More 377A shit.

It is only in Singapore that you would get politicians openly and aggressively displaying their homophobia. In more progressive countries, people don’t even dare glance a second longer than necessary at gay couples for fear of being labeled homophobic. Indeed, even on the streets of Singapore this is so – especially along Orchard Road.
It [...]

On the differing viewpoints of the co-founders of Wikipedia

WARNING. THIS IS NOT EDITED, VERY LONG, AND PROBABLY VERY WHINY.
A feeble attempt has been made to edit this. It is so. long. So so long.
I was reading the article More than just a war on words in SMH earlier today which was about Wikipedia and how on one hand, it was doing [...]

If you were planning on buying Freakonomics, STOP!

Buy The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford instead.
To put it simply, the big difference between the 2 books is that while a Freakonomics reader might be able to provide marvelously entertaining stories and facts to tell at a dinner party, he or she will be stumped the moment someone asks, “why?”.
Which is when you, as [...]

Person of the year.

I propose Masha the bear as 2007’s “Person of the Year”. A resident of the zoo in Yaroslavi, a city 240km north-east of Moscow, Masha woke up within a week of beginning his winter hibernation last November. The usually artic Russian winter had turned into a barmy midwinter spring.
A bear cannot be “Person of the [...]

On CDs and Singapore’s accounting environment

Argh. It’s stressful when I’ve not only got loads of work that I’ve yet to do, but loads of things that I’ve yet to blog about!
I still have yet to blog about my fantastic weekend where I went to Supermodels, Fiesta and Chalk the Walk. Perhaps I’ll never get around to blogging about it. Hrrmmm. [...]

Dorky shit

I’m turning into such a dork. But I guess it’s a good thing cause at least it means I’m enjoying my subjects! Which, by the way, has absolutely no correlation with the actual marks I’m going to get.
I actually think it’s damn interesting that if businesses start having a more cooperative attitude towards each other [...]

Stupid industrial relations

Today I was floored by this question: “So, what do you think?”
Towards the end of lunch, which we unoriginally had at Thai La-ong, Pam and I got into a discussion regarding the current IR laws in Australia (don’t be too impressed, the only reason I know anything about it is because I’m doing a unit [...]

Accidental propaganda

I think the whole “timing-out” thing that constantly happens to me when I take to long to blog is actually a good thing. Like how I unintentially just wrote a ridiculously long pro-government piece of propaganda and it timed out on me.
Anyway, I was basically saying that who constantly complain about Singapore not having [...]