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How did you feel when you first saw this image from the Haiti earthquake? Picture from AFP. Singaporeans have been grumbling online about the $50,000 that the Singapore government contributed to the Haiti relief efforts. I first found out about the grumbling from Mr Brown’s site. What surprised me was that the Straits Times’ Political Desk actually put forth a commentary [....] Continue reading What price pragmatism? Update 11 Jan 2010: Real artists painting over the “vandalized” postboxes. Picture from ST. Looks like SingPost did a nice turnaround by getting real (ie. talented) artists to paint over the “vandalized” postboxes (actually I should remove the apostrophes as I do consider the postboxes vandalized). From what the press says, this repaint is being managed by a different agency [....] Continue reading SingPost fiasco: where was the creativity? Some of you might remember Darren’s story which I wrote the night after he got married in Sep 2006. When I was a journo I asked Darren if I could write the newspaper story on him, but he was too shy. He’s not so shy now, and my dear ex-colleague Wan Ching finally did the deed a few days ago [....] Continue reading Darren’s Story Part II This is the third chapter of my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier”. This chapter deals with the harsh realities of being a critic, officially or not. In the army, I earned several nicknames. “King Kong” for being beefy right out of dragonboat training the year before. “Lt. Smallbutt” for having a skinny derriere under the [....] Continue reading Chapter 3: It’s not easy being a critic The Second Coming Of Digicams? Surely I jest. As my faithful readers would know, I’ve been a big fan of the Olympus E-P1 Pen camera since it was first released in Singapore early last month. It’s an amazing camera for what it is, and for its target market (which most people will never figure out, and more on [....] Continue reading Will the real photographers please stand up? While backing up my hard drive, I stumbled upon the following piece I wrote for The New Paper’s Tech section in 2005. I can’t remember if it was ever published, but it’s a fascinating look at how fast technology has moved in four years. Today, our smartphones are leaps and bounds beyond what was available back then, 3G has long [....] Continue reading Time Capsule 2005
True, people do tend to get set in their ways as they get older. Nobody is very surprised when somebody retiring in two years says, "I’m too old. I can’t learn new things." Does that mean the person can’t do anything any more? I don’t think so. The person can transfer wisdom, based on personal experience, to younger people, [....] Continue reading An interview with Stringer
I’ve been quietly observing the whole blogging scene for the past few years. First as part of the old media (or mainstream media, whatever you may call it), and now as a PR guy on the other side of the fence. And through it all, as a “blogger” myself with my own website and constant flow of entries outside [....] Continue reading Don’t blog. Communicate. |
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