Dear Molly,

I have found out that a certain righteous Ms Janet Wee is trying to protect the reputation our leaders and has written to the Singapore Police to complain about The Online Citizen for being seditious. I am worried that her email does not get the point across clearly enough. Will you please help her out so that she can lodge a better ( Read more... )

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The Straits Times either enjoys publishing ridiculously silly letters or obsessively edits them into stupidity.

In a letter, "Don't beat Singapore with Hong Kong stick", Ms Priscilla Pey tells us that she has had encountered bad service in Hong Kong and goes on telling us about how ungracious the people there are (which has nothing to do with ( Read more... )

MediaCorp to discontinue TV Mobile from next year

"A statement released Tuesday said MediaCorp has decided to terminate the service upon expiry of its current agreement with SBS Transit on January 1 ( Read more... )

Peepholes in men's toilets too

(Razor TV)

"Peepholes in men's toilets" would be a reasonable headline. But "Peepholes in men's toilets too"? Do I sense the somewhat (or perhaps more than somewhat) sexist assumption that women attract sexual attention (objectification through a gaze) whereas there is nothing about men that attracts scopophilic ( Read more... )

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Molly is now blogging elsewhere.

I would like to apologize the Zaqy Mohamad and the mainstream media for satirizing their nonsensical and mutually contradicting rhetoric about press freedom-half a decade before they spewed them out recently.

In December 2004, Molly wrote in the spirit of parody, "A wide-scale survey conducted on countries around the world reveals that Singapore's ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a storyteller. The moral of his stories were invariably about harmony. One day, someone regurgitated his plots and spun them, perhaps unintentionally, into tales of equality. This enraged the veteran storyteller who threw a hissy fit and yelled, “You are telling my stories wrongly!”

“But these stories are not yours.” one ( Read more... )

Watching that thing shown on every channel is like being forced to watch a recording of yourself being raped -- while being raped another time round.