Sunday, February 24, 2008
Dear Diary,
I spent my Saturday keeping a friend company at Interesthink while waiting for Dhan's birthday party (seriously fun, bathrobe and all!). It was...interesting.
I expected that :p But honestly, I thought there would be more people there - never having attended one of these conferences, I envisioned sth more along the lines of the UN MDG event last hols.
I was surprised! The people were interesting, and some gave me a lot of food for thought. One woman asked me if I blogged. "Not really" -
I really don't. These days, blogging is not about having just a weblog. The essence is people read you.
And I don't really want anyone to read what I write here. A lot of people use their blogs as online diaries that all their friends read, but I'm just not one of those. I just don't want my sister or mother snooping through my diary.
Plus, typing stuff out here takes away the secrecy somehow. So if they do read it it feels like less of an invasion.
Anyway, three things out of all the *interesting* (:p) speeches I heard yesterday:
1. Mr Larry Francis spoke on music as something of a taboo in the Islamic world. News to me, so I was interested. He spoke on ethnomusicology - again, another extremely interesting, new thing that I was unaware of. Something to read up on if I run out of stuff.
2. Mr Alex Au spoke on how we (society) are (is) the trap that keeps transgenders and women in the position to be abused. If we were more open, more accepting of people with such a past, then they would not be so trapped.. Hmm.
3. CPF is screwed up. That's why I'm migrating. ;D
Eve.
Labels: cool, life, random stuff, to think about