So one of the things I'd miss is ABC TV's programs, especially those like Media Watch. Just love that program. Hopefully, I can still catch some of it online. I think what Singapore needs is exactly the sort of public service function that the ABC, BBC, PBS, C-Span et al. provide. Reasonably free and independent media. In thirty years, maybe... Tonight's short skit on...
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Monday, June 27, 2005
300 MB Free Picture Hosting From Google/Blogger
Google is so bloody close to creating an almost total democracy without barriers to entry on the Internets for free. You can upload tens of thousands of pictures, and can also link them from elsewhere, not necessary Blogger. If they can only allow 300 MB free website hosting also, this thing will really take off... it instantly creates a whole new world of mass media...
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Ode To ACS 'Plagiarised' School Anthem
This one scandal.I read the comments of the previous entry about a song that shares a similar melody with another, and started researching on another example that I knew about, the school song of Anglo Chinese School that has the melody of one of Canada's unofficial national anthems, The Maple Leaf Forever. I spent six years in ACS but never bothered to check up on this,...
Folk/Traditional/老 Songs
I was listening to some Taiwanese 老歌 in my mp3 collection and was thinking if there's a Singapore equivalent for these types of songs. The first that came to my mind was the lovely 'dayong sampan'. Other than it's about a boat, I don't know much about it. Googling pointed to the existence of a symphonic interpretation for the piece. So that's nice. And it's not available...
Friday, June 24, 2005
Sophie's TV World
I was half typing and half watching TV with the weird language with subtitles (actually, Norwegian) when it dawned on me that it's Sophie's World! Goosebumps time, like the book going into my TV and producing live characters and with Knox the correspondent reporting the proceedings of the Socrates trial for her! Sublime stuff...Here's Socrates drinking some poison hemlock...
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Hong Kong, Perth, Singapore, Taipei Land Area Comparison
So to get a feel for relative sizes of these places, I use the same map scale and line them up.Hong Kong (population: 6,898,686, density: 6,254/km²)Perth (population: 1,433,217, density: 203/km², my calculation from here.)Singapore (population: 4,425,720, density: 6,389/km²)Taipei (population 2,625,512, density: 9,660/km²)...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Redeeming Microsoft
I've been a few days late in following the Microsoft MSN censors bloggers story. MSN Spaces in China is censoring, at least sort of, words like 'democracy', 'demonstration', 'taiwan independence', 'Dalai Lama', 'freedom', 'human rights' in blog titles to obey the orders of Beijing censors. That's like the equivalent of taking out the letters 'd', 'e', 'm', 'o', 'c'......
Monday, June 20, 2005
Elite Is As Elite Does
So the current interesting topic is this 'elite' thing. Wang Zhen has reproduced the newspaper article here.My application to join the 'elite' club was rejected when I failed to score 4 As and a S-paper distinction. My eagerly awaited interview for the prestigious PSC scholarship never materialised. For the first time in my life, I felt vulnerable. The clouds I had been...
Palm Monday Again
Phew, I just put up a hefty review of the new palmOne device. Nice work, Jon. Since I haven't done much of Palm evangelising around these places, there's going to be a demo next week for folks in Singapore. So watch this space if you're interested...
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Singapore Schools Hit By Disgraceful Disease With No Known Cure
Singapore has this national blogging competition for students going on, supported by the education ministry with product placement from the biggest telco Singtel. Although most would probably agree that a 'blogging competition' is a strange and bizarre idea, I'm sure a committee has determined that everything should be a competition in this country, including online diaries/journals/blogs.One...
Wintertime
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope;Winter alone reminds us of the human condition.~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966Winter is my favourite season. It's not just the low temperatures, it's the smell that's in the air; hits you in the nose as the icy feeling explodes inside. I don't know what it's supposed to smell like, but it seems to me...
Monday, June 13, 2005
Soundbite Censored
Bloggers like 22-year-old Gabriel Seah think nothing of her lack of inhibition. 'The Internet is a free society, there is no reason why anyone should not do this, because it doesn't hurt anyone.'~Straits Times/Naked blogger sets Net community abuzzI know exams are tomorrow, but I really think I want to have tea with Melissa and Serene, the two journalists who wrote the...
Thursday, June 2, 2005
Sgblogconspiracy? Don't be fooled by the infantile meme
Again, I interrupt my hiatus to address this latest, ridiculous meme from mrbrown. Act like so funny, "Wait. Wait. Stomach. Pain. Stomach. Pain. Ok. I'm ok, now", trying to make a joke out of this whole thing, wishing, for course, for people to brush it off.I can't believe how many people are falling for this. Haven't watched Star Wars III people, still can forgive. Those...
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