Pictures Without Permission

petrified

2010-06-20T22:23:00.001+08:00

this poor puffer didn't know what else to do when the tide went down... it looks sad and comical at the same time.

Welcome to Hougang Pt 6

2010-04-16T21:43:00.009+08:00

♪ How much is that do-ggie by the mailbox? ♫

♪ The one with the sto-ny eyed gaze? ♫

Seriously, the things that people buy (and subsequently throw away) in Hougang.

I don't understand this on so many levels:

1. People mount the heads of prey, like antelopes, etc right? Not the heads of predators?

2. And not fake heads, right...?

You don't know how tempted I was to salvage this and put it on our living room (bed room?) wall. But was veto-ed by the Long Suffering Life Partner (LSLP).

Welcome to Hougang Pt 5

2010-04-11T14:13:00.004+08:00

And they say Singaporeans lack initiative!

Clearly, they forget that

THIS!

IS!

HOUGAAAAAAAANG!!!

Really, the only not-cool thing about this is that I would bet on it being human pee instead.

hm, never knew she had a shirt

2010-04-11T13:50:00.002+08:00

grace fu
(The graceful... The graceful)

I Went To The Egyptian Exhibition At The National Museum...

2010-04-06T23:55:00.002+08:00

... And All I Got Was A Photo Of A Snake Wearing A Hat.

So Richard Scarry!!!

ok, i "won't"

2010-01-23T23:05:00.002+08:00

Found in a toilet in (where else?) Hougang.

The best parts are:
1. Using hearts as bullets, alongside words like "toilet paper", "menstruate", and "shit".
2. Spelling out "heart", inside an actual heart.
3. The super mario flower in the bottom left.

"The Electric Man"... uh

2009-12-06T23:36:00.002+08:00

Seriously, since when did the Singapore Science Centre get to be so homoerotic?

The exhibit told me to press a green button so that I would send some kind of spark through the... gas?... in the... tube?... so that the... electricity?... would come out (???).

Too bad the exhibit forgot to tell me to ACTIVELY IGNORE the little penis-man that was strapped to the inside with GOLD CHAINS.

I'm not dirty minded in the least.

2009-09-13T11:04:00.003+08:00

So not cool.

2009-05-28T22:58:00.002+08:00

Double rainbow from the BKE

2009-03-29T18:38:00.002+08:00

I thought this was so poignant. I can't remember the last time I saw a rainbow, and I've never seen two at once before. Probably if I had superhuman eyesight I would've been able to see a feinter third rainbow and an even feinter fourth rainbow and so on until infinity...

Schindler's lift

2009-03-29T18:32:00.003+08:00

I half expected for the lift doors to jam shut and for poison gas to start pouring in from the vents.

MEESA JAR-JAR BINKS!!!

2009-03-15T16:35:00.004+08:00

PISSA!

HEALTH!!

CEA-TRE!!!

You laugh, you laugh... but actually, it's a cross between a health cen-tre and a movie thea-tre.

... That's run by italians who like to "peeeeesssss-a you awwwwfffff-a!"

Snap!!!

Haw Par Villa - Ten Courts of Hell

2009-02-14T15:08:00.053+08:00

Welcome to the 2nd installment of Haw Par Villa (tagline: "Not the most subtle place in the world.")

"Aw Boon Har's first tiger car - two red bulbs were placed in the tiger's eye sockets and the sound the horn produced was a tiger's roar"

On to what most people go there for - the Ten Courts of Hell!

anthropomorphised livestock help ease your transition into hell

The park operators are well aware of this, which is why it costs $1 for entry. But even before you enter the actual attraction it's already paid for itself:

pet shop anarchy

(thought bubble: "at least don't need to do NS")

"oh yeah you're really hitting the spot!"

First Court of Hell:

Essentially, you are sorted into EM1, EM2, or EM3.

Second Court of Hell:

If you've ever played mahjong for money:

"SHIVER ME NIPPLES!"

And for all the downtrodden who were forced into prostitution due to circumstances beyond their control...

"a pool of BLOOD? shit!"

... well, life after death will continue to suck.

Third Court of Hell:

Cynical bloggers with political agendas get their comeuppance:

"dude, that's not meant to be pulled!!!!"

As do stubborn couples who refuse to have their traditional wedding ceremony:

"why do you have to be a, heart-brea-ker"

I think this would be such a great photograph to use in Chinese Oral exams. You know the part where you have to describe the picture in a language that completely eludes you? Yah.

Fourth Court of Hell:

IRAS would love to do this to you:

"so you see, the technique is all in the wrist... yes, yes, that's right, i think you've finally got it..."

And if you ever thought of putting your parents in a nursing home (in Johore)...

"grinding people with a large stone is actually very fun, it's just the cleaning up that's a bitch!"

Fifth Court of Hell:

Is dedicated to all credit card companies and the people who work for them.

"don't fuck with me, i have a GIANT COTTON BUD"

Sixth Court of Hell:

All of my favourite hobbies are listed here!!!

"... and THAT's for not wearing your name tag to school, be-yotch!"

"Try surfing porn now, sucker!!!"

At this part I started losing faith in the judicial system of the Chinese Afterlife, because - come on - kidnapping someone is WAY WORSE than cursing their mother.

takeaway point: if you ever have too many knives hanging around your house, you can always consider making a hill of them or a tree of them.

Seventh Court of Hell:

Rumour mongers
Sowing discord among family members
--> Tongue pulled out

Rapists
Driving someone to their death
--> Thrown into wok of boiling oil

Mainly Little Nonya stuff.

Eighth Court of Hell:

This is where the King of Hell realised the number of punishments he'd dreamt up far exceeded the actual number of different crimes, so he started repeating.

"wait, didn't i get punished for the whole filial piety and cheating thing already?"

Ninth Court of Hell:

More repeats, and also a "catch all" clause to make sure necrophiliacs don't get off scot free.

ew.

Tenth Court of Hell:

This is the part where they decide what you get reincarnated into.

If you're pretty ok you get to be a domestic house pet.
If you're not, you get to be a civil servant in your next life.

And then this woman feeds you something which makes you forget every damn thing you ever knew (including A-level Bio)...

"pure, natural spring water from the swiss alps"

... So that you're ready to START ALL OVER AGAIN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

if you're really lucky you get to become a fossil.

Haw Par Villa - the Absurdist's choice

2009-02-03T23:31:00.031+08:00

I realise I never really understood the meaning of "WTF?!?!" until I went to Haw Par Villa.

I mean, I thought I did...

... But really, I didn't.

Like, seriously.

"hug meeeee!!!"

Ok, first of all, what's up with all the chimerical imaginings?

"hallo? ah, xiao jie ah? ... hallo..?"

Maybe their sculptor sniffed one Tiger Balm too many.

"take me home!!! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..."

Well, I suppose mermaids are more typical.

(thought bubble:) god-DAMN we be some sexay bitches!

"baby, make love to me like it was the first time."

And then there are the moralistic tableaus with the tenuous grips on logic.

"OH MY SON!!! YOU HAVE BEEN SQUASHED FLAT LIKE A PANCAKE BY THE AH MAT DRIVING THE CAR!!!"

moral:
GAMBLING IS BAD!

"HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD HELP US WE ARE BEING RANDOMLY ATTACKED BY A PACK OF... of... um... sheep? uh... wait... maybe they're wolves... er... hmm. well isn't that interesting. ok, now we're confused."

moral:

LOYALTY IS GOOD!

(and by the way, they're wolves.)

"SO LONG SUCKERS!!! bet you're regretting not taking those reptile-balancing classes right about now! yahahahahaa"

moral:
BE KIND TO ANIMALS!

Okay lah, some do make sense.

Especially "in light of the current financial crisis" <-- (everyone likes saying this phrase.)

As my friend noted, Haw Par Villa also espouses the values underlying the Scandinavian welfare system:

And something for all you PSC scholars in the audience:

(I just have no idea why the captionist is so obsessed with the idea of running a grocery business.)

Alright, next post - the Ten Courts of Hell! a.k.a "I am so screwed."

Ever felt that your life lacked a certain...

2009-01-04T15:06:00.004+08:00

... sense of Porpoise?

Welcome to Hougang Pt 4

2008-12-26T12:22:00.002+08:00

Looks like Resident Evil right?

We stepped out of our flat at 7.30pm to realise that half of our block was unlit (by that I mean the half that we stay in of course). No corridor lights, no void deck lights, no stair case lights.

I'm not sure if it's just the timing that was screwed up, or it's just some fuse that blew (maybe the fuse was very excited for christmas).

Anyway, the "blackout" allowed us to experience the one-of-a-kind pleasure of navigating down 4 flights of stairs in a pitch-black stairwell aided only by handphone light. Perhaps the only other people in Singapore who have experienced this are those who have gone ghost hunting at, I dunno, Old Changi Hospital (which is gonna be turned into a spa resort by the way!).

I'm not so brave/foolhardy so maybe I should consider myself lucky.

Welcome to Hougang Pt 3

2008-11-17T00:33:00.003+08:00

Our downstairs neighbours have 10 chickens, 2 rabbits, and maybe 3 cats.

So cock!!! (get it? hurhurhur)

I think they're pretty cute, actually. But then again, I haven't moved in and got woken up at the crack of dawn everyday yet.

I met this guy who used to be from NEA and he told me that the maximum number of chickens allowed per household is 10. (I think the rule applies to live chickens only...) I don't know where that number came from but hey, looks like our neighbours have their shit together!

In other news, I got a new phone with a better camera. The bad thing is that it's also a pervert-proof camera, i.e. cannot turn off the photo-taking sound. This really sucks.

Why I love the Bird Park

2008-09-04T00:09:00.003+08:00

"Because there got a lot of birds"

I took other photos too, but seem to have lost them. Other favourite places include:

The Zoo ("because Ah Meng is buried there! =)" <-- I think this one was sarcastic.)
Wild Wild Wet ("because I can play the water there" <-- not kidding, if I remember right)

Physical Planning...

2008-09-03T22:51:00.001+08:00

... it's a real torture test alright!!!

Just kidding. PLEASEDON'TFIREMEILOVEYOU!!!

Welcome to Hougang Pt 2

2008-08-17T23:56:00.004+08:00

So Kill Bill right?

I feel bad that one of my future neighbours is in financial trouble.

When we came back a few days later, the paint had been dutifully scraped off!

Welcome to Hougang

2008-07-12T23:52:00.002+08:00

HDB has really weird taste in public art.

I still have no idea what this is all about, but it makes me love Hougang even more.

I didn't even notice the kid was using the double-disembodied foot as a racing platform for his toy car until after I took the photo.

The congrats

2008-07-11T02:20:00.003+08:00

In case you've ever wondered what happens after your ROM...

Now you know!

I feel genuinely touched, but at the same time, my spine is inexplicably all tingly and creepy-like.

I wonder whether Low Thia Kiang will also congratulate us on, say, the birth of our first child? (Would Yeo Guat Kwang..?)

What a ROMp!

2008-05-10T20:03:00.005+08:00

Well, so, the good news is I managed to trick someone into marrying me :)

The bad news is we didn't manage to take a photo with the above shrubs, which seem to have disappeared since the last time we visited ROM a few years back.

Did you know that before the actual day itself, you have to trudge down to ROM at 8.30 in the morning so that they can verify your documents and you can swear that you're not already married?

The inside is like a polyclinic and, while you wait for your number to appear on the screen, you sit and watch this HUGE plasma TV which airs this ROM promo vid, teaching you everything you need to know about being a well-behaved married couple. Which means handling in-laws, handling finances, and of course, handling each other...

... PHYSICALLY!

I swear to god, I never thought that the Singapore Government would ever, ask me to locate anybody's "sensitive areas".

(And I don't even believe in god...!)

Maybe I should call MDA on them. For glorifying heterosexuality, of course. How dare they portray the heterosexual identity in such a positive light! It gives the absolute wrong impression that men and women can live together happily and even (GASP!) raise kids!!!

The truth is out there

2008-04-23T22:45:00.009+08:00

My loved ones always threaten to leave me whenever I start singing "(Mas) Selamat... Hari Raya... duhduhduduhduhduhduduhduhhhhh" (I have NO idea what the rest of the lyrics are).

Anyway, maybe I'm not being an obedient cibil serpant, but I can't help feeling that there's something awfully odd about the whole Mas Selamat saga?

It could be that the gahmen is actually telling the truth, and the truth is just...
well...
kind of pathetic.

...

OR! Much more fun, it could be that the gahmen is LYING, and everyone who loves conspiracy theories can have their day in the sun. I am so proud of my future MP Low Thia Kiang:

LTK: Is the DPM aware that there is speculation that Mas Selamat died inside WRDC?

Wong Kan Seng: May I ask Mr Low whether he believes that indeed Mas Selamat has died?

LTK: No, I don't.

WKS: I do not know why he wants to raise it here. I see no point in perpetuating a ground speculation in this House and giving credence to it.

(This is the part where some random third person goes "SNAP!!!".)

Why can't Wong Kan Seng just say, "No, Mas Selamat did not die in the WRDC"? (a la "No, I did not have sex with that woman.")

...

Maybe because that would be factually inaccurate...?

...

(maybe this would open up public debate for the first time on what "die" actually means...?)

...

Also, what do you mean NO VIDEOTAPE IN THE VIDEOCAM? Maybe Tammy has a thing or two to learn from the ISD :)

All I'm saying is my fish sense is tingling and telling me that something fishy has gone on / is going on and the collective wool is being pulled over our collective eyes.

The Mas Selamat Report:
I WANT TO BELIEVE.

Somebody turn on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath already, man...

The archnemesis of Penesonic

2008-04-23T22:37:00.002+08:00

It's just like OSIM vs. OTO, except MUCH BETTER!!

My favourite brand of TV

2008-04-15T02:20:00.002+08:00

Speechless

2008-04-15T00:08:00.001+08:00

Soooooooooooooo gay.

2008-04-13T01:32:00.004+08:00

Yes, that's right. So TOOT.

An ad by BCA

2008-04-13T01:06:00.004+08:00

Ok, I don't get it. Why is the woman so horrified? If your kid is strong enough to lift up a huge ass TV and push it out of the window, shouldn't you be happy? Or, doesn't the little freak deserve to die...?

Oh my god... THEY KILLED BUBBLES!!!

2008-04-13T00:05:00.006+08:00

I just don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

Child: Mummy.... Mummy... why does Bubbles have a bicycle pump sticking out of her body?

Mother: Hush, my child.

Also, what's up with the morbid obesity? I mean, check out those thunder thighs. You gotta love Ang Mo Kio.

Don't play pay

2008-03-30T02:05:00.006+08:00

I'm sure you've seen the "If you Play, you PAY" drug posters all over the place (especially at bus stops... where I seem to be spending most of my waking hours).

I mean, I get the message, but I really don't get the ads.

It just doesn't seem too smart of all these enterprises - whose clientele are already associated with drugs - to some more have their posterboys and girls grafitti-ed with jail bars and handcuffs and police officers and whatever scary shit right?

Ok so, gay men (NewUrbanMale), clubbers (Ministry of Sound, St. James), I can still understand. But jewellery buyers?!?!

I am so gonna associate Perlini's Silver with crackwhores now.

Anyway, I think the National Council Against Drug Abuse missed out on on a great advertising opportunity with my local CC:

SO YOU WANT TO CALL IT "TALENT" HUH?!?! LET'S BUST THOSE TODDLERS' ASSES!!!

What good parents do

2008-03-30T01:44:00.004+08:00

This is probably part of a whole series stocked by Life Bookstore. Other exciting titles include "Three Easy Steps to Disowning Your Gay Son" and "Making Your Child Feel Bad for Being Himself in TEN SHORT DAYS!!!".

Bird Park Bird Brains

2008-03-27T23:50:00.005+08:00

A good WTF bus stop ad from christmas time 2007.

... But... they ARE eagles... ...

SPLAT!

2008-02-05T23:01:00.000+08:00

Just kidding... the cat isn't dead. It's just taking a nap. I thought it was cute.

This though, is an actual piece of bread thrown onto a windscreen from some HDB flat above. Why, I don't know. D godz must B crazy.

And this is what greeted me when I pulled out a chair at the kopitiam. How come there's free food everywhere?

Er... boobies, anyone?

2007-12-23T01:02:00.001+08:00

I am so childish.

To be precise, the kind of child who's old enough to giggle when he/she/it sees a restaurant signboard at Changi Village saying "Seamen".

Yes, my parents raised me well.

Speaking of signboards at Changi Village:

It's so funny, like straight from your (innocently racist) childhood. How did people even come up with the sing-song "singh, singh, baboo singh, go home let your mother cane" anyway? What does it mean??? And isn't it horribly... wrong?

I'm not about to launch into a discussion about latent racism in Singapore but I mean, just imagine a shop sign emblazoned with "PROP. NEH NEH POK".

Moving on, here's how to make good use of your Higher Chinese - "Prostitution Fish Porridge" for sale!

Tee hee hee. Pity it wasn't open.

I'd like to end of this post by stating that Waraku (the restaurant) is really demeaning to women:

It's enough to make you want to shout...

KAMINAAAAAAAAAABEH!!!!!

All too good to be true. :)

Coitus interrupted

2007-12-23T00:48:00.001+08:00

I think this is one of the most poignant, yet utterly grotesque, scenes I've ever had the fortune to chance upon in real life.

A pair of cockroaches crushed by a single car tire while in the midst of mating.

It makes me want to throw up, but at the same time, it's so oddly beautiful.

This used to be my playground

2007-12-23T00:37:00.000+08:00

Ok, very melodrama I know, in addition to being a lie (since I took this near Changi Village), but just check this out:

It's really rare nowadays to see those old playgrounds with sand and concrete, isn't it?

Alright, true lah, back then got no sand ban ah, granite barge detainment ah, etc etc to deal with....

But HDB has been making their playgrounds the new-fangled, spongy-synthetic flooring, ultra-futuristic metallic kind for some time already.

You know what I mean - the really confusing kind. Sometimes you can barely tell where the kid's hands and legs are supposed to go. You almost think that they're supposed to crawl down the slide upside down on all fours, like that girl in The Exorcist.

One of the most distinctive sounds from childhood, for me, is the sound of slippers grinding sand as you arrived at the bottom of a concrete slide. And also, slippers grinding sand as you scrambled up a concrete slide.

One of the most distinctive feelings is (maybe not surprisingly...) the feeling of having playground sand ground into your backside as you slid to a painful halt.

But, still, WE ENJOYED IT!!!

Why no more? Unhygienic? Dangerous? Attracts dog/cat shit for children to accidentally dig up and eat/make into sandcastle?

Maybe in the future, the only time that kids get to see sand is when they go to the beach.

JTC is the weirdest place

2007-12-22T23:58:00.000+08:00

They must be the only stat board with three-eyed people.

Bananas Galore

2007-12-22T23:54:00.000+08:00

I've decided to make it my personal mission to document all the condom ads in Singapore.

Unfortunately I don't get out much so I haven't collected many, but give a girl some time...!

This one's a pretty common sight at the moment:

Quite discreet and sweet actually, but I wouldn't be surprised if it manages to get at least one ST Forumer's panties in a knot.

This one is more informative:

So cheap and so effective; my kind of ad. Just write some numbers on a frickin banana and take picture. Although, does "platinum" have anything at all to do with baby-prevention? They are also shooting (haha... shooting) for that James Bond association, as you can see. Men are so weird.

Previously there was another Okamoto ad on the MRT which featured a blown-up condom with a bird inside it and a bee outside it. (It was a lot more tastefully done than I've made it sound.) I commented on it to my conservative boss, who opined that she actually didn't think condom ads were appropriate for kids to see - "there are just some facts of life which you don't want to share when they're so young". I went on my usual rant of how condoms are inherently associated with kids anyway, so really what was the issue, etc. She said "Yah but, still." It was one of those moments when I realised that a lot of young, educated Singaporeans are indeed very conservative, as The Government always says. (Or perhaps, very hypocritical, in a passive sort of way.) It also made me want to document Singapore's condom ads.

Ok this isn't a condom ad but I just thought it was hilarious that they put the banana on the woman's boob. WTF?!

Our Immoral Times

2007-10-25T23:01:00.000+08:00

Oh my goooooooooooooood, like, you wouldn't believe what I saw that day k???

I was at the hawker centre and ...

Someone was holding their chopsticks.

WITH THEIR LEFT HAND.

It was absolutely disgusting. I wanted to throw up. It was so... so... UNNATURAL!!! It was so... so... so... IMMORAL!!!

I mean, who uses their left hand to hold chopsticks?!?! Everybody knows, ONLY FREAKS OF NATURE!!!

I'm so appalled that the government is not doing anything about it. What's criminal law for if you don't use it to punish aberrations of nature?!

Left unregulated, this will lead to the destruction of the family unit and the downfall of society as we know it.

THE GOVERNMENT MUST NOT FALL SWAY TO THE PRO-LEFT-HANDED-CHOPSTICK AGENDA!!!

Spot the punchline

2007-10-16T20:21:00.000+08:00

This is the view from my cube:

Funny right?

Ok, we get the message

2007-10-16T20:09:00.000+08:00

I have nothing against choping seats with tissue paper packets. It's a cute practice that spontaneously arose from our national values and circumstances, i.e. overcrowding + need for orderliness + most cost effective solution.

Also, it follows the basic rules of economics. From the picture below, for example, we can deduce that the person on the left wants his/her seat at least 8 times as much as the person on the right. Now that's what I call huge-ass tissue paper!!!

The good ol' days for bums

2007-10-16T19:55:00.000+08:00

What with the mini-fiasco on slippery seats and slipperier "bum-rests" at bus stops and MRT stations recently, I thought that this made for a nice blast from the past:

Yes, those "orbid" orange bus stop seats of yore. Often featuring flaking paint and cigarette burn marks, and goodness knows what stuck onto the concave underside. Whatever it was, there was no chance in hell that you'd slip off.

I also remember when these seats were coupled with the equally orbid (ok, "retro") orange and beige striped bus shelters, which really didn't look that bad, until you took a double-decker bus and saw all the shit lying on the roof.

This photo was taken outside Central (at Clarke Quay) a few months back. I doubt the seats are still there...

My take on sexy books

2007-09-15T00:49:00.000+08:00

(Get it? Not "I'm bringing sexy back", but... ... nevermind)

I took this some time back in Borders:

My phone camera is not the best in the world, so unfortunately I can't remember nor make out what it says on those green stickers. But I do remember being shocked that all the sex books were completely shrink-wrapped and had warnings on them.

So funny. It's like they're wrapping the books in condoms. MUST KEEP ALL THE BAD STUFF IN!

The other books in Borders are all unwrapped and thoroughly fingered and rifled through. (Yes, they're all sluts.)

My point is, why? These are actual, proper sex books (by "proper" I mean more words than pictures). If it's porn, ok - I understand if you wanna wrap it up, black it out, cover it in gold foil and put it on the top shelf (where only the young kids who happen to have hyperthyroidism will be tall enough to reach it). But these are really just like any other books devoted to a subject.

I know people will say - Oh, the Singaporean public is very conservative. Oh, they are not ready... etc etc.

Fine - maybe that boils down to that generation gap between the people making the policies, and the people who will change the policy one day but who are currently more busy making good use of university dorm rooms, and Hotel 81s (Hotels 81???), and perhaps even their handphone video cameras and internet connections for... oh, sorry I cannot say... you are not ready yet lah, paiseh.

That covers the premarital sex part. But what's up with all the morality from parents?

How disgustingly hypocritical is it when they protest to condom ads on MRT trains and ovulation test kit ads at bus stops, with the familiar cry of "what values are we trying to teach our children?!"

Tell me again what was that thing you did before that kid of yours was conceived?

Also, if you're going to shrinkwrap sexy books, why don't you shrinkwrap Her World and FHM and all those magazines too? (I don't know for a fact that Borders doesn't do this... I'm just being antagonistic.)

Jesus...

2007-09-15T00:10:00.000+08:00

I was walking towards City Hall MRT that day when something appeared:

This was on display at St Andrew's Cathedral's Welcome Centre. I couldn't help but stop and gape in horror.

Ads like these really do nothing to inspire respect for religion.

Firstly, they're premised on the ignorance of their audience - i.e. the ignorance of evolution. (It's even worse if the ignorance is deliberate.)

Secondly, they rely on the arrogance that stems from this ignorance - i.e. the arrogance that humans are not animals, that we are the most important things in the divine creator's eyes, etc.

And (this is a really cheap shot I admit), the ad even shamelessly rips off the aesthetics of those cool i-Pod ads.

Even if we dropped the marketing savvy bit...

Ignorance + Arrogance. What a superb combo. Who cares about educating themselves or being humble anyway? It's us versus them crazy monkey-making people man... don't ever let them get to you!

Swastikas on the MRT

2007-09-14T23:41:00.000+08:00

Call me a prude, but I feel a bit uncomfortable when people flaunt Nazi symbols in public:

I believe the above would be cause for arrest in Germany.

(I know that the swastika is actually a spiritual/religious symbol. This intent seems more apparent in the clothing of the guy below:)

But like that?

Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to profile anyone. I'm just wondering, would I get away with the same thing if I emblazoned my t-shirt with "CHINESE ARE THE SUPERIOR RACE" (or a symbolic equivalent)? I bet those lime-green shirted NEL officers would be "escorting" me very politely out of the station in no time.

Or... does this mean that Singapore implicitly subscribes to the notion of white supremacy? Hahaha.