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Hi people! I am Joel, and I hope to make a contribution to this wonderful Wikipedia Community.
[edit] About Me
[edit] Favourites
- Bands: Simple Plan, Avril Lavigne, Colin Raye, Relient K, Bowling for Soup, Corrinne May and Coldplay. They rawk!
- Instrumental pieces: Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Sonata in G Major, Scarlatti's Sonata in G Major, Senneville's Souvenir D'enfance (performed by Richard Clayderman)
- Poets: I think Alfian bin Sa'at (an acclaimed Singaporean poet) is cool. He is anti-establishment and anti-government and anti-Singapore and a homosexual but I still love his poems. I don't always agree with them but I love them<3 Maya Angelou rocks my socks too(:
- I love Singapore. The sad thing is that if you google that term, most of the top 10 results are not citizens' declarations of love for Singapore. Instead, you get stuff such as Romancing Singapore, sarcastic stuff, National Education for students and dating in Singapore. Quite sad, huh?
[edit] Contributions
The few pages that I have significantly contributed (either started or expanded/modified any version greatly) to are:
[edit] To do list
The following is stuff I plan to do:
[edit] Stuff about me
- I am about 1.81m tall.
- I appeared on TV once >< It was the first season of "Singapore's Brainiest Kid" on [MediaCorp TV Channel 5 Channel 5]. Sadly, I got kicked out in the second round. The episode I was on was the first episode of the first season to be filmed and there were lots of technical glitches... So we filmed until around midnight. Filming that late, I got a mental block and answered a really simple question wrongly and subsequently got eliminated):
- I like sailing the Optimist but gave up due to lack of time.
- I got 279 for PSLE (Perhaps this confirms the rumour you heard about Singaporean students' obsessions with marks XP)
- I.want.GPA.4.0.
[edit] Quotes
Quotes that I enjoy (but not necessarily agree with):
Singapore you are not my country.
Singapore you are not my country at all.
You are surprising Singapore, statistics-starved Singapore,
soulful Singapore of tourist brochures in Japanese and
hourglass kebayas.
You protest, but without picketing, without rioting,
without Catherine Lim,
but through your loudspeaker media, through the hyp-
notic eyeballs of your newscasters, and that weather
woman who i swear is working voodoo on my teevee
screen.
Singapore, what are these lawsuits in my mailbox?
There are so many sheafs, I should have tipped the
postman.
Singapore, I assert, you are not a country at all.
Do not raise your voice against me, I am not afraid of your
anthem although the lyrics are still bleeding from the
bark of my sapless heart.
Not because I sang them pigtailed pinnafored breakfasted
chalkshoed in school
But because I used to watch telly till they ran out of
shows.
-a short excerpt from the five-page long poem "Singapore You Are Not My Country" by Alfian Sa'at (for Noora)
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
-Juliet (from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Excerpt from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
-Shylock (from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice)
If you love Singapore too much, first it will break your heart, then it will break your soul.
-Alfian Sa'at, acclaimed Singaporean poet.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
-Excerpt from Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise"
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-Atticus Finch (from Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird)
I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage where every man must play his part, And mine a sad one
-Antonio (from Shakespeare's Mechant of Venice)
Singapore why do you wail that way, demanding my IC?
Singapore, stop yelling and calling me names.
How dare you call me a chauvinist, an opposition party,
a liar,
a traitor, a mendicant professor, a Marxist homosexual
communist
pornography banned literature chewing gum liberty
smuggler?
How can you say I do not believe in
The Free Press autopsies mudslinging bankruptcy
which are the five pillars of Justice?
And how can you call yourself a country, you terrible
hallucination
of highways and cranes and condominiums ten minutes'
drive from the MRT?
-a short excerpt from the five-page long poem "Singapore You Are Not My Country" by Alfian Sa'at (for Noora)
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