Archives 1996 and 1997

Abbreviations are explained in the column on the right of the screen.

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Dec 1997	Knowledge and doctrine - doctrine often pretends to be knowledge, and tries to debunk knowledge using its own yardsticks		Kno
Dec 1997	Prostitution and morality - my views		Soc, Per
Dec 1997	Bottled ketchup - we get annoyed with bad design all around us, yet they persist		Soc
Nov 1997	'Teens' magazine: I found out my dad is gay - good effort, but could be better		Med, Hom
Nov 1997	Our dissidents abroad - what chances of them having any impact?		Pol
Nov 1997	I was cruised in the Shangri-la toilet - hope and death		Hum, Per
Oct 1997	Singapore as travesty - opening up is merely to attract migrants		Pol
Oct 1997	Brothers and twins - a roundup of scientific findings about the incidence of homosexuality in various kinds of brothers		Hom Kno
Sep 1997	Give me a bland world - I'd much rather McDonaldisation than extremism		Soc, Rel
Sep 1997	The gay debate strengthens the state - confronting issues of choice help clarify the relationship between individual and state		Pol
Sep 1997	Thick haze: governments obscured - impotence in the face of environmental disasters		Pol
Sep 1997	Sime Road Camp -where the Japanese held Allied POWs during the Second World War		Per
Sep 1997	Discovery and dissimulation - how we discover that we're gay		Hom
Sep 1997	The crowded margins - so many people feel shut out by the system		Pol, Soc
Jul 1997	The Mun Dispensary years, part 1 - my father's growing-up years, before the 2nd World War		Per
Jul 1997	The Mun Dispensary years, part 2 - how my father survived the Japanese Occupation of Singapore 1942-1945		Per
Jul 1997	Singapore as tragedy - a call for a flourishing civil society in Singapore?		Pol
Jul 1997	Mockery and sensationalism - how politicians and editors pander to the ignorant		Pol, Med
Jul 1997	Trent - how tenuous are our feelings when we're interested in someone!		Hum, Per
Jul 1997	Hurt feelings - is causing offence a reason to censor speech?		Pol, Soc
Jul 1997	Food and other surprises - we see food through cultural filters, sexuality too.		Soc, Hom
Jun 1997	Sodomy laws, legal paternalism, legal moralism and stuff like that - need I say more?		Law, Hom
Jun 1997	The curse of urban graces - love-struck, but with feet of clay		Hum
Jun 1997	Bound feet - traditional values aren't as wholesome as they're made out to be		Soc
Jun 1997	The Brazilian - he congratulated me on how beautiful Singapore girls are; I didn't know I was responsible!		Soc, Hum
Apr 1997	Why humans think they are special - 10% of rams display homosexual behaviour, and my thoughts lead on....		Soc, Kno, Hum
Mar 1997	What happens to little boys... - why are we so paranoid about "protecting" our young from seeing sex?		Soc, Rel
Mar 1997	The nameless kind - many straight persons don't have a name for their sexual orientation, why?		Soc, Hom
Mar 1997	Damned by politeness - Nelson Mandela was asked what he thought of Singapore's democracy		Pol
Mar 1997	Parks after dark - how people moralise about sex		Soc
Mar 1997	Clone on! - cloning technology will bring far more good than bad		Kno, Oth [Science]
Feb 1997	Why must we intellectualise about being gay? - many gay persons just get on with their lives		Hom, Hum
Feb 1997	Gay dress - how different and how much a part of our gaydar?		Hom
Feb 1997	Two by two - even the animals in the Noah's Ark story are used to sell the heterosexual pairbond		Soc, Hom
Feb 1997	TCS8: a deceiving gay character in a TV drama - rarely is a gay character of any kind written into our local TV productions		Med
Jan 1997	Scrambled English - it isn't easy writing for a webpage; what English to use?		Oth language]
Jan 1997	Falling into the flood - gay people have families too; my father and me		Per
Jan 1997	Merely ordinary - Singaporeans seem unusually many among gay web-personals		Med, Hom
Jan 1997	The moral centre of gravity - why wasn't the majority in the 1997 general election  proud of their choice?		Pol
Jan 1997	Males running riot - gay males and male sexual behvaiour		Soc, Hom
Jan 1997	Homophobia and self-hating straights - those who hate homosexuals hate themselves		Soc, Hom
Jan 1997	Jovan and his school - St Andrew's was horrified that one student declared on his homepage that he was gay		Soc, Hom
Jan 1997	Gender studies and the male nude - stocking dynamics in book stores, book banning in Singapore		Soc, Hom, Oth [business]
Jan 1997	Chinese Development Assistance Council - a race-based entity I don't want to have anything to do with		Pol, Soc, Per
Jan 1997	In praise of interference - why can't foreigners comment on domestic affairs?		Pol
Jan 1997	The road to Doi Suthep - the value of protesting		Pol, Oth [transport]
Dec 1996	You can't do that! - Sections 377 and 377a of the Penal Code and some recent cases		Law, Hom
Dec 1996	Science and sinking ships - science is neither truth nor prescription, but process		Kno
Dec 1996	Mr Seah's will - political loyalty and political affection are different things		Pol, Hum
Dec 1996	The empire of Hong Kong - Hong Kong's cultural influence goes quite far, but Singapore can barely find its own voice		Soc
Dec 1996	Far Ushuaia - coming out gets easier with practice		Hom, Per
Dec 1996	Calling from Suzhou -  my maternal grandmother was born there, given away as a child, and never went back.		Per
Dec 1996	Peace on earth, goodwill to all - what a jumble the modern Christmas is		Soc
Dec 1996	The virtues of sleaze - 75% of internet users in Singapore access porn		Soc
Dec 1996	The radio station of the universe - what will still mark us as human when we encounter intelligence from space		Hum
Dec 1996	Her World: My boyfriend is gay - this popular magazine blames gay men for leading women on		Med
Nov 1996	Singapore opens an art museum - at last we have a museum dedicated to art, but there's lots more to do		Soc,Oth [museums]
Nov 1996	Choosing between family and 'values' - is it more difficult for Singaporeans to come out to their families?		Hom
Oct 1996	The Calgary study - found that 12.7 percent of men in this mid-sized Canadian city were homosexual or bisexual		Soc, Hom