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\o\ Just in case I get thrown into a cell or something
Heading down to a "political" "protest" in hope of raising awareness of gay rights existence later today. Um, if anyone knows my country, let's just say that even though there are going to be like a few thousand of us (OR MAYBE ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE A FEW THOUSAND OF US), I'm going to be wearing comfortable shoes and positioning myself in a way that makes running like mad an acceptable mode of retreat should we come to be crushed by --
Okay, okay, maybe not. Context time! Pink Dot is a Singaporean effort to just get together all the LGBT and LGBT-supportive people in this country, put them in a square, and take a photo. No politics, no protest, no action, just reaction: we love each other, and we just want to be acknowledge as human.
Though, um, part of our constitution alleges that groups of MORE THAN ONE that gather for any (pseudo)political purpose must first register their purpose with the government before gathering, otherwise that gathering OF ONE OR MORE PEOPLE is considered illegal, so PUT ON YOUR BOOTS, BABIES.
So, in celebration, memetime!
Ask me anything. 8D About where I'm from, about what I like IRL or in fandom; ask me about what I write, or just any silly thing that crosses your mind. \o\ The unknown and fear of it is what drives so much of the pain that happens in our everyday lives: so go on. Ask a question. 8D
Okay, okay, maybe not. Context time! Pink Dot is a Singaporean effort to just get together all the LGBT and LGBT-supportive people in this country, put them in a square, and take a photo. No politics, no protest, no action, just reaction: we love each other, and we just want to be acknowledge as human.
Though, um, part of our constitution alleges that groups of MORE THAN ONE that gather for any (pseudo)political purpose must first register their purpose with the government before gathering, otherwise that gathering OF ONE OR MORE PEOPLE is considered illegal, so PUT ON YOUR BOOTS, BABIES.
So, in celebration, memetime!
Ask me anything. 8D About where I'm from, about what I like IRL or in fandom; ask me about what I write, or just any silly thing that crosses your mind. \o\ The unknown and fear of it is what drives so much of the pain that happens in our everyday lives: so go on. Ask a question. 8D
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IF YOU HAD A CHOICE: AISHWARYA RAI, FREIDA PINTO, OR ANGELINA JOLIE? (WHY YES THIS IS RELEVANT TO THE REST OF THIS COMMENT.)
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HAHA IT IS MOST UNFORTUNATE THAT I HAVE NOT WATCHED SLUMDOG, but with some minor Googling. AUGH HARD CHOICES. I. UH. Everyone has their good points asljf THIS IS LIKE PARIS AND THE GOLDEN APPLE OH SHIT.
Aishwarya? :D? :D???????
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um.
Happy question! What are you looking forward to most about university?
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:O!! YOU SHOULD WATCH THAT! i do have a couple of minor issues with it (basically boils down to MOAR LATIKA), but overall it is a GORGEOUSLY HUMAN STORY. \o/
FOR YOU THEN: AISHWARYA!
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AUGH DIFFICULT QUESTION *g* *g* There are just so many things about university that I'm looking forward to, but in a nutshell, I guess it'd be getting to try and test my world view? \o AS OBLIQUELY BIZARRE AS THAT SOUNDS --
I mean, I've practically grown up on the internet, right? I've got so many friends who are not from where I'm from and who've been instrumental in making me a better person and, I hope, a better friend. I've got Americans (*g*) and Canadians and Australians and all sorts, and at the end of the day it all adds up, especially with the youthful nature of my country and how we're still trying to figure out who were are, into a very mixed and open way of looking at the world.
These last few months I've been walking through my country and knowing precisely how much I love it, how much I want to give back to it, and how much things are good here, for me as a Singaporean, even if they don't fit in with the liberalities that I've come to expect and want as learned via the feeding tube of the intarwebs. But I don't have a frame of reference yet, you know? I love travel, I love the world, I love and deeply desire going forward to be part of a community somewhere that isn't my home, so that I can find out how deeply that plain human instinct to live and love runs, and then also to see the parts of another country that aren't my own - and to realise why they aren't my own.
I think my parents are very afraid that I'm obsessed with American culture or that I'd fall in love with New York and want to stay there - and I can see why, I mean, my generation, we're so Americanised, in a way. But I'm more than ready and more than excited to go out there to university, to live in this behemoth nation that influences so much of my own, to get to know the things and idiosyncracies about it that I may or may not like, and then to come home again. I think -- I think I'll love being over there, the same way I'll love being anywhere. And the best part is, I know that being there will help cement who I am, show me a new way of illuminating my old ways. Sorta. Kinda. *g* You're only really aware of who you are when you're faced with a boatload of everything that you are not.
UHHHHH, LONG COMMENT IS LONG, BUT I AM ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING ACADEMICALLY BEATEN UP, because ever since I left school my brain has been rotting and I am now HORRIBLY DYSLEXIC.
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(ONE DAY SOON I WILL POST THE BASE PICTURES AND WATCH THE INTERNET SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST.)
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Go Pink Dot, Go!
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