My question is also to the media. Why is SPH newspaper, you know, pushing the envelope of our anti-gay story when they knew exco was elected? How many of the people attended the AGM? At the AGM we were grilled on our religious affiliation. We were asked if we were anti-gay and we were told that because you are a Christian, you do not embrace the culture and the ethos of Aware. Do I need to say more?

Dr Thio's relationship with exco:

Dr Thio Su Mien: Okay, can I make it clear? I'm speaking on behalf of my personal capacity and I wanted to come because I feel kind of responsible for these difficulties they're going through because I was the one who mentored them over the years different groups of people. You know, I'm talking about 10 years kind of thing.

So when all this problem about comprehensive sexual education and the...came forth, and it's not that I read parent's letter, then I started thinking: Hey, parents, you better know what's happening, you better know what's happening. And then lots of things cropped up.

But anyway, I talked to parents, I said, you better do something about this, otherwise your daughter will come back and say, "Mum, I want to marry my girlfriend" or your son will say, "Dad, I want to marry my boyfriend." So they kind of got flabbergasted, what nonsense are they talking. So you know, I teach...well, maybe should go to the website, educate yourself what's happening.

It's happening in the US, in Europe, there's nothing new. It's going on five, six, seven, eight, nine years. So what is happening in society is that we are redefining marriage, we are redefining families. So I'm a concerned citizen and if people are so ignorant, I think I want to teach them.

Alan Chin (Josie Lau's husband) is my nephew. Yes. And he also had a death threat. And my family also has death threat.

Why Dr Thio did not run for exco:

Maureen Ng: I also want to make a pt clear. We are not puppets of Dr Thio. We are mature, thinking professional women. We join Aware to stand for a cause that we believe in and it is not easy for us to just listen to Dr Thio and say we go. We have to search ourselves and make decisions for ourselves.

Lois Ng: Honestly, Aware is too small an outfit for her and it's for newbies like us.

Was Dr Thio the organiser of the Aware takeover?

Dr Thio Su Mien: No, no, it depends on what you mean by organiser. Actually it's kind of flattering, in a way. Ok, what I did was I'm frustrated, you see. I talk to people, they got glass eyes, oh, ok, live and let live so not my responsibility. And they have children and they don't care. So almost like they're quite blind.

So I nag them, I talk to them, I talk to the husband and...So what I did is that I put down, collect info, I send to different people. So it's up to you. You want to join? You go and join.

(In reply to whether she had planned it)

No, no. No, no, I have better things to do than this, ok? I have to earn a living, I work and I do a lot of other things.

How Josie Lau joined Aware:

Let me share with you my story. Ok, I've been married to the family for 20 years. We meet occasionally once or twice a year, during Christmas, CNY. And she has been nagging me for the last 15, 20 years, are you doing something in the public, contributing back to the community? You have such a good life. Everything, you're jetsetting all the time. When, and I wasn't ready.

Now my kids are much older, I feel that it's time for me to contribute and when last year I personally was very very taken aback by the Spider Lilies premiere, as part of Aware's premiere gala and that set me thinking: what actually is Aware doing with all this thing?

And when the opportunity came and asked would you like to serve or join Aware, she said I'll put you in touch with somebody and that was how I got, I didn't even get in touch, it was Claire Nazar who called me and she was looking for somebody to assist her in the area of marketing and that's my area of expertise. And as it turned out, honestly, I did not join Aware thinking that there will definitely be a new exco.

I just know that I'm joining aware and if I stand for election and got elected, this is the area where I think I can contribute.

Police at the Aware centre:

Okay, this will be the last question because I've just received the latest update. This thing has grown out of proportion. Okay, the police are there right now at Aware Centre and Schultz Lee, our centre manager is raving and is shouting and just refusing to let the vendor replace the security locks. And the Old Guards, many of the Old Guards are on their way there. I believe there's going to be a fight. So I think, I'm so sorry, I think we have to call, make an end to the press conference.

Why change the locks at Aware:

This access security matter was discussed at the first Executive Committee meeting chaired by Claire. Basically we went to look at the premises. There are padlocks on all the doors and there's no proximity card system and so on. So we have concerns about the security about the place. And from information, the staff members each hold many keys. Altogether there are 60 keys to the premises floating around among the staff. So it was really a matter of concern for the new Executive Committee as to the security of the place. So we actually talked about making sure that the premises are well secured. And as you know, it is common nowadays for offices to install proximity card system so that we know who goes in and out of the premises and to secure the rest of the premises.

End of conference:

We really have to go to the Aware centre, big fight, the police are there, the Old Guard are there because they resisted our attempt to change security, the lock. So this is our, my question is why the unusually strong reaction.

It's something that, it's a question that begs to be asked and to be investigated further. And maybe the media might want to look at it from a different angle. The reason why we're here is that we're not dodging the press. We know that the media has been baying for blood, coming up with stories day after day and then even on one particular day someone counted that ST ran 10 pages on Aware.

And Aware has never received such high, much attention. So the reason we're here is to answer your queries and about us being Christians, what we want to do and, okay, in the ST has also mentioned Dr Thio's name. So we decided to just meet the press and let you, we try our best to answer your questions. So I think that is enough and maybe for people who want other questions we can always arrange another time.