Dewdrop Notes 露语

Dr Denisa Kera, the co-founder of Secret Cooks Club, which made headlines last year when they organised a dinner eating sushi off a naked woman has apologised to her neighbours.

The Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS) allegedly held loud parties late into the night, irking neighbours who reportedly called the police at least 6 times within a span of 9 months. Her “parties irking neighbours” was widely reported by local media beginning of this year.

After the media reports were published, the researcher with the Department of Communications and New Media at NUS laid low and decided to apologise to her neighbours but insisted that she has not stepped out of line.

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Another intellectual who refuses to behave? Or are we too narrow-minded to accept people who dare to actually do things that we only dare dream about? So why are people angry? Are they genuinely disgusted with her parties to which they were not invited but chose to eavesdrop upon? Frankly, I prefer my sushi chilled and not warmed, but if people choose to have their sushi off a naked human body, I’d be happy just to watch them eat.

Not only do I not like warm sushi, I don’t even know Dr Kera personally (and have no reason to defend her), but many of the folks who claimed they were offended by their neighbour having naked sushi and complained about her “immoral” behaviour are merely looking at one aspect of morality.

The one lying on the sushi table may well be a kind and generous person who ends up saving your life one day. She could have given up her seat on the MRT to an elderly lady on her way to the party. A prim, proper, scholarly individual may end up destroying you or torturing animals. She could have even bought a genuine mink coat online.

Who is more moral? Mr Ivan Loh needs to take a deeper and broader view of what makes humans moral beings. Mr Loh needs to be more worried about teachers who are well-dressed, show exemplary behaviour in public and don’t hold loud parties but quietly sms their underaged students for sexual trysts. If we were really such puritanical people, then Penny Heng’s cheapskate virtual blowjob video wouldn’t have gone viral. If we were really such puritanical people, then search words like “cammi tse” and “janice man” wouldn’t have dominated google.sg.

Let’s stop being naive. Decently dressed and quiet people are capable of disgusting behaviour like this. Is there no moral issue here? What about grossly indecent behaviour like stuffing used tissue into the armrest of a taxi? For all you know, the naked woman on the table may have eaten a lot less shark’s fin and used more recycled paper than the folks who are going “eeeee…” with nudity and wild parties.

And the other day, I happened to be walking behind a bunch of giggling schoolgirls at Compass Point when one of them spoke a little louder than necessary.

“That #$%^&@#! Mrs Lim asked me to rewrite my composition topic on an accident I witnessed. I wrote that the victim #$%^&@#! died. She said I should have a #$%^&@#! happy ending since the passer-bys were helpful and the ambulance arrived on time. I felt like telling her – #$%^&@#! life is not a #$%^&@#! fairy tale.”

I wonder who should really be teaching our kids. We really live up to our reputation of having the highest rate of myopia in the world.