Cheap Thrills
12 Oct
# “Your photo”:http://flickr.com/photos/skinnylatte/230303799/ shares the top banner rotation space with 10 other photos at the “Flickr Nokia”:http://flickr.com/nokia site. Sometimes I feel like Nokia’s whore. (Watch “this space”:http://sharewhatyousee.nokia-asia.com/, where yours truly’s mug and video will grace those screens.)
# Giggling at the digs we take at Gong Li in “our little parody”:http://www.mrbrownshow.com/?p=349.
# On the front page of the Straits Times today, the Indonesian President says Indonesia “did not intend to cause the haze”. Well duh.
# I wish I went to a “School of the Future”:http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/234831/1/.html. I don’t recognize my Ministry of Education anymore. First, they scrap that ahem, popular programme for the Gifted. Then they take away EM3. Where’s my hardline, run-by- ex-Brigadier-General Minister, and my Creative-Thinking- Through-Creative-Thinking- Classes (On Saturdays, Because We Can’t Eat into Regular School Time) Ministry of Education? In my time I had to fight for my right to use my “Palm III”:http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/palm_iii_review and Psion Revo in school, because I argued they were educational tools too (the “Palmasutra”:http://www.palmasutra.org/eng/, in monochrome, notwithstanding). Now my Ministry of Education is talking about immersing our students in Second Life? What’s next? _Hua Yu Cool!_ Oh wait, “we already have that”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=myqyKZsknmw. _Hua yu hao cool!_
# What if the US President was black — and was Dave Chappelle: who said anything about oil bitch, you cookin?
# Steve “Developers, Developers!” Ballmer: “Guys who can touch us in multiple places probably matter more than guys who can touch us in any one place.” Umm.

