My sister was just checking out all the propaganda songs on the Sing Singapore website. I don't know why she's spending so much time viewing all those music videos.

The original version of "We Will Get There" is actually palatable - it's the dance remix, sung by "Four *talented* young ladies, Amelia Samuel, Hetty Sarlene, Anna Belle Francis and Skye" that I've been blasted with repeatedly that has put me off the song.


Thoughts I had after the NDP system run on Thursday:

My sister's getting of my brother in law, who comes from a rather traditional Chinese family, to eat beef by smuggling it into his food was, in my opinion, rather akin to getting a Muslim to eat pork. I could not research the reasons why some Chinese do not eat beef - it might be sacred or impure, but surely getting someone to eat something his religion forbids is rather malicious? Anyhow, he is a fervent eater of beef nowdays.

My sister also likes to ridicule, even insult, traditional Chinese religions. She belittles their practices, gets my brother in law not to practice them and calls them "Devil worship". Now, if anyone even intimated that the modern major monotheistic religions were ridiculous or untrue, she'd be one of the first to shout, "racist!" (though that term really is not suitable. Perhaps "faithist" or "religionist"?). Even innocuous remarks can be interpreted as racist by here, for example, my Secondary 1 Chinese Teacher's comment that non-Halal meat tastes better than Halal meat because the blood is properly drained. These double standards are really infuriating, as even if one does not believe in a certain religion, one should not insult or demean it.