Mr. Adrian Tan (author of The Teenage Textbook..he wrote it while he was reading Law at NUS..never read it though) gave a talk on the subject of love at NTU recently, and here are some excerpts from his speech: It is far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only [...]

I was reading George Soros’ Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. He mentions that one of the earliest factors that eventually led to the decline of the US as a superpower, was that they stopped seeking truth. They became what he terms a “feel good society”. This led me on to the [...]

The Sunday Times asked a few advertising agencies to produce some posters to boost Singapore’s declining population..and the one by Ogilvy & Mather is pure LOL-worthy genius: Ogilvy & Mather - We wanted to highlight what parents could lose by not having another child: the incredible potential of a human being. Thomas Edison was a seventh [...]

I often let it slip casually, in way of introduction that I am a tech retard. So it ought not to be surprising if my idea of Forums, online ones that is, were mostly a place that geeks hung out and inflated their egoes by going “I’ve got a quad core!” (I actually have no [...]

I don’t like it when people ask me what I’m studying, and where I’m studying, especially if they are from NTU’s Mass Comm school. Because the conversation ALWAYS, without fail, go into this annoyingly condescending manner: A: Oh you study mass comm? Where? Me: NUS A: Huhhhhhhhh I didn’t know NUS got a mass comm programme! Got meh? [...]

Singapore: Nobody will be left behind. So don’t be a Nobody, be an Elite. - XP

I have been very much heartened by the encouragement given by friends, netizens and fans to write more frequently on my blog in order to share views on political issues, since the Straits Times no longer appears willing to publish my commentaries. - Catherine Lim =\ I wonder where he is now…hmm…making a bomb in a HDB [...]

So, have you changed your lifestyle over the past year? I certainly did. How can one not be environmentally friendly after all the Al Gore preaching and 324698326432 ‘Go Green’ campaigns ? Annnnd America votes today! I hope Obama wins the Pennsylvania primary polls. He was so charismatic and funny on The Daily Show yesterday. Watch [...]

Situation in brief: Local football fans are getting increasingly intolerant towards the constant price hikes for pay-TV football content. SingTel has secured exclusive broadcast rights to the hugely popular Uefa Champions League and Uefa Cup starting from August next year to 2012. The competitions are currently shown on StarHub’s ESPN STARSports Channels 23 and 24, [...]

StarHub fined $10,000 for ‘lesbian kissing scene’ 10 April 2008 TODAY (Singapore) (c) 2008. MediaCorp Press Ltd. The Media Development Authority has fined StarHub Cable Vision $10,000 for airing a commercial that depicted “lesbian kissing scenes”. The MDA posted a statement yesterday on its website about the cable operator’s breach of TV advertising guidelines, “which disallows advertisements that condone homosexuality”. The [...]