Shampoo Day
2006-10-20 @ 9:13 p.m.

Seems like Shu-min's post on her blog yesterday has the local online community up in arms. Not only is it on Tomorrow.sg, even the SeconomicsRJC Yahoo! group has a couple of e-mails on the subject, no thanks to Jireh. I happen to be among the minority who actually got the irony of her post, although I definitely agree that it was unnecessarily harsh and uncalled for. Oh dear, maybe I understand her because I'm a fellow member of the privileged "elites" that some people keep going on about? You know, the usual story. NYPS GEP, RI GEP, RJC Humanities. As the horde waiting out there with the sharpened knives will tell you, you don't get a better recipe for producing snobbish brats who apparently behave as if the rest of the world is there for them to tread on. Hey, everyone's undeniably a product of their upbringing and environment. Forget the whole nature-versus-nurture crap, which is just pig-headed because cause and effect aren't as straightforward as we'd like. So if you want to blast Shu-min, maybe it says something about you too, and you ought to look at the log in your own eye before you pick at the speck in someone else's. I'm not saying she was right; I'm saying you can't pass judgement on her and all the rest of the so-called "elites" just like that. It's probably flogging a dead horse, but even among the "elites" as you call them, we're not all alike. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.