AWARE Saga Comes To A Close.

The AWARE Extraordinary General Meeting had the internets all a-twitter. Literally.

The event happened yesterday evening at Suntec Convention Centre drawing over 1800 people. I didn’t go since I couldn’t be arsed to find a willing partner.

“What’s Aware?”

“yeah we don’t need women’s rights. I mean hello, it’s Singapore”

actual quotes from girls I know. le sigh.

The primary reason for me to come would be to check out the cat fight, really. The parentals are out of town, if not we’d probably be there to support Braema. Overall it’s been a pretty unique little saga. I have a theory that the Media amplified the issue as a strategic distraction from the issue of Swine Flu. Nonetheless, it’s great that they’ve received such a scale of attention.

Instead Zaki and I followed the EOGM on twitter like the supermodern twerps that we are. #awaresg instantly became the hottest hashtag overnight. Sure you get 6-11 comments saying the exact same thing “zomg where did the new exco go” “did they leave the building?” It was particularly tense in the last few moments when the new exco disappear and did not resurface after the 15 minutes allocated at the end as they convened after facing a 1414-761 defeat. I was on the edge of my seat as I refreshed the screen. Finally, the old guard declared re-election. “Dana Lam is the new president” “Chew I-Jin is elected as the new VP”, tweeted the twits.

Woo! Well done, you!

All across the island, aunties run off to buy 4D tickets with the magical number: 1414.