A bit late, like Channel NewsAsia, but Happy 21st, Wendy Cheng!

We wuz honoured to be invited to Xiaxue’s 21st birthday party at Changi last last week, and I even got to wear her tiara. Queen for the night. Doesn’t get any better than this, this blogging life. By the time we got there, the birthday girl had turned 21, washed her makeup off with tears […]

They really mean it when they say ‘this is the late news’

For bloggers who kenah asked to take down more than 10 posts Over at our regional (and some say almost global) news network, a story broke yesterday about A-asterix-STAR sending a warning letter to a student. On Wednesday, Channel NewsAsia broke a story about how the Singapore student, who is pursuing his Masters degree in […]

I am a weenner!

I’m a poster boy for Reservist duty! Whaddya know? They ran my dulce et decorum est pro patria mori story on the National Servicemen’s website (MIW – Mindef Internet World). Last month, I submitted one of my old posts from here as an entry in a contest organized by them. I was hoping for a […]

Straits Times does Tomorrow.sg

A flurry of emails and phone calls and the press room at Tomorrow.sg has been buzzing. Yes. Two weeks after launch and Tomorrow’s scored it’s first press engagement. A very funny photoshoot took place at Boat Quay earlier this evening, where the ST photographer made mr brown, myself (representing the Editors at Large) and Adrian […]

More MSM (Main Stream Media)

Some CNA producer thought it’d be a good idea to use a self-confessed (no need lah) technophobe to host a show about technology, presumably so that it’d be easy on tech-illiterate viewers. But then they got to see this on Monday night’s show about blogs and podcasting, so I don’t know how easy it was. […]