Here's a little more about me

You Are Rocky Road Ice Cream

Unpredictable and wild, you know how to have fun. You're also a trendsetter who takes risks with new things. You know about the latest and greatest - and may have invented it! You are most compatible with vanilla ice cream.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

You Communicate With Your Eyes

When you say, "I'll believe it when I see it" - you really mean it. For you, what you see is a lot more important than what you hear. You don't take someone's words at face value. You judge people by their facial expressions, body language, and appearance. You tend to be quiet, but when you talk, you tend to make eye contact and describe things in colorful detail.

How Do You Communicate?

You Are the Very Gay Peppermint Patty!

Softball is the huge tipoff here... As well as a "best friend" who loves to call her "sir"

What Gay Childhood Icon Are You?

You Should Be a Dancer

You have a unique combination of grace and athleticism.. Whether you become a salsa dancer or a ballerina, you need to get dancing!

What Sort of Artist Should You Be?

Caffe Vanilla Frappuccino

Smooth and sweet, you fit in to almost any crowd. No one would suspect you of being a coffee tweaker!

What Flavor Frappuccino Are You?

You Are Cyclops

Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause. You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them. Power: force beams from your eyes

Which of the X-Men Are You?

Hello everyone! Haha..just a little bored so I took these personality tests..pretty interesting... It's just like doing a test paper while singing the Barney song..

lol..I'm just bored.

To What Extent is Freedom of Expression desired

The response to the publishing of the religious cartoons on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten could not have said it better. The cartoons, defaming and insulting the Islam religion has sparked racial riots, worsened diplomatic ties and caused furor across the globe; despite the Danish paper insisting that they had the freedom of expression to showcase these cartoons to the rest of the world.

Freedom of expression is essentially the right to speak and express one’s views over an issue openly to the public. While the freedom of expression helps our society to progress forward, it can also invoke repercussions that are unnecessary and detrimental to the development of democracy. In the context of Singapore, where there is cultural and religious pluralism, the consequences of freedom of speech might be too heavy to bear. As such, we must ask ourselves to what extent should an individual be allowed to exercise his right to speak. Personally, I feel that Mr Zsofia Szilagyi’s point of view should be adopted instead of Professor Peter Singer’s.

Professor Singer said that to prohibit the freedom of expression would mean depriving the people of having the basic right to speak out for the cause of truth, and that full freedom of speech should be granted; even on sensitive issues such as religion. Mr Szilagyi on the other hand acknowledges the importance of freedom of expression, but feels that this freedom should be restricted.

I agree with Mr Szilagyi, primarily because to allow total freedom of speech would be equivalent to destroying the racial and religious harmony that we enjoy in Singapore. Race and religion make a person. Each individual is governed by a set of values, and this set of moral values are usually indoctrined into us through our race and religion. Hence, essentially, to not speak out against one’s religion is giving that person a form of respect. I am very sure nobody in their right state of mind will take a defamatory statement to their religion or race lying down. As a result to adopt Peter Singer’s view would slow down societal development rather than act as a catalyst.

Peter Singer also points out that one should let the evidence do the talking. However, he was referring to the denial of the holocaust, a historical tragedy that took the lives of many people. Indeed, the analects of history does allow for such an evidence to do the talking. Still, when it comes to sensitive issues such as religion, it is hard to prove which religion is the true religion as each religion would have its respective form of bible. Might I also point out that had there been concrete evidence, the world would have been a uniform race rather than being diversified.

In spite of what I have said, I do not deny the importance of the freedom of expression. Without freedom of speech, our society will be stagnant and lagging behind in the new era in comparison with other countries. My main point is that one should strike a balance between freedom of speech and public interest to ensure a socially desirable level of expression and to allow our society to advance forward with time.

A warm welcome to my blog!

"Life is like a journey.
Sadly, it does not have a restart button.
Fortunately, there is no need for a restart button.
In life I have everything.
In life I have nothing.
In life, I do not lack anything"

Hello there, this is Lim Hsien Yong, your blogger on gp-flykite blog.

I am the average boy who lives down the street, living an average life, a very driven person. Most of my friends think I am very enthusiastic and extroversial, truth is I am actually a very introversial person, whose greatest wish in life is to be a blessing to everyone. What is blessing? Till this point of time I am still figuring it out. I like helping people and being there for them when they are in times of need, or when there is no need. I place great emphasis and value on friendship, as such, I love making new friends.

I have few personal interests. They include singing (yes I do sing, though not very well), reading, watching tv and sleeping (my favourite).

Moving on to my life as a student. I am a student at Anderson Junior College under the Direct Schools Admission scheme (DSA), my co-curricular activity is chess club (chinese chess section). I have a strong passion for chess and was the vice president of the chess club in my secondary school and the school team captain. Academically, I have a really strong liking for mathematics as I feel very comfortable doing it. Sometimes it fails me, but that only deepens my understanding and as such, I hardly make the same mistakes again. Perhaps the most ironic happening in my life is for me to win 2nd runner up for the manhunt modelling competition in my school. I was expecting to win only a consolation prize.

Well, that's all about me really. If you would like to know more, do approach me directly.

*apologies everyone, but i am complete novice at blogging. As such I am not used to introducing myself on cyberspace to such a huge audience. Rest assured, I promise I will get better*