Thursday, September 13, 2007
Yellow Ribbon project
/5:59 AM
Yellow Ribbon Project
Hello hello! :]
Blogger is a li'l bit effed-up right now, in the sense that I can't put colours or bold words or do anything remotely creative to the html ... but I'm going to blog anyway because I watched "One More Chance" (in Chinese: Three Good Guys) last night and I HAVE to spread the word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_'Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree
It was a brilliant movie, by the way. Another Singaporean production (courtesy of Jack Neo), along the genius lines of "I Not Stupid"... points out all the pulsing issues in society, frustrates you, pisses you off, melts your heart ... sigh.
You'll have to do your own homework on the Yellow Ribbon Project if you want to show support for it (please do!), but the bottom line that I'm just gonna come right out and say is that we have to give ex-offenders that second chance!
They could really want to be good people, useful citizens, support their families - they could really have learnt from their past mistakes. We can't discriminate. We have to be fair. We have to give that that chance.
Watch the movie, you'll understand my sudden compassion for ex-cons.
By the way, Singaporean prison cells looks nothing like the Prison Break ones. :/
Seems like the real world REALLY is nothing like how it is on TV.
OK, going to post this up now and hope that it makes a difference somewhere by making at least one other person understand that ex-offenders are still people.
**
What lah, fifteen minutes later, blogger still doesn't work properly. Still no fancy fonts or bold italics colours etc.. so bear with me for now!
But anyway!
Nothing can stop a woman on a mission eh! :b
I am now going to bore you with my book purchases and my plans for the week.
Yawns may now commence.
:b <-- I saw this in a book about texting. I didn't buy the book, but I basically read the whole thing while in the bookstore. :b Heheh! Thin, big-fonted (children's) books should not be priced at RM20.
Big Bookshop Warehouse is my literary haven. Seriously.
I bought RM 48 worth of books yesterday! :] Five books.
"America" by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for RM 15. Price attached was 15 pounds as in UK POUNDS but the Warehouse is letting it go for RM 15. I've read a couple of chapters, it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!! You'd think Michael Moore is funny - but actually, Michael Moore is on about serious issues, so his productions are less funny. Jon Stewart is a comedian, so this book is REALLY REALLY funny. However, it uses really really bombastic words and demands a really scary breadth of knowledge that, well, makes me feel stupid. :/ But I'm learning a lot through the book! So it's all good eh! I'm only 18 after all. :]
"Mega Trends for Women" because it was selling at freakin' RM 1. I haven't read it yet. It looks pretty boring actually, but supposed to be all empowering for women. And has loads of research. Eye-opening, albeit dated, research. :]
"DK French Phrasebook" for RM 10. I now speak basic basic basic tourist French (when referring to the book). :D :D :D And it's not one of those shitty tourist books where you don't actually learn anything, because this one has pronounciation guides that are sooooo easy to follow, like how we read English words! :] I am one helluva happy consumer.
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. A classic. A must-have. For RM 10. :] So happy. My parents lost their copies already. :/
"Freakonomics" for RM 12. It's bloody, bloody critically acclaimed. And for RM 12! A steal. Really. I was anticipating for the Book Sale Police to slap a pair of handcuffs on muh wrists.
I sigh happily now.
:]
Nothing big on for this week. Nothing big ever on actually hahaha.
But a barbecue on Saturday evening! :D And lunching everyday with Mum and Dad. :]
Very happy. :]
Ta! Have a good week, everyone!! :]
Hello hello! :]
Blogger is a li'l bit effed-up right now, in the sense that I can't put colours or bold words or do anything remotely creative to the html ... but I'm going to blog anyway because I watched "One More Chance" (in Chinese: Three Good Guys) last night and I HAVE to spread the word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_'Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree
It was a brilliant movie, by the way. Another Singaporean production (courtesy of Jack Neo), along the genius lines of "I Not Stupid"... points out all the pulsing issues in society, frustrates you, pisses you off, melts your heart ... sigh.
You'll have to do your own homework on the Yellow Ribbon Project if you want to show support for it (please do!), but the bottom line that I'm just gonna come right out and say is that we have to give ex-offenders that second chance!
They could really want to be good people, useful citizens, support their families - they could really have learnt from their past mistakes. We can't discriminate. We have to be fair. We have to give that that chance.
Watch the movie, you'll understand my sudden compassion for ex-cons.
By the way, Singaporean prison cells looks nothing like the Prison Break ones. :/
Seems like the real world REALLY is nothing like how it is on TV.
OK, going to post this up now and hope that it makes a difference somewhere by making at least one other person understand that ex-offenders are still people.
**
What lah, fifteen minutes later, blogger still doesn't work properly. Still no fancy fonts or bold italics colours etc.. so bear with me for now!
But anyway!
Nothing can stop a woman on a mission eh! :b
I am now going to bore you with my book purchases and my plans for the week.
Yawns may now commence.
:b <-- I saw this in a book about texting. I didn't buy the book, but I basically read the whole thing while in the bookstore. :b Heheh! Thin, big-fonted (children's) books should not be priced at RM20.
Big Bookshop Warehouse is my literary haven. Seriously.
I bought RM 48 worth of books yesterday! :] Five books.
"America" by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for RM 15. Price attached was 15 pounds as in UK POUNDS but the Warehouse is letting it go for RM 15. I've read a couple of chapters, it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!! You'd think Michael Moore is funny - but actually, Michael Moore is on about serious issues, so his productions are less funny. Jon Stewart is a comedian, so this book is REALLY REALLY funny. However, it uses really really bombastic words and demands a really scary breadth of knowledge that, well, makes me feel stupid. :/ But I'm learning a lot through the book! So it's all good eh! I'm only 18 after all. :]
"Mega Trends for Women" because it was selling at freakin' RM 1. I haven't read it yet. It looks pretty boring actually, but supposed to be all empowering for women. And has loads of research. Eye-opening, albeit dated, research. :]
"DK French Phrasebook" for RM 10. I now speak basic basic basic tourist French (when referring to the book). :D :D :D And it's not one of those shitty tourist books where you don't actually learn anything, because this one has pronounciation guides that are sooooo easy to follow, like how we read English words! :] I am one helluva happy consumer.
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. A classic. A must-have. For RM 10. :] So happy. My parents lost their copies already. :/
"Freakonomics" for RM 12. It's bloody, bloody critically acclaimed. And for RM 12! A steal. Really. I was anticipating for the Book Sale Police to slap a pair of handcuffs on muh wrists.
I sigh happily now.
:]
Nothing big on for this week. Nothing big ever on actually hahaha.
But a barbecue on Saturday evening! :D And lunching everyday with Mum and Dad. :]
Very happy. :]
Ta! Have a good week, everyone!! :]
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