should homosexuals and transexual be discriminated?

I personally feel that we should not discriminate homosexuals and transsexuals as it is their life and they can choose how they want to live it. We have no rights to discriminate them and think that they are not normal as to them, we might be the one that is weird or abnormal.

Homosexuals and transsexuals are the same with everyone, they too are humans. They will not become monsters just because they prefer someone of the same gender or prefer to be another gender. What we think may be normal but to others it might not be normal and therefore different people have different perspectives and we should respect their thinking even if we do not agree with it.

What good will it do to us even if we discriminate these people? They will still carry on living the way they want it to be. Some may decide to be a homosexual or transsexual after getting a huge setback and if we discriminate them, they will end up giving up and start living in despair. This will only make matters worse. If we are willing to help them, they might start to have hope again.

Hence, I feel that we should not discriminate homosexuals and transsexuals as these people might have their own thinking and problem.

signs to help or confuse you?

Are signs there to help you or to confuse you? Signboards are supposed to be there to help us and assist us but there are also many signs that end up confusing us.

I came across one of this confusing signs personally once. It was a sign written in Chinese and English. It was a sign telling people to beware of the slippery floor in Chinese, however the words in English were saying beware of landslide which was directly translated from the Chinese line word by word. As I understood mandarin I understood the message the sign was trying to pass, however if it was someone who does not understand mandarin, they will be puzzled by the sign.

Some signs are confusing not because of the language but just that the sign totally do not make sense and this signs may cause drivers or passerby to go to a wrong direction or interpret it wrongly.

True friends in SMU?

It is always seen in television shows that the rich will have many friends but once they become poor, most of their friends will start to ignore them. We may have seen many of such cases in shows, however, there are many of such cases in real life too.
It was reported that in Singapore Management University (SMU) such case really happened. People would only friend you if you own luxurious items and those that do not own such items were ignored and outcast.

Personally, I find these people very materialistic and superficial. If you only friend someone because he/she owns branded goods, the friendship would not last and you will not gain real happiness through it. By doing so, you will only become more materialistic and have lesser friends in time to come as your wants will start to increase and you will only want to gain from the friendship instead of giving.

Bisexuality / Homosexuality

Bisexuality / Homosexuality is currently not legalised in Singapore. However in countries such as America, have legalised gay and lesbian marraiges. In my opinion, I feel that Bisexuality / Homosexuality should not be legalised in Singapore.

Let's talk about our home country only. It is acceptable in countries like America because they are more open in their views towards Bisexuality / Homosexuality. But it seems highly undesirable in a small city like Singapore. We have to admit that we are a conservative country.

Can the conservative Singaporeans accept that Bisexuality / Homosexuality will be legalised? If it were to be leagalised, there will be more lesbian and gay marriages. Hence more of such couples will been seen on street. Are Singaporeans ready to accept this fact?

Let's not talk about Bisexuality / Homosexuality for a moment. We as Singaporeans cannot even accept public display of affection between normal couples in a normal relationship between a man and a women. Look at America, this does not seem to be an issue. In fact, we do see it quite often on the streets as well. The people do not get fined if they display public affection. Singapore, on the other hand, finds it unacceptable and even fine those couples that are caught. Stomp.som.sg is a website that features several reports of students displaying public affection. The couples are often critiqued as being disgusting when their pictures of intimacy were posted online.

Since the issue of public affection is so serious in Singapore, What more Bisexuality / Homosexuality? On this light, what would become of Singapore if Bisexuality / Homosexuality is leagalised?

" Bisexuality / Homosexuality " should not be leagalised in Singapore! " and this is my stand on this issue.

Written By: Chan Jiayi

should gays and lesbians be discriminated?

My answer is no. They are still human like us, normal humans. But they have a different options when comes to love. They have their reasons for being the way they are. They should be accepted in the society as well. Its not like they wanted things to be this way from the very start. Its just normal for some of them to turn to their own kind when they had a failure in their past relationship. Maybe its because they were hurt too much till they cannot forget the bad things that happen to them. And maybe the only solution is to be with someone with the same gender as they can relate better to them because they know how and why we are feeling this way.

The attention that they give us is also different because, they know what they need and want. Being a lesbian or gay is not something we should be afraid off. Its what we stand up for , if not why would we become like those.

Yes, it is a sin to most of the religion by allowing lesbian to be together. But thats just it. Its what they want and they are very much happy with it. I do have friends that are gays and lesbians. But i still accept them because thats what they are and so long as they are happy with their life, i have no problems to that. I will be the friend that they need when they have problems.

Therefore, what i can conclude is that , gays and lesbians shoud not be discriminated as they also have the same right to be in the same society as us :)

Bad Sign Due To Bad English

So far in Singapore, i have not come across any bad signs, YET. HAHA! but when i did my reseach on bad signs in different countries, it was really funny. Its like they do direct translation to the word in English and have funny spelling to it.

Therefor, it is important that we speak and understand good english to avoid miscommunication with the other party. We might be laughing at other countries for their bad signs, but maybe to them, they understand that cause it somewhat their "language". It goes the same to our country, maybe when tourist come over to Singapore, they wont understand some of the sign and languages that we use. For example, Singapore is known for its Singlish, but then we Singaporeans would still be able to understand what the other party is talking. But when we talk to foreigners, they wont be able to understand what we are talking.

Therefore, what i can say is that different country has different understanding of languanges and signs. Every country and signs are unique in their own way :)

WIKI-LEAKS

Wiki-leak is about top secret information that is held by the US governement about different country secrets. And all of this information have been spread by a Bristish ,Julian Assange. He is also wanted for rape allegations by Sweden.Some highlighted concerns are :

• Islamist militants might get access to Pakistan nulear material
• Italian prime minister is described as a "vain,feckless and ineffective"

This shows that the US government does not have a tight security for their confidential files regarding other countries. Some people are impressed and some are afraid that other files will be leaked out and all the confidentiality will be exploited. This will jeapordize U.S relations with its allies. Other countries might not have that full trust towards US government anymore.

Some are impressed because someone could hacked into the US government eventhough it is known as a high security site. In order to regain the other countries and people trust, US government should really build up their system to avoid this from happening again.