recap of the week's festivities
+ citylink mall has been so nice and quiet for the last week cos everyone's avoiding it during the imf/world bank meet that i was able to comfortably buy a book (SQ21) and a cd (the new Roots) without having to jostle past a single person
- the singapore government has shown the world how proud it is of its authoritarianism
+/- irony of ironies: even a war-mongering right-wing conservative sexist poor-bashing anti-democratic former White House big-wig can call the singapore government "authoritarian" with a straight face
- the imf/world bank has exposed their backsides once again by simultaneously telling the world that they are committed to good governance and then revealing that the next overseas meet will be in turkey, which i would hardly call a good government. i think it's a ploy - hold the overseas meet in, say, asia or the middle east in order to maintain a facade of engaging the global South, but conveniently hold it in a Southern country that's totally repressive so that the troublemakers (i.e. the people on the other side of the class line and willing to fight) are kept at bay. i dare you to hold your next meeting in india, fuckwads. you'd be shitting bricks and ducking molotov cocktails faster than you can say 'capitalism'.
- the singapore media has either distorted, marginalized or simply not reported on incidents of repression of resistance to the imf/world bank by singaporeans in singapore
- so has the international media. apparently it's outrageous that a very small group of pre-approved protestors (who, in my humble opinion, are mostly NGO hacks unworthy of being called activists) were prevented from entering the country, but it's not even worth a sidebar report that 3 singaporeans who simply wanted to hand out leaflets at city hall mrt (which, by the way, is not illegal, contrary to what the pigs might tell you) were arrested before they could even utter the words "want one?".
- i dunno about those PETA activists, man. i mean, i think it sucks that they got deported without even having done anything against the law yet and all (woh, that is sooo right out of the movie 'minority report'). but the fact that their (symbolic) animal rights protests generally feature white, usually blonde, women in bikinis or less alluding to themselves as chicks is just so damn sexist. hey dudes, could you at least try and get your message across without perpetuating the objectification of women, please?
And the biggest and most important minus of this week: i think all the other women in my bellydance class hate me. every lesson the teacher calls me forward to show everyone else how it's done. and i'm not even good at it. but i can't help it if ma punjabi flava hips have had years of wedding dance practice for them belly/hip moves (it's kinda cool the similarities between dance styles). yeah, i sure have got my priorities straight, eh?
- the singapore government has shown the world how proud it is of its authoritarianism
+/- irony of ironies: even a war-mongering right-wing conservative sexist poor-bashing anti-democratic former White House big-wig can call the singapore government "authoritarian" with a straight face
- the imf/world bank has exposed their backsides once again by simultaneously telling the world that they are committed to good governance and then revealing that the next overseas meet will be in turkey, which i would hardly call a good government. i think it's a ploy - hold the overseas meet in, say, asia or the middle east in order to maintain a facade of engaging the global South, but conveniently hold it in a Southern country that's totally repressive so that the troublemakers (i.e. the people on the other side of the class line and willing to fight) are kept at bay. i dare you to hold your next meeting in india, fuckwads. you'd be shitting bricks and ducking molotov cocktails faster than you can say 'capitalism'.
- the singapore media has either distorted, marginalized or simply not reported on incidents of repression of resistance to the imf/world bank by singaporeans in singapore
- so has the international media. apparently it's outrageous that a very small group of pre-approved protestors (who, in my humble opinion, are mostly NGO hacks unworthy of being called activists) were prevented from entering the country, but it's not even worth a sidebar report that 3 singaporeans who simply wanted to hand out leaflets at city hall mrt (which, by the way, is not illegal, contrary to what the pigs might tell you) were arrested before they could even utter the words "want one?".
- i dunno about those PETA activists, man. i mean, i think it sucks that they got deported without even having done anything against the law yet and all (woh, that is sooo right out of the movie 'minority report'). but the fact that their (symbolic) animal rights protests generally feature white, usually blonde, women in bikinis or less alluding to themselves as chicks is just so damn sexist. hey dudes, could you at least try and get your message across without perpetuating the objectification of women, please?
And the biggest and most important minus of this week: i think all the other women in my bellydance class hate me. every lesson the teacher calls me forward to show everyone else how it's done. and i'm not even good at it. but i can't help it if ma punjabi flava hips have had years of wedding dance practice for them belly/hip moves (it's kinda cool the similarities between dance styles). yeah, i sure have got my priorities straight, eh?
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