watched 华文智多星 Chinese Language Challenge

Interesting topic and debate, which is the must effective media to promote chinese culture? Some great arguments against books and newspaper is that readers are decreasing. Against tv is that the airing time is limited, and also that not all audience could be exposed to it. Some weak arguments are that internet and book have a wide range of selection, how to sieve for the appropriate onces, and their tangent is the edited culture such as spoofs. My argument against this is that this is where the reader must realize that there is plenty of ways to look at a culture, which makes it a culture, the culture appeals to everyone differently, just like a poem can be interpreted differently by several scholars. Also, there is no such thing as absolute truth, even in tv there are misinterpreted information. Moreover, promoting chinese culture through internet can be hard too since seldom there will be people to intentionally search for them, if so, wouldnt books have better awareness coverage, because through a book we might find other books and such in the same shelf. Also, book can be collected as an asset, unlike the soft copy on internet, but to attract to kids, obviously tv is best. Newspaper is quite alright since majority would subscribe to a daily newspaper, however most would not bother but update themselves with current news only.

Feedback about the program, very crap, because the audience are not really engaged into it. Firstly they speak too fast, which may be able to catch but no time to digest and process and come out with solid rebuttal. As they rush for the time limit, they are just vomiting, not debating, the audience have no clues to what they are talking about. Secondly, since it is a national challenge, sending foreigners to represent schools is a disgrace and humiliation to singapore in my point of view. This certainly would not influence locals into chinese culture, but merely asking the 'masters' of the culture to show off their talents and get the big pot of gold. Thirdly, some judges are biased. I think.

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next topic... same sex marriage

im really in a dilemma of which stand to choose.

One one hand I think that marriage is about love, so if a person feels that no opposite gender understands him/her better than a particular same sex, why not get married and look after each other. It's just like best friends, but in more intimate relationship. They doesnt have to have all the weird sex methods and stuffs like that, just simply being 'engaged' and share the same family benefit with other family types. This can also increase the probability for adoption of abandoned kids. Furthermore, this is applicable to only a small group of minorities, thus it doesn't hurt society or anyone in particular, nor requires lots of tolerance and stuffs like that.

The only problem with it is that the adopted kid will need to have sort of a feminine figure as a motherly figure for example a teacher or social worker. However these figures obviously has weaker bonds with them than the real mother, which often leads to them curious about their biological mothers, and vice versa. Thus, these children might not receive a lot of love and high chance of giving in to violence and cases of anomie. Also, same sex marriages tends to have higher divorce case (i think) since they can simply argue and fight, their empathy level is not as high when it is the same sex. Ofcoz, the impression of family for kids is also screwed.... again it is minority, so im leaning slightly to supportive of same sex marriages...

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anyway, today in church was fun haha.. kept deesiao-ing kei yun for his love life haha. JX and him was exchanging love message on fb, specifically competing who love another more, haha, eg: "i love you more", "i love you (number of hearts) more"... haha, so i came up with the song: 在屋顶唱着你的歌 （在 facebook 说 i love you more）, 让世界的人全部都知道, kei yun 喜欢 jia xuan, jia xuan 也是很喜欢 kei yun, 爱开始交结，梦有他儿而美~ hahaha