Like so many others I’ve drank the Kool-Aid, and have bought into “Web 2.0”. I’ve duly signed up to be in the mailing pool hankering after the exclusive beta invites. I’ve bought all the hype and spin. “Social”, “AJAX”, RoR, tagsonomy, make me so excited that I’ve unwillingly allowed them to spill over into real [...]

I’ve been out of touch with “blogosphere” (this word always looks like BLOBosphere” to me), playing the good student and preparing for my midterms for once. Despite not having anything to say on the recent “students who flamed teachers got into trouble” issue, other than “I’m so tired of BIRLC”, my interest was aroused when [...]

Q: What do you get when two of your favourite indie artistes collaborate? A: Seven fantastic songs. 27 minutes of bliss. You start humming, walking with a spring in your step. Nothing can go wrong today. The stars have aligned in the galaxies, and all is right with the world. Every track on this album brings out [...]

Babylon Barracks – “the most innovative Gay hotel-accommodations in the world!” (sic) With a loaded name like that, and its being in Bangkok, what’s there not to like? Prices start from 1404 baht (S$57). Key words suggesting target audience is gay males: “Babylon”, “Barracks”, “Bangkok”, “sauna”, “gym” and message in the footer, “All You Hot Men! [...]

In the last couple of days, one hardcore smoker after the next around me – all friends of mine, naturally – have renounced smoking. Why this, why now, and why so many of them at the same time? I didn’t think it had anything to do with the increasingly influential anti-smoking camp, though I couldn’t think [...]

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Jen Sincero sold her book – The Straight Girls’ Guide To Sleeping With Chicks – to Simon and Schuster even before a single word was written. Next spring there’ll be a book called Same Sex in the City: So Your Prince Charming Is Really a Cinderella. Now will you excuse me – I have very good reason [...]

My line would have to be, Blahblahblah Apple very good leh. /mundane *** But hey, there’s really nothing else there is to life than Macs, women and whiskey, and so it shows here. I’m sorry I don’t hold much appeal for Windows-only heterosexual women (though I’m perfectly happy not to), and that we’re not literary geniuses. But then [...]

Part 1 With the recent proliferation of Macs on campus – both in my school and elsewhere (I know this as I’ve sold quite a number to students of the latter category), I keep getting asked for tips and ideas on how to make it “even cooler”. Even back in my PC-weenie days I’d always been [...]

I’m not usually a morbid person. I hardly think about death, if at all. Or suicide. But there is something about being an undergraduate that makes you think about it all the time. If not from the stress (and no, stress never gets to me) – then from the profound idiocy we see around us. Death [...]