Cheap Thrills
October 12th, 2006 | Published in general | 6 Comments
- Your photo shares the top banner rotation space with 10 other photos at the Flickr Nokia site. Sometimes I feel like Nokia’s whore. (Watch this space, where yours truly’s mug and video will grace those screens.)
- Giggling at the digs we take at Gong Li in our little parody.
- 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. 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 and Psion Revo in school, because I argued they were educational tools too (the Palmasutra, 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. 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.
October 12th, 2006 at 5:29 pm (#)
There’s been a book about a black president before. It’s a good read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_%28book%29
October 12th, 2006 at 6:54 pm (#)
sometimes?
and i remember those times… the Geography HOD would come over to my desk while i was scribbling Geog notes into my Palm IIIe, look at my stylus moving across the Graffiti area and say, ‘I don’t see you writing anything. You’re not taking notes, are you. Don’t make me confiscate that.’
October 12th, 2006 at 7:02 pm (#)
Well, I would be Nokia’s whore if they were actually paying me.
Haha. Try explaining ‘graffiti’ to a Geography HOD. They’d think ‘crime’ instead of ‘writing input method’.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:30 pm (#)
i did try. she just shook her head and went back to the OHP. i was like, three paragraphs behind because she interrupted my note-taking.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:57 pm (#)
Dave Chappelle!
By the way the Black Bush sketch you linked to isn’t complete. The full one is about seven minutes long, and has bits about gay marriage and the space programme at the end.
October 13th, 2006 at 5:40 pm (#)
oh, and hi? they paid you. in kind.