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Siemens Industry Software Inc. (formerly known as Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc) v Inzign Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 50
Employee installed unauthorised version of Siemens’ commercial software on a company laptop for his work without permission. Siemens sued the company for copyright infringement. Court held the company vicariously liable for the employee’s infringement but not directly or primarily liable.
Have you ever had to facilitate a group discussion? It could be a work brainstorming meeting, focus group or accountability small group.
Every so often, we may find that the discussion is veering off course or losing steam, some voices drown others out, ideas or content get stale, or things get heated.
Here are some tools and techniques to help facilitate group discussions.
29 December 2014
Bodies somersault in silent currents;
dancers and stumblers separate in rhythm.
And there was evening and there was morning.
Nimble winds weave around falling metal,
separating head from tail, wings from body.
And there was evening and there was morning.
Heads drop like fresh fruit fallen on damp fields;
knives, like seasons, separate ripe from unripe.
And there was evening and there was morning.
Stray cells burst out all around like spring bloom,
separating the faint hearts of lovers.
And there was evening and there was morning.
The conquered echo hymns of foreign gods;
words separate the trembling from the inert.
And there was evening and there was morning.
Crusts of earth unclasp their quiescent hands,
separating flesh from dust and dry bones.
And there was evening and there was morning.
Pure light gilds new trees by ancient rivers,
separating never from forever.
And there was evening, the final evening.
And there is morning.
1 December 2019
How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Psalm 13:1-2
I’m the traveller waiting in transit,
whose flight is not yet fixed or known to him,
in a foreign land whose food he now eats,
whose language he now speaks fluently in.
The boarding time—that’s still a mystery,
but the retail offers make up for it,
and the cheap spa’s soothing soul therapy,
one would give up checking every minute.
Crowds or jostling bother not much longer
than the dated movies showing on screen,
so other travellers ‘round drinks gather,
forget the land they were meant to be in:
the land of ancestors and native tongues,
of healing and soulful songs to be sung.
“Hallelujah people lai liao!*”:
lanterns lit our path into a house of—God
have mercy—sex, flesh hiding beneath
frail smiles, our offers of cookies and prayer.
.
A dark-skinned girl wearing
a cross, which I could not bear
to look, reached for us; we embraced
her in a cocoon of indistinguishable bodies.
.
Clasped hands catching crumbs
of lost words and bowed heads
sculpted petitions to our Father. Amen,
we said, a thousand questions
.
unspoken among us,
each struggling to soar, to find a home
where every answer burns
a gentle fire to light up a long, long night.
.
* “lai liao”: literally come already in Chinese
Hunched, with a cane, under whipping echoes
of foreign men’s curses, he half-squatted, half-
sat pregnant with, heaving, a chest-full lifetime of
lies slipping through the shackles of his blank gaze;
on his trembling lap sits his children’s hopes
crafted in Hindi on generic postcards; one falls
onto his scabbed foot swollen from the earth’s
protestations against his lot – his only worth.
Published in SINGPOWRIMO:THE ANTHOLOGY, edited by Ann Ang, Joshua Ip and Pooja Nansi, Math Paper Press (2014)
9 November 2014
.
Your daughter feeds you. Baby
spoon lingers on pale lips, like
a question, I imagine, drifting
at the edge of your memory
.
as you search for me there–
a letter without a word,
folding, never touching itself–
aimlessly. The Elder gestures
.
for me to hold your hand.
I feel your dry skin open,
swallowing the wavering
unfamiliarity between us
.
as we pray. Our eyes are closed:
I am comforted by their shadows,
where distance is immeasurable.
You do not know me, or I,
.
you, who are related
only by the name
by which our pleas coalesce
then dissipate like vapour.
.
As the last of the Elder’s
words journey towards their destination,
I look up. Your eyes light up
as we say together, amen.
Sometimes
I have loved
the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday.
It is like standing
in a newly planted garden after a warm rain.
You can feel
the silent and invisible life.
Any human face
is a claim on you, because
you can’t help but understand
the singularity of it,
the courage and loneliness of it.
But this is truest of the face of an infant.
I consider that to be one kind of vision,
as mystical as any. Love is
holy because it is like grace–
the worthiness of its object is never
really what matters.
There is no justice
in love, no proportion in it,
and there need not be,
because in any specific instance it is
only a glimpse or parable
of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.
It makes no sense at all
because it is the eternal breaking in
on the temporal. So how could it
subordinate itself to cause or consequence?
There are a thousand thousand reasons
to live this life,
everyone of them sufficient.
Grace has a grand laughter in it.
There’s so much to be grateful for,
words are poor things.
Published in SingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology (Math Paper Press: 2016)
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