I stepped on some ink

Mum said never to play with fountain pens and ink pad re-inkers. I never learnt my lessons......


I can get rid of the ink...it's staining my right ankle....

Mum is right. Don't play with such stuff...Nowadays, pens aren't the only thing you shouldn't play with. Posting irresponsibly on your blog or forums will get you into deep shit. Ok, by deep shit I mean hauling your ass into court and not by being dumped into NEWater treatment plant.

There's been some news report on channel news asia about two bloggers being charged under the Sedition Act.

Tomorrow.sg got the link
mrbrown has it
cowboycaleb has it too! But cowboycaleb say that the internet being a public place, we should keep our mouths shut unless we got nice things to say. Hmm....I hope he was being sarcastic.

Anyway, this is the Sedition Act. LINK

I lifted this from the website:

A seditious tendency is a tendency —

(a) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the Government;

(b) to excite the citizens of Singapore or the residents in Singapore to attempt to procure in Singapore, the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter as by law established;

(c) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in Singapore;

(d) to raise discontent or disaffection amongst the citizens of Singapore or the residents in Singapore;

(e) to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore.

But there are redeeming factors....

Notwithstanding subsection (1), any act, speech, words, publication or other thing shall not be deemed to be seditious by reason only that it has a tendency —

(a) to show that the Government has been misled or mistaken in any of its measures;

(b) to point out errors or defects in the Government or the Constitution as by law established or in legislation or in the administration of justice with a view to the remedying of such errors or defects;

(c) to persuade the citizens of Singapore or the residents in Singapore to attempt to procure by lawful means the alteration of any matter in Singapore; or

(d) to point out, with a view to their removal, any matters producing or having a tendency to produce feelings of ill-will and enmity between different races or classes of the population of Singapore,

if such act, speech, words, publication or other thing has not otherwise in fact a seditious tendency.

So good......we can "advise" the Government. It's capital G leh. Mai siao siao. Like when in bible, they write God, He, Him all in caps.
Anyway, the two guys sure kena part (e) of the seditious tendency subsection. Xiaxue, her sailor's mouth and her blog about her ugly trip to KL won't be under the Sedition Act.

I have a personal take on racism in Singapore. Won't blog about it as yet. But I genuinely believe that Singaporeans in general are not racist. Those who claim that they are, well, chances are, they just have a great dislike for certain behaviours, traits, characteristics in people. Colour don't matter much too Singaporeans. If it is, I should be rather worried. My ankle's blue black right now.