By the way. Have i told you to read Mr Tan's travel blog? Really quite insightful you know. Only if he could update more regularly on his travel blog. Instead of his private one...

Anyway, Claudia writes good GP essay. Actually i've only managed to read a few of her GP introductions cos they are claimed to be so good, you can read it by itself! Ok gardenia motto. No no seriously, her GP always tops my class. And its not an easy feat since im in that class (ok jokin). So ya. Her style of writing is really quite cool and funny and damn HER style of talking. like typical claudia wong giving lecture kind of thing. But anyway just read her blog. I dont know why im posting this now althought i have read this post so long ago.

I happen to want to post it here cos i just read through Mr MARCUS TAN's ppt on discrimination, censorship and some other teachers ppt on gender. Mr Tan gives quite some scope to his ppt i would say. More than the other random tchers whom i randomly chose to dl to read. Mr tan's ppt are quite more informed. OF COS RIGHT MR TAN LEH. NOW IN DUBLIN playing brokeback mountain with his russian roomies leh. GO read his travel blog and find out what they do in the "testerone-filled halls" WAHAHAHAHA.

OK back to claudia wong. Here's her uneditted version of "the case for the XX chromosome"
Enjoy.





On the first day of the prelims, which was GP, i wrote the question on the importance placed on equality of the sexes. i guess my inherent feminist instincts took over my head, i pushed for equality too much and i just wrote the essay without giving much voice to my opponent (i.e. no balance) but who cares, what i think is most important. haha. coming to think of it, being a girl and able to play football as i like is very much of a privelege, or in extreme terms, a female emancipation. yes i still hate the fact when sometimes guys make stupid comments about girls playing football, or how some guys steal the street soccer court from us as if it belonged to them.
i admire guy soccer coaches who believe in letting girls take up the sport, and soccer guys who dont mind us playing on the same pitch as them. the best respect guys ever paid to me personally was last yr during our first match, soccer guys took our match very seriously, cheered on for us, bet on the score. and voted me woman of the match. they even put their dollar to their word, and bought me 2 cans of 100+ which cost like 2 bucks per can in that horrible money-extorting place. but on a serious note, in other less developed countries, females cant even speak when not spoken to, are treated as objects and what have you. just a few stats here;

-females make up just over 6% of all company directors in singapore
-worldwide, women make up more than half the population, but only 12.7% of all parliamentary seats, they work 2/3 the world's working hours, produce half the world's food, yet earn only 16% of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's property
-in russia, >12000 women are killed each year as a result of domestic violence, and 3 million women are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend each year.

anyhow, i think me staying at home watching oprah on tv, seeing her start up her Oprah Academy of leadership for Girls, to attempt to change the trajectory of disadvantaged girls from poor homes, and seeing 2 Asian girls be the first female team to win Amazing race Asia (note: asian chicks rock) and receiving the navy invitation propelled me to write that question. i admire girls who push themselves to challenge their physical limits (eg mel who's the fourth fastest runner in class, which means only 3 guys beat her, and my rj friend's friend who can do 20 pull-ups and is training for standard chartered marathon soon) i know of guys who dont like these kinda girls, and who promise that they'll never date girls who play football and stuff. that is discrimination! the same as being homophobia, or racist. i watched ' i now pronounce you chuck and larry' the other day, and after mich's sermon on homosexuals last week, i think my perception of them has changed. they, like normal people, have feelings too, and the same way remarks are made against females, or to particular races, its just as hurtful.

the other day at tuition my econs tutor was teaching on price discrimination, and she posed an interesting question. lets say, on ladies' night, whereby females get to go in for free, do those butches get the same privelege too? yes, by nature they're female, but they're going in to check out the chicks too right? how about transexuals? or do clubs admit people on the way they look? like if you're female but dressed as a guy you pay the guys price too. also, if a female wants to go for a guy haircut, does she pay the guy's rate or the female one? for econs knowledge this is third degree price discrimination. haha. my econs tutor, in the future, wants to set up a club whereby only females can enter, enjoy female company, and get entertained by males. apparently it is commonplace in Japan, but not a single one of this type has opened in singapore yet. dont get her wrong, being entertained by guys in her meaning is she'll employ refined men to engage women in intellectual and insightful conversations, instead of ordinary guys in other clubs who try their lousy pick-up lines by saying 'can i put my glass here?' hahaha.

when i grow up and if i make alot of money, the first cause i would donate to is that of helping prostitutes. especially young girls forced into it. it indeed is a horrible thing, and i guess the wounds inflicted would never heal in a lifetime. next on my list would be child labourers. while trying to be someone great in the future, i think what i'll settle for now is to go out and play some football with my siblings, and be grateful for the feminism movements in the past which have allowed me to do so. (:





So guys, esp thoes who play soccer. Next time u see the Miss GP pro walkin to the field or the soccer court... u had better make way for her and clear the D-area. if not she'll write dedicate another blog entry to NIAO'in every soccer-playing guy in TJ. oh my. what a nightmare that would be. probably would go on to win some commonwealth essay competition in dublin whr Marcus Tan is the chief invigilator.

OK SCREW THE NONSENSE. 30 DAYS BOY! 30 days darren yuen. like what jiajie tcher kwek said. 30 days for 80 yrs of good life. COME ON DARREN! go screw everyone's asses on the release of A lvl results with your 4A's! COME ON DARREN! 4A's is ur TARGET!