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A Wedding in Manila

Quick one before I jump into a plane – I was just at a small wedding in Manila. One of my oldest friends in the world got hitched to a lovely Pinoy girl here, and will soon whisk her away to Australia and all that. Great, very happy for the couple; very pleased to see [...]
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And The Living is Easy

Update: On a related note, I wrote Preparations for a Chinese Wedding five years ago. Weddings, funerals and fortune tellers depress me. Weddings, I’ve been known to say, make me linger too long on the idea of happiness. Not that it’s ever been bleak on the romantic front. The wedding type of happy simply seems [...]
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Possibly the Most Difficult Post I Have Ever Written

With the AWARE EOGM (that’s too many acronyms, even for Singapore — the Association of Women for Action and Research’s Extraordinary General Meeting) a few days away, let me use this platform to share my experience as a young Singaporean woman who 1. is actively Christian 2. attended Christian schools 3. is more than ‘a [...]
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Stop the AWARE Hijacking

Dear Popagandhi.com readers, you have all been good to me over the years. You already know my stand on certain things, namely feminism, sexuality, and Being Singaporean. Despite all that, I never cared much for activism either. I’d dipped my toes into those murky waters very briefly in my younger days, and never cared to [...]
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Singaporeans for Procreating on Saturdays

Dear NMP Dr Loo Choon Yong, You got it all wrong. In suggesting that our government introduce an extra day of work because we were evidently not making babies, despite the luxury of two whole days — TWO! Not one! Or half day! — to indulge in these baby-making duties, you forget one important thing. [...]
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