Over Erdingers over the weekend, my TVD mates and I had a quick debate over who engineered the AWARE Old Guards’ riposte after they were unceremoniously outplayed fairly by the alleged homophobes cabal. Alleged. See Guai Lan figured that it was Braema Mathi who was the mastermind. The former NMP and Straits Times journalist was the one who orchestrated the mainstream and online media blitzkreig??
Get ready for an ass-whooping!
The Straits Times was the one which broke the AWARE story and Braema probably was the one who persuaded ST to carry the angle about this hostile takeover of AWARE by noob nobodies. Braema is some power Level 62 social activist and besides AWARE, she also dabbles in Maruah. Respect. In that human rights outfit, she is comrade-in-arms with Dr Stuart Koe from Fridae, a major gay online portal. Fridae was among the first to fire the fusillade about the anti-gay agenda behind the Aware revolution. In fact, Fridae opened its gun ports on the very same day as the Straits Times’ scoop. Woah, a pincer movement Rommel would have been proud of! Give Braema an Iron Cross!
Nevertheless, the anti-gay angle as a big reason behind the AWARE capture was a tad sensational and simplistic, but its spell chanting raised an army of the undead undiscerning bloggers who bought that story. Some of the berzerkers are even spinning at as anti-Christian in a way. Tsk tsk, don’t got there! Hope they (don’t?) trip on their battleaxes. The fundy gays vs the fundy Christians! Ding ding game on!
However, even after our 3rd wundabar Erdinger each, all of us were at a loss on how DBS got into the picture, and made a mess out of it…. Geek +1! Like in Revolutions when The Hammer piloted by Niobe crashed into Zion and unleashed the EMP, taking out the sentinels for a while but actually making the city defenceless as its weapons could not be used in the next wave of Sentinels. OK I’ve been dying to use that over-extended example of self-pwnage.
Heh. The debate is now about how the civil society is developing. Somehow in the unfolding drama, AWARE unabashedly became representative of the spectrum of civil societies dnyamics in Singapore. My Spidey sense is telling me that in the storming of the Aware Dover office in the coming EGM, Braema Mathi is going to use her Transient Workers’ Count influence and lots of maids will be the new post-AGM AWARE members who are going to exorcise AWARE of Josie Lau and Coven. These are not the Exco members you are looking for. We can go about our business. Move along. The EGM shouldn’t be held on Saturday 2 May though, maids usually get off on Sundays. Until then, set phasers to kill!
Bo Zheng Hu
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I found this in sammyboy and wondering if this email could be real…see the link for more details:
AWARE – The Hidden Hand
________________________________________
From: smthio@xxxxxxx.sg
To: stjh21@xxxxxx.sg, Undisclosed-Recipient:
Subject: Re Aware
Attachments AWARE_membership_mail-in_application_form.pdf concerned parents.1.do
PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
Dear All
Please see Attachments on some recent developments in Aware. Aware is a woman’s organization which conducts comprehensive sexual programmes for girls and it runs this programme in some of the schools. They encourage girls to express their full sexuality and this includes experimenting with other girls. It would be a good idea to join it and change its focus to other problems of women and families.
..Please ask your like-minded friends to join Aware so that you can give the vote to those who wish to be an agent of change for the Lord. They could also contribute to the activities of the oprganization as there is much to be done for women and families in this dowturn of the economy. Unfortunately, I cannot surface but shall be assisting in the background . I attach the Aware membership application form for your use. The Aware application form has a section as to who ( if any) told you about Aware. You can just leave it blank . Please let me know whether you can join and attend the AGM which will be towards the end of March 2009. The fee is $40/ and should be mailed to the Aware Office ( see application form).
Look forward to hearing from you. Please call me. May I have your phone no?
Blessings,
Su Mien
Well said. Respect. CKP! (singlish version of ROTFL)
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Excellent observation! Have never saw it from this perspective before.
I agree. The fundy christians may not have been good leaders but they were not lying when they expose the can of worms that call itself ‘wor-men’ instead of ‘All sorts’. After the whole pie-throwing, knives darting, blood spurting episode at the AGM, my eyes have been opened. The media tries to play down the pro-homo factor of the old cronies but i saw a plenty of free loving hippies wanting their piece of meat ah hem, yelling and chanting for their voices to be heard. The media hides the type of can of worms.
A women’s organisation, this is definitely not. Singapore needs to know that they have their very first organisation, ‘Gays for Action and Research’.
haha i literally LOLed at the iron cross bit.
Respect!@~like