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I’ve just got to blog about this today. It’s long, but abit of drama got lah. It began at 9.00 am, just barely after I checked in. I signed the register, part of the childish imperative of the higher-ups no doubt for keeping track of us worker bees. Anyway, not a minute after I settle down in my cubicle than I get the call: our morning appointment had arrived.

I got my boss (good boss, the friend boss) with whom I had worked a case. The details of the case itself must remain private for non-disclosure reasons, of course, but it’s nothing dramatic lah nothing hush-hush and definitely no national secret (you’d have gotten the point by now). The hush-hush bit about the case was the fact that we suspected foul play.
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I got this article from Salon.com off Mrs. Bakar’s post here. It really is a picture of misery being shovelled promise after promise only to be disappointed. I’ve always wondered what getting a rejection slip felt like, but never had the requisite wherewithal (some say “courage”) to actually get down to arranging stuff so I can then send messy jumbles of words off to publishers.

I had a group of friends, myself included, who wanted to get something ‘out there’ and published because we all had aspirations. One wanted to make lots of money (”I will be the next Tom fucking Clancy lah! I’ll dream up missiles that fly like seagulls!”). Another was more immersed in genre fiction, coming up with short stories of that ‘romantic fantasy’ strain. What to do, she was one girl, we were three guys, so we were always putting off reading her stuff.

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Xiaxue’s not apologetic, and not going down without a fight. But that’s not what caught me off guard. What caught me off guard was learning that Peter Tan has written to Xiaxue’s endorsers complaining about, among other things I gather, her insensitivity to disabled people, giving wrong impressions, influencing impressionable kids, etc. Her most recent blog entry can be found here. Shoalin Tiger’s also got a post up about the whole thing. An excerpt:-

It should be silenced, she shouldn’t be moulding the minds of the next generation, she’s turning them to pulp.

She should not be endorsed, nor respected, go ahead and read her blog if you enjoy it, that’s your prerogative, just don’t try and tell other people what she says is right, because it’s clearly not. I’m not telling you not to read her blog, I’m not saying her blog is bad, I’m just saying she’s a stupid ignorant, bimbotic, stumpy limbed naive bucket of shit. That’s all.

Yeah she annoys me, I might write to her other sponsors and voice my opinion, according to the oh great Xia Xue, that’s what life is all about right? Voicing your opinion, because it’s ALWAYS right, and not giving a shit about the repercussion or anyone elses rights/feelings.

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