School - society

Oh crap

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:08:32 +0000

I might die anytime. Imagine my horror when I saw this on the papers..and the corresponding tin of toxic poison in my kitchen: I think I only ate 4 pieces…lucky for me that I’ve never been a fan of biscuits..

Annoyed

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:02:32 +0000

I am sick of the useless tutors that I have to listen to everyday, and the meaningless assignments that I have to do everyday. I still don’t understand why my parents are paying thousands of hard-earned dollars just to put me through this sad excuse of an education system. I just wish that the authorities [...]

Drama F1

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:37:50 +0000

So the world’s very first night race and Asia’s first F1 street circuit ends on a high note and the whole event has been a tremendous success. This is really advertisement that no amount of money can buy. Juxtaposed against the shimmering race track, Singapore’s skyline has never looked so beautiful. Singapore brought F1 to [...]

Touching, but naive and unrealistic

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:01:58 +0000

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 [...]

Antipathy and Social Fallout

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:26:03 +0000

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 [...]

Desperately Seeking Spawn

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:22:13 +0000

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 [...]

Society’s underground meetings

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:37:59 +0000

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 [...]

Small things I don’t like #943474

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:23:25 +0000

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? [...]

On Life

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:02:37 +0000

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

Authoritarian media on Mas Selamat’s escape

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:30:35 +0000

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 [...]

Earth Day

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:15:19 +0000

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 [...]

Pay-TV Football Price War

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:28:24 +0000

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, [...]

MDA is a joke..and MediaCorp is complacent.

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:12:23 +0000

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 [...]

A Hosaywood Production

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:04:01 +0000

This is so brilliant, sad, and funny all at the same time. It goes out especially to those who always think that local films suck. “I don’t watch local films,” I have heard this so many times it’s getting a bit sickening. Not all local films suck..though a majority of Jack Neo’s films do suck. [...]

Public transport? Sure…but..

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:23:19 +0000

The Ministry of Transport has recently announced its plans to give cash to car/motorbike owners who are scrapping their car, in a move to encourage higher use of public transport. This is great because it reduces pollution and makes us a ‘greeeener’ country. But can the government please, please, please, for the love of all things [...]