North-South-东-西: February 2017

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Happy 4th Birthday 4岁生日快乐

Singapore

新加坡

North-South-Dong-Xi is FOUR years old!

2016 was a fruitful year as North-South-Dong-Xi had 56 articles posted.

Readers must have noticed that North-South-Dong-Xi is trying its best to write in bilingual.

Singapore is a multi-racial country, North-South-Dong-Xi had contributed its part by introducing different religious festivals celebrated in Singapore.

It was also first time that readers got to see North-South-Dong-Xi's author's face in "Writer Of The Week".

If by any chance that it had blinded any reader, then too bad.

Wathehaha!

Feedback from readers that they crave for food, so North-South-Dong-Xi will try its best to satisfy readers' taste buds in 2017.

Every year must repeat this phrase, hope that North-South-Dong-Xi has years to keep everyone company.

~*Happy 4th Birthday North-South-Dong-Xi*~

《North-South-东-西》四岁了！

2016年是个丰硕的一年，《North-South-东-西》刊登了56篇文章。

读者一定注意到，《North-South-东-西》正在尽最大努力用双语写作。

新加坡是一个多元化的国家，《North-South-东-西》为读者介绍新加坡不同宗教的节庆，做出了自己的贡献。

这也是第一次，读者们在《每周之作家》中看到《North-South-东-西》作者的庐山真面目。

如有闪瞎读者就不好意思啦。

哇的哈哈！

来自读者们的反馈，他们渴望食物，所以《North-South-东-西》将在2017年竭尽所能满足读者们的味蕾。

每年都必须重复这句话，希望在未来的时间里《North-South-东-西》可以一直陪伴大家。

～＊《North-South-东-西》4岁生日快乐＊～

Pride Flags

Colour has long played an important role in our community's expression of pride.

Since it is Valentine's Day - a day of LOVE, let's look into what colour flag is used to represent each individual group.

Asexual Pride Flag: Black stands for asexuality. Grey stands for Grey-Asexuality and Demisexuality. White stands for non-asexual partners and allies. Purple represents community.

Bisexual Pride Flag: The pink colour represents sexual attraction to the same sex only, the blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only and the resultant overlap colour purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes.

Gay Pride Flag: The rainbow colours reflect the diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Heterosexual Pride Flag: The black and white stripes represent attraction to the opposite sex.

Intersexual Pride Flag: The organisation aimed to create a symbol without gendered pink and blue colours. It describes yellow and purple as hermaphrodite colours.

Pansexual Pride Flag: The pink and blue represent the gender binary of male and female attraction while yellow represents attraction beyond the binary.

Transsexual Pride Flag: The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional colour for baby boys. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional colour for baby girls. The stripe in the middle is white, for those who are intersex, transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender.