I'm on a roll and there's no stopping me. I cannot the resist the keyboard lah. It has been so long.

We were all having lunch at a fast food outlet somewhere near school and we soon found ourselves laughing our big fat asses off. At one juncture of the conversation or laughing fest, more like, some of us realised that we were poking fun at someone's religion and an ethnic group.

I, however, beg to differ.

It didn't seem like we were mocking the religion and the ethnicity in question. That would be referred to as being racist. For certain, I was well-aware that wasn't the case. You see, there is a very fine but distinctive line between mocking a person and mocking a person for what or who she is. Fortunately for most of us, we know where and when to draw the line.

I strongly believe that fellow Singaporeans have come to a point of maturity where we are completely okay with laughing or being laughed at, though there are exceptions.

This is not to say that I condone racist jokes especially those which are just downright mean and inappropriate. Now, what exactly connotates inappropriateness? I have no idea. I mean if racism is unacceptable, then how can racist jokes be appropriate, am I not right?

But I think that we should all for once stop trying so hard to be politically correct. Life's too short to have a cactus plant shoved up our behinds all the time. Indulge in some humour and don't be such a snag (that applies to both guys and girls). We're all born with brains and common sense is a gift, yes? A joke is but a joke. That's it. To be laughed at and really, that's it. If you cannot handle it, common sense would tell you to screw yourself front back, centre, left right, up down. In other words, please la, can you please not be so uptight?