Okay, the AWARE saga may finally be over.

But from what I saw of the coverage of the EOGM, the event was a total mess. People really WERE booing and interrupting Ms Josie Lau's speech and the whole thing was a riot.

It's quite unbelievable that grown men and women can't restrain their impulses. They refused to give Josie Lau and Thio Su Mien a chance to defend their stand and the Old Guard supporters hogged the floor mike. There was probably a good reason why the floor mike wasn't switched on, and it was proven when speeches kept getting interrupted and voices raised.

True, the Old Guard might have won, but its supporters could have been a lot more civilised.

Still, I'm relatively happy at the final outcome - at least a neutral organisation is no longer led by people who joined the exco in an underhanded manner and who seem to be prejudiced against homosexuals. More importantly, secular NGOs cannot afford to be taken over by any particular religion, because if they can't be trusted to be the bastions of non-religiousness, who can?