Wednesday, December 11, 2013
11.12.13
This is like a very very very important date - why ? Because my sweetheart is entering wedlock today. Time really flew and she's like getting married today. Woah ! I'm damn fucking excited for later. It's like my first time going for a very close and loved one's wedding and literally like watching it from close proximity. Fuck yea, I'm so fucking excited for today and the 2 other days. And it's like my first time witnessing a Nikkah. Hahhaa. I still remember how I used to keep getting her nikkah dates confused with her reception dates :P

So anyways, I sent her a long message yesterday and so I am reserving my comments about her because all this will be coming up in my year-end post. It's going to be a tad too spicy a post ;) ! So sweetheart told me that she was going to print that message I had sent her and is planning to laminate it and keep in her new house. Well .... I mean I am damn touched and I also felt bad for making her cry (as in she was a little too touched) with that long message but then again, I'm sorry but not too sorry :P
At Chris's wedding with my favourites <3 font="">3>
Sensationalist coverage ?
Anyways today was a very eventful day. Earlier on in the afternoon, I, Vimmi and Ponni akka called SunTV network to provide feedback on their erroneous news reporting of the Little India riot incident and I swear, their unprofessional and irresponsible mannerism antagonised us to a greater extent. They simply pushed their blame on 'Reuters' world news and mentioned that their news coverage was devoid of sensationalism and even had the audacity to mention that their news report was accurate.
So that really got me off on the rough end. I sent a plethora of emails (I can't mention them out here) to various people and organisations and eventually, The Real Singapore published my article (or rather my FB Status) on their page. I'm truly like happy to note that they considered my report as credible and worthy enough to be published on their page. So thereafter, a few friends and I got to know that our Republic's High Commissioner to India, Mr Lim Thuan Kuan sent a letter to the chief editor of Sun News, Mr Umashankar and chided him them for their erroneous news coverage of that incident and even questioned their journalistic integrity. Our Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law, Mr Shanmugam also informed the public about SunTV's erroneous and sensationalist coverage of the incident and enclosed Mr Lim's letter. So a few friends and I were eagerly waiting for those asses to rectify the news and I heard they reported the accurate news today.
For those who want to have a read of the my article that was published on The Real Singapore page, here we go :- http://therealsingapore.com/content/indias-tv-says-indians-were-attacked-chinese-and-singapore-police
This is truly a moment to cherish in my life. Haha. Suddenly a huge number of strangers started sending me so many messages and friend request to thank me for stepping up for us. Haha ... truly a moment to cherish. My first initial status that brought so many likes (like the most that I've ever gotten so far) is like attached on the The Real Singapore article itself.
So I shall append the concluding status of mine which I posted a while ago here. The hashtags are omitted here though.
Firstly, hats off to our Republic’s High Commissioner to
India, Mr Lim Thuan Kuan for sending a letter to the chief editor of Sun News,
Mr Umashankar to castigate them on their erroneous reporting of the Little
India riot incident on their news channel and for demanding that they immediately
rectify their erroneous news report. In
addition, my salute to our Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law,
Mr K Shanmugam for informing the public about this incident via his Facebook
account and enclosing the copy of Mr Lim’s letter to Mr Umashankar.
As I had mentioned earlier in my status, when my friends and
I called Sun TV network in the afternoon to provide feedback to them on their
inaccurate news report, they simply behaved irresponsibly and unprofessionally by
shoving the blame to ‘Reuters’ world news and mentioned that their news report
on the riot was accurate and even threatened us saying that they had jotted our
numbers to send to their High Commission Office. So at this juncture, I’m truly
contented to note that our High Commissioner, Mr Lim has vehemently chided them
for their erroneous and sensationalist coverage of the incident and even
questioned their journalistic integrity and in addition, provided them with
credible sources to verify their news report and compelling them to rectify the
news as instantly.
So my dearest SUNTVnetwork, I really hope you would decide
to wipe the slate clean by validating and verifying your news resources before
airing them on your channel because your channel is rated as one of the most
watched channels in the world (statistics) and the least that you can do is to
stop sensationalising fabrications to sell your channel. In addition, your
audacity to push blames on others and to behave so unprofessionally was highly nauseating
and I hope you would revamp and improve the depth of your journalistic
integrity and serve your International viewers well especially since now we
will all take your news coverage with a pinch of salt. Also, as a Tamil
speaking Singaporean Indian, I do tune in to SunTV and I’m truly ashamed by
your erroneous news reporting and I hope this incident will never be replicated
in future.
To the rest of my friends, Facebook friends, random people
and others who cheered me and my friends on, I extend my gratitude to each and
everyone of you all for providing us the moral support. Sun TV Network had
apparently rectified their erroneous news report by accurately reporting the
incident on their 7pm news coverage earlier on (10/12/13). I am looking for
that video link on their YouTube account and I will post them if I manage to
find that video. In addition, thank you therealsingapore for posting my account
of the incident and crediting me in your article. I truly appreciate your
efforts. All in all, we’ve proved that we don’t need the National Day alone to
show our Singaporean spirits and that, the latter is deeply rooted in our
hearts and minds on every other day too.
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