Tag Archives: culture

The show that everyone loves.

I wish death upon these people.

For ‘Gossip Girl,’ Modesty Is So Last Season
‘Sleazy’ ad irks Parents Television Council

How low would you go?

How low must one go just to sell deodorant body sprays? The following is one of the latest in the ongoing series of media mindfucks:

Now read the lyrics (excerpted) like you couldn’t see the tasteless filth coming:
It invades a woman’s mind.
Her limbic region goes insane.
She’ll start aching for a man
and acting so profane.
It’s a sexual [...]

On Dina Zaman’s writings

I stumbled upon Ms Dina Zaman’s writings by accident.
I was actually Googling for “berpijak di bumi nyata” to see if that phrase would be a good basis for my next poem (it turned out to be quite cliched). In the process, I came across an interesting opinion on free condoms on Encik Roime’s blog, and [...]

How innocent is our intelligentsia?

From “Responsibility and War Guilt: A Culture-Setting Intelligentsia”, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Gabriel Matthew Schivone:
What about degrees of responsibility and shared burdens of guilt on an individual level? What can we learn about how one views oneself often in positions of power or authority?
You almost never find anyone, whether it’s in a weapons plant, or [...]

Malay/Muslim French kissing?

Watch:

Read:

Kissing scene now on YouTube (Excerpt from The Malay Mail)
Local Actress French Kiss?

First and foremost, the most important question: why should I care?
I’ll answer it right now: because it raises more important and interesting questions:

If she really turns out to be Deanna Yusoff i.e. if she were Malay and Muslim, how should Malays/Muslims view it [...]

The critic’s dilemma

My writings against (the culture of) lewdness thus far have made me thought and reflect a great deal. The war I am waging against the proliferation of lewdness and the tolerant attitude towards it seems endless. As I continue to discover new materials that prove the depravity of this culture, it worries me to know [...]

Lagi tentang Berita Harian

Baru saja empat hari yang lalu Berita Harian Singapura menerbitkan rencana mengenai kenaikan kadar kelahiran anak luar nikah di kalangan orang Melayu, hari ini terbit pula laporan istimewa (’feature’) mengenai penyanyi hip hop dan R&B, Rihanna.

Baca:

“Melayu lahir anak luar nikah bertambah” (BH 12 Julai 2007, hal. 1)
“Strategi membendung perilaku remaja Melayu” (Lidah pengarang BH [...]

Tabloid Berita Harian?

Adakah masih layak dipanggil “akhbar”, jika berita yang dipampangkan besar-besar di muka depannya ialah tentang kematian pemain gusti WWE, Chris Benoit? Berita itu telah mengisi hampir separuh ruang berita halaman depan Berita Harian Singapura semalam (27 Jun 2007).
Tiadakah berita di dunia ini yang lebih mustahak, lebih bermakna dan lebih patut untuk dipaparkan di muka [...]

Bumfights: A Video Too Far

A documentary about how homeless people are being exploited to fight or perform ridiculous stunts for money and beer. One of the stunts is plucking one’s own teeth—I cannot even begin to imagine that.
But wait—can you even start to fathom that some people are profiteering from this arrangement?
Why does this happen? Think Jackass. [...]

In rejection of lewdness

Every afternoon, there is a man in the street who sells candies, and good candies they are, which attract many customers. But you also know that when night falls, he sells another type of ‘candy’, which attracts a group of customers as well—he is a drug trafficker.
Question: If you had a child, would you [...]