Oh, check this out! I saw that here.
I just have to join in! Talk about being an unthinking lemming! Bah, who cares!
Xiaxue laments that no one’s defending her. This from a person who regularly snips comments from her blog because she doesn’t agree with them. That’s all well and good, but to call for sympathy and then disable comments is like… I don’t know. Stupid? Silly? Eh, how are people supposed to show support if you don’t even allow damn comments?!
Someone wake me up, please.
It’s also great when you have someone conflating her own struggles against the ‘malaysian horde’ with ‘defending singaporean pride’. I thought the stupidity of a single person shouldn’t be imputed to the rest of the population, but since she insists on calling for a gang response from the trenches, she’s in effect saying that all singaporeans share the same attitude with hers: boorish, boring, self-obsessed and superficial.
I protest! My Singaporean friends are nothing like that! How dare she!
That aside, it should be easy for us to place tongue firmly in cheek when approaching the fairly pink phenomenon that is Xiaxue. This call for unity is an example of a kind of entrenched siege mentality that is vaguely familiar in some parts of the population in Singapore, and I know this because I’ve had first-hand experience of it.
But we shouldn’t tarnish all Singaporeans for her one little outburst (and continued protests). I do agree with ShaolinTiger that the food in Singapore sucks vicious ass; everything’s too damn sweet, with too much soya sauce and tastes like a pale immitation of food you can get just 10 klicks north of their border — my personal opinion, of course.
But the people, in general, are great; very urbane, very civilized, a few are very fun-loving, are notoriously polite when in their own country, are very clean and you’ve got to admire their self-sufficiency. Some are not as self-sufficient as Malaysians, but there you have it.
But back to that pink monstrosity. I’m willing to bet this is only the first of several rants against malaysians and the like. What say you?
Ass kissers rarely come to the defence of something like this. Or maybe the ass kissers are smarter than they look not to get involved with something so…tricky a situation such as this.
Comment by Edrei — Saturday, 3 September 2005 @ 6:52 pm
I think her ass-kissers are from the lunatic fringe anyways heh heh..
Who could love that much pink?!
Comment by xpyre — Saturday, 3 September 2005 @ 6:57 pm
does d term.. Chow Ah Lian come 2 mind?? HAhA!
Comment by Edison — Saturday, 3 September 2005 @ 7:41 pm
Frankly, as an online ambassador of Singapore, I had expected more diplomacy and tact from her in handling the matter - during the ‘attacks’ and after.
I was one of the few M’sians who mentioned that some of her points were valid, just her method of delivery leaves much to be desire.
I was even more disappointed upon reading her most recent entry. It has been almost more than two weeks now. Give it a rest. If she is really confident and sure about her reasons, why bother about what others say? Just take it with a pinch of salt and walk away. THAT is called being an adult.
Besides, why rely on other people to fight your battles for you? You should be strong and independent enough to do that yourself.
Comment by Mei — Saturday, 3 September 2005 @ 7:47 pm
This is a very good reminder to us not to rant, blame, complain and bitch like nobody business.
In the end of the day, it will only expose how immature someone is.
Worse, it might even go as far as tarnish the whole country image, just because of one particular irrresponsible blogger?
What you think?
Comment by SK — Sunday, 4 September 2005 @ 1:21 am
mei> That’s exactly what some of my singaporean friends say, actually. Some don’t even want Xiaxue to be associated with ‘Singapore’ per se because she can, admittedly, come across as crass and worse, ill-bred to conservative-minded people. I don’t want to speculate how far her standing in Singapore’s media scene is as a result of some recent championing of openness undertaken by the state — it may be reading too much into things.
It does however mean, in the larger picture, that the impression she paints of Singaporeans isn’t good.
I admit though, I was being pretty harsh, if not facetious in my post. Some things are inexcusable, and it appears that the longer she carries on, the more heated the recriminations will become.
SK> Yah, it’s pretty unfortunate. There are many Singaporean bloggers out there who are very colourful (in a good way) and there are very accomplished bloggers from SG that rarely get the same kind of attention that Xiaxue does — and worse, it appears that quite a number of people buy into her version of kitsch. I just hope bloggers from other countries see beyond her.
Just like the Furong JieJie disaster, it seems more and more as if the focus of media attention on Chinese bloggers has been on one delusional woman, when there are many others that warrant serious attention, and even support.
Comment by xpyre — Sunday, 4 September 2005 @ 4:02 am
Edison> LOL.. I’m not saying anymore. :p
Comment by xpyre — Sunday, 4 September 2005 @ 4:02 am