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THE STRAITS TIMES April 18, 2009 Sociable, chatty and a lover of good food WHEN Ms Josie Lau Meng Lee has her wonton mee, she likes the noodles cooked in fresh, boiling water. If it is not done right, she sends it back. That is how finicky the 48-year-old DBS vice- president and new Aware chief...

THE STRAITS TIMES April 18, 2009 AWARE'S POWER COUPLE Quiet, devoted to religious activities Alan Chin expressed his views on homosexuality in letters to ST Forum By Tan Dawn Wei IF HIS wife is a livewire, he is the quiet one. Friends say Dr Alan Chin Yew Liang, 51, has never been known to be...

That's the key thing, isn't it. "Pro-family" sets off a lot of alarm bells. Does that mean they will counsel battered women and send them back to abusive husbands? Cos that's the pro-family position on that. The family is the centre of patriarchal culture, so for a feminist organisation to say...

She tried to get DBS to donate to Focus on the Family, an American Christian organization, which is anti-gay, and also anti-premarital sex. Seems DBS customers queried that. As for Conrad's article, I think the whole point of it was to suggest that someone else was prodding DBS. He ends the...

Ho Chi Sam's letter is fabulous! The press needs to pick up on it and ask the new ex-com these questions.

I don't know. Just that I've seen other letters by this guy and he always speaks for his daughter.

I wonder why Dudley Au's daughter never has anything to say but that he says it for her? Old patriarchal duty of father securing the daughter's chastity, to save her from the women who might lead her to see how her father has been an oppressive force in her life?

If the old AWARE members do set up a new association, I would bet that the new group at AWARE will be constantly challenging it. What I fear may also happen is that the current limited resources for women (in terms of counselling and other service expertise, avenues for negotiating with the...

I am surprised by Balji's commentary. Why would he interpret the ex-presidents as being sore losers when it ought to be clear that the report itself was a bid by them to show that the takeover was not good for the women's movement here? Most readers got the implied message of the report--that...

I got the same feedback about her being clueless. One of her friends actually tells her she is "blur" in the sms exchange she published in her blog. She misread the ST article very badly. How could she think the ST and reporter were setting the agenda when the ex-presidents interviewed used...

Ever tried A1 curry puff? That's the best and the spiciest. Old Chung Kee pales by comparison.

Yes, apparently a lot of the new people at the AGM (except for their leaders) looked and behaved like zombies. They did this to stop AWARE from doing something. AWARE was just about to make some changes to its constitution. I reckon that now they have achieved that, they will move very, very...

To shOUTloud: Thanks for posting the two pieces.

Heheh, yes it's me. Good to be back, and to see you still here! I guess I've missed many an instalment of Tales from the Istana!

Yes, everyone is worth the sacrifice and the fight. But it is a matter of giving due attention to transforming national culture and character. That's why party politics is only a small part of the struggle. The sacrifice and the struggle has to take place on many fronts.

I agree with your take on this entirely, especially your last para. People here who see AWARE as a PAP tool are entirely and ridiculously off the mark. Don't they remember how Kanwaljit Soin was humiliated in Parliament when she tabled the Family Violence Bill? There has not been a single woman...

Porfirio Rubirosa, I don't think that given developments in feminism over the centuries, that we can still typecast feminists according to binaries that prevailed in ancient Greece. I prefer to think of women today as "patriarchal women" vs "feminists". The PAP women are undoubtedly patriarchal...

JBJ was deadly serious about challenging PAP control of the people. Nobody was more serious, and nobody sacrificed more. If he didn't succeed, a lot had to do with voter wimpiness and greed. Don't discredit JBJ's motives as "personal"--he was deeply ideological. You only had to talk to him to...