no sticking out of tongues, please

boy, am i glad i’m not a civil servant as i can’t even stick my tongue out at my colleagues in a moment of jest… or when my habit of sticking tongue out when saying something wrong will be constructed wrongly.

no ogling, no hugging, so says the public service dept. (PSD) when issuing a guidelines for all civil servant.

well, don’t most girls love to be ogle at, at times? how do you tell an ‘ogle stare’ is sexual?

cracking off colour jokes not allowed but public discussion on sex allowed. well, don’t they (PSD authorities) know that when one talks on sex, more often than not, it will lead to off0colour jokes… and what’s wrong with that? come on, we are all matured adults… we need a dose of off-colour jokes once in a long while.

what i find most disturbing is dirty sms messages are prohibited. how will you know a person is sending a dirty SMS unless you check on his/her phone? and wouldn’t that be an invasion of privacy? ok i undertand what they meant is that a person shouldn’t send a dirty SMS to someone to ‘sexually harrass’ her/him in words… but what if both parties enjoy the dirty SMS… it’s just flirting anyway… can’t do that too?

ok i don’t mean to say this is not a good move by PSD. by all means, it is good of PSD to come up with guidelines defining the various form of sexual harrasment and also guidelines on how to make a complaint when one felt that she/he is being sexually harrased. however, some of these so called sexual harrasment acts seems ridiculous to me… or… er… i would rather say they (the acts) are quite subjective really – sometimes they would be consider sexual harrasment, sometimes not, so how do we draw the line?