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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

This post was supposed to be on like 23 march... hahahah... anyway, mi was talking abt a ministerial forum.. here, haf fun seeing me bitch...
went for a ministerial forum today.. kinda like smthg for YP..Dr Balaji was talking about some laws and legislative rules with regards to HIV and Aids that he hope to pass by the end of this year... It was quite interesting. I got to know a lot about the Aids issue in Singapore.
Well, thats not really the main point... the main thing i'm gonna talk about is how i was treated like an idiot at that forum...I asked sm question then that very pretty lady sitting beside Dr Balaji(i'm not gonna say who) ignored me!!! And because i didn't exactly have an identity... i'm not from YP, not from Women's Wing, not from some association also... so i only told Dr Balaji my name and gave my views... The next thing i heard after my question was answered --> " All people who are asking questions and giving their views, please state your name and the association you come from" WTF!!! That was so obviously targeted at me... Just because i'm a young girl who don't belong to any association, i have no right to speak?
Sighz... i agree that i might have been overly sensitive. That question could have been to the whole audience... But then i can't help it but feel that i was not welcomed... Other than Dr Balaji, i din feel as if anyone else was listening to me. Just because i'm only 20 and i was dressed in a baggy sweater and jeans, i was not treated as someone who can give good opinions... and i though the government wanted to "hear the views of the younger singaporeans"? SO FAKE!!! Oh well, after that, i actually realised that politicians are really very different from what they seem on tv and papers and even on interviews... Look at the way that pretty lady ignored me... Usually she seems like the kindest person on earth.. and when i was dere at the forum, i saw a different side of her. I saw how she defended the women who asked stupid questions just because they are from the association she heads. I also saw how she repeatedly shoot Dr Balaji with questions not related to the topic we were discussing... I also saw how she liked to pressurized Dr Balaji and try very hard to make him look dumb. What's wrong with her? I thought politicians are supposed to work together? If say for example, Dr Balaji was raising up an issue that was useless and stupid, i would have shot him down too... But i thought that Dr Balaji did a great job...He did his homework. He knew what he was talking about. He had plans that were well developed. So why shoot him down?

YYY