MINDEF banned singing Purple Light

"Purple Light", a marching song sung by many NSmen, which included the lines:

"Booking out, see my girlfriend

Saw her with another man 

Kill the man, rape my girlfriend

With my rifle and my buddy and me."

Can't help but decided to post this after reading it. Though it's just another move by the institution on something insignificant to the well-being of the nation, i just feel angst for the halt of the song.

Maybe it does sound rude and un-gentleman, but man, a song is a song. You can't ban a culture which went through generations of NSFs.

There are tonnes of other more detrimental issues in the institution, which calls for more review and actions and not this which is really a show of bad faith with the guys who put their body and soul into the National Service.

I'm not against National Service, and i understand some of the measures they do to keep the national security intact, but this? Come-on, give NSFs a break.

IPPT for NSMen are causing more deaths then singing a song like this. Where is the review and ban for that?

Only in Singapore.


Source: http://therealsingapore.com/content/mindef-banned-nsfs-singing-purple-light-because-lyrics-are-degrading-towards-women

New blog up

After 2 evenings of codings (sorta convinced myself that since i'm doing less programming at work now, this is a good reminder of how i should minimally get myself some revision) to get it back and running with a new template, i finally managed to get this blog "revived".

Not a fanciful one, just like the simple look and feel. Spent most of the time working on getting the initial template which i got online into cleaner look and feel. Most importantly to "host" the necessary background and images myself. For those who had experience with blog would appreciate that. Because after you ripped someone's template, the hosting of the images for the blog to appear, may just be gone any day without notice.

So advice to all, do host your own images if you're just as lazy as i am, taking free template which uses icons/images to create the look of the site.

I'm pretty distracted now. Reading some internet stuff. Will share it if i happen to dwell deeper into them.

Till then.

Revival of Blogging

It's been eons since i last blogged. Yes, despite attempting to move away to Wordpress, i guessed i still didn't want to ditch my 10 year old blogging channel. And boy, how time flies. It's been a real solid decade since i started this humble blog. Blogging has never failed to make me ponder over life and definitely is one of the key factor that contributes to making more sense with my language.

I'll probably attempt to revamp this site over the coming weekends. Time to give the blog a new look. It certainty feels like an abandoned site. With dead video link and stuff. Not to mention the odd layout which is eating up the middle content portion.

Ok, a good start for now i hope. Wish me luck to have the discipline to update it this weekends.

1 quick share; i finally convinced myself to spurge on a MacBook Air. I'm typing on it now. Still getting myself familiar with Mac OS.

That's all for now. Will be back (Fingers crossed).