Month: May 2005
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Quite contrary
When your opinion is contrary to a newspaper reporter’s angle on a story she’s doing, there’s a high chance your opinion won’t be seen in print: Hi Mr Lee, I’m doing an article on the influence of local bloggers and I just have a few questions. Local bloggers like yourself, mrbrown and Wendy Cheng are…
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Song to the moon
When I used to get all bogged down with dunnowhat, I’d drive to listen to the waves crash on the rocks, accompanied by Dvorak’s Song to the Moon, from the opera Rusalka. But it’s a long way from Clovelly, and East Coast Park just doesn’t do quite the same thing, so what’s a feller to…
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We own this language and it owns us back
Aunty Lilly got all excited on Sunday and yelled up and down the terrace house, waking Uncle Albert and my cousins with: Ben’s face come out newspaper! Ben’s face come out newspaper! Ben’s face come out newspaper! My grumpy cousins grunted their replies, hoping she’d leave them alone so they could go back to sleep.…
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Makin’ the Sunday Times
Blogs are come alive everywhere, crawling off the primordial cybersoup and onto dry paper: Story about Tomorrow.sg and the Blogger Conference, Sunday Times p38. The Email Interview, Sunday Times p40. And not forgetting this week’s Hot Blog: my name is faith iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Want a Little Sugar in My…
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Mr Miyagi makes the sports pages
It’s not every day you get featured in the sports pages of the newspaper. Unless of course you’re a sportsperson. Or someone who’s just lost a lot of money betting on soccer. Heck, I don’t even blog about sports. So that’s really a first. Stevie Wonder talks about Singapore politicians Surf stop: wuyuetian iTunes’ party…