15 July 2011
;21:52Just found several news extracts about the pro bono case that I worked on while I was interning with PT! Apparently, they have it on todayonline, xinmsn and asiaone. We were all really excited when the sentence was passed cos we thought he was going to get a heavier term than what he got but it all turned out pretty well in the end. The only thing that's not so nice is probably how all the newspapers took the slant that he was smuggling stuff in for the inmates and how the xinmsn photo makes him look like some kind of hardened criminal. Which is completely only one half of the truth.
If they had taken the effort to get to know Mr. Ng and his family background and how hard he has worked to bring up his children, I think the articles could have had a completely different slant. And most annoyingly, nobody mentioned that the whole thing started from altruistic and compassionate reasons, that he had only wanted to help the inmates out because they were working in such an unpleasant environment. Oh wells, sometimes you can't explain everything to everybody.
"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn't fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
//The Virgin Suicides; Jeffrey Eugenides
I was just in a family law talk with one of the family law partners at the firm I'm interning with. And he mentioned that the family court in singapore handles up to nearly one hundred divorces a week. That would add up to two hundred broken men and women on a weekly basis. And roughly three to four hundred broken children every seven days. How long before all these broken hearts find their way back home?
Just found several news extracts about the pro bono case that I worked on while I was interning with PT! Apparently, they have it on todayonline, xinmsn and asiaone. We were all really excited when the sentence was passed cos we thought he was going to get a heavier term than what he got but it all turned out pretty well in the end. The only thing that's not so nice is probably how all the newspapers took the slant that he was smuggling stuff in for the inmates and how the xinmsn photo makes him look like some kind of hardened criminal. Which is completely only one half of the truth.
If they had taken the effort to get to know Mr. Ng and his family background and how hard he has worked to bring up his children, I think the articles could have had a completely different slant. And most annoyingly, nobody mentioned that the whole thing started from altruistic and compassionate reasons, that he had only wanted to help the inmates out because they were working in such an unpleasant environment. Oh wells, sometimes you can't explain everything to everybody.
"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn't fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
//The Virgin Suicides; Jeffrey Eugenides
I was just in a family law talk with one of the family law partners at the firm I'm interning with. And he mentioned that the family court in singapore handles up to nearly one hundred divorces a week. That would add up to two hundred broken men and women on a weekly basis. And roughly three to four hundred broken children every seven days. How long before all these broken hearts find their way back home?
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