort to enter NUS Law. For the 2 that turned down the NUS offers, I fully recognize their abilities to have been good lawyers, as they have performed very well in English while in school. I have also participated in MUNs with them during my MUN-ning stints, and found them ...

Today's post will be a slightly shorter one since it's been a busy weekend (occupied with sleeping and eating). I will answer 2 questions that I have been thinking of in recent times. I attribute this post to a friend who I have discussed this previously. The scope of this discussion is Law, Society, and Politics. 1) Why do different countries have different laws? The constitution of each nation sets the fundamental principles in which how the nation is to be run, and consequently how laws are to be set. Arguably, the constitution represents the people. The laws set under this constitution are based on the principles on how the nation is run. Laws are set to represent the people. In other words, lawmakers create laws to best represent the sentiments of people of a particular issue. It lays the groundwork for a nation of what is right and wrong, be it under civil, commercial, criminal, or any other types of law. For example, in different interviews in 2015 and 2...

Happy SAF Day! I don't really know why SAF Day is always set for 1st July, but hey, it's a great day to celebrate what we've accomplished through NS so far, the most important achievement being making it to this point. Hopefully us NSFs will make it through the SAF Day Parades tomorrow. I write this post with a tinge of sadness, for after tomorrow it'll start a new chapter in my NSF life. After tomorrow, all the friends who I have met along the way will not be at my unit anymore. Some of them have already been posted to their technician unit, some will be posted tomorrow, and some I haven't met since the end of BMT. After tomorrow, new people will walk alongside me, "i.e. to say" my new friends from TTMSB, where we manage our unit and the new batch of trainees.  As this chapter closes, it is appropriate I write a tribute to those who came along the last 132 days. Leopard coy was where my NSF life all began. I still remember riding the dread...