Continuation
So, it's time to pick up from where I left off this morning. Before I continue, allow me to complain. It was frustrating to try to use the Internet for the last hour. Why? Mainly because I could connect to the ISP but apart from that, there's nothing else I can do. Web pages time out and nothing is displayed, except for the default error message.
I had wanted to call up the tech support and rail at the unfortunate person who picks up my call but I decided to give it one last shot before calling. And hey presto! Everything is fine. Except that my surfing speed is at a fraction of its usual pace. But I'm fine with that; you should have seen how things were when I was using a dialup 28.8 modem back then.
Anyway, speaking of complaints, I noticed that the quality of the readers' letters in the local papers, specifically The Straits Times, has gone down quite a bit. Apparently, either the editors are not doing their job at auditing the right letters to publish or the readers are contributing far too much junk. Trivial matters such as complaint letters actually make it into the national papers. Do you believe it? And I thought that the papers is supposed to provide a channel for proper issues to be discussed. DUH! How disillusioned I was! How naive I was! OK, so what constitutes "proper issues"? What I mean is things that can potentially affect the rest of us, negatively or positively, and not just some personal encounters with unruly staff or whatsoever.
Thus, I decided to highlight some of the readers' letters that I find boring, silly or just plain stupid here on my blog. Perhaps it would be a good idea to start an entirely new blog for this, as I foresee a deluge of letters that I'll be posting here. But truth to be told, I haven't really got a good name in mind yet, so I'll just keep them here for the time being.
Next up, Barnyard. I caught the movie over the weekend on Saturday afternoon. It has pretty decent animation and original characters. The storyline was quite predictable but considering that it's a kids show, I guess they have to make it easier for the kids to follow. My only gripe that I have is the misrepresentation of facts; not in the legal mumbo jumbo but in layman terms. The cattle that were portrayed all had udders, regardless of gender. Now we all know that udders are exclusive to cows and not the bulls but apparently, the bulls in the movie somehow had udders transplanted onto them. Perhaps it is easier for the kids to identify with a bull with udders than a bull with a "bullwhip" sticking out, if you know what I mean.
So like, correct your kids' perceptions and bring them to see a real life cow and bull someday. Then again, it can be argued that cattle are never really conversant with English in real life, so what's wrong with a bull having udders in a movie? Absolutely right. The argument can go both ways; it depends on how you want to see it.
Next up, Army ads and reservist. Actually, I wanted to talk about the latest advertising campaign by the SAF featuring some new slogan and taglines. But I figured, it's just going to be another fad, why waste time and Blogger's server space for it? Moving along, reservist issues. No, not me but a fellow Singaporean who has been caught in a sticky spot. Read more about it in the next post.
Last point, Big Brother. Remember a few posts ago I put up pictures of survelliance cameras at the lift landing? To my surprise, this sort of Big Brother activity has its roots way back in the 80s. I happen to come across this interesting article so I shall share it with everyone. Click on the image below to view the full size.
I would love to host it on Blogger but somehow I cannot seem to upload pictures, so Imageshack became an alternative. This pretty much wraps up everything I said I wanted to do.
I had wanted to call up the tech support and rail at the unfortunate person who picks up my call but I decided to give it one last shot before calling. And hey presto! Everything is fine. Except that my surfing speed is at a fraction of its usual pace. But I'm fine with that; you should have seen how things were when I was using a dialup 28.8 modem back then.
Anyway, speaking of complaints, I noticed that the quality of the readers' letters in the local papers, specifically The Straits Times, has gone down quite a bit. Apparently, either the editors are not doing their job at auditing the right letters to publish or the readers are contributing far too much junk. Trivial matters such as complaint letters actually make it into the national papers. Do you believe it? And I thought that the papers is supposed to provide a channel for proper issues to be discussed. DUH! How disillusioned I was! How naive I was! OK, so what constitutes "proper issues"? What I mean is things that can potentially affect the rest of us, negatively or positively, and not just some personal encounters with unruly staff or whatsoever.
Thus, I decided to highlight some of the readers' letters that I find boring, silly or just plain stupid here on my blog. Perhaps it would be a good idea to start an entirely new blog for this, as I foresee a deluge of letters that I'll be posting here. But truth to be told, I haven't really got a good name in mind yet, so I'll just keep them here for the time being.
Next up, Barnyard. I caught the movie over the weekend on Saturday afternoon. It has pretty decent animation and original characters. The storyline was quite predictable but considering that it's a kids show, I guess they have to make it easier for the kids to follow. My only gripe that I have is the misrepresentation of facts; not in the legal mumbo jumbo but in layman terms. The cattle that were portrayed all had udders, regardless of gender. Now we all know that udders are exclusive to cows and not the bulls but apparently, the bulls in the movie somehow had udders transplanted onto them. Perhaps it is easier for the kids to identify with a bull with udders than a bull with a "bullwhip" sticking out, if you know what I mean.
So like, correct your kids' perceptions and bring them to see a real life cow and bull someday. Then again, it can be argued that cattle are never really conversant with English in real life, so what's wrong with a bull having udders in a movie? Absolutely right. The argument can go both ways; it depends on how you want to see it.
Next up, Army ads and reservist. Actually, I wanted to talk about the latest advertising campaign by the SAF featuring some new slogan and taglines. But I figured, it's just going to be another fad, why waste time and Blogger's server space for it? Moving along, reservist issues. No, not me but a fellow Singaporean who has been caught in a sticky spot. Read more about it in the next post.
Last point, Big Brother. Remember a few posts ago I put up pictures of survelliance cameras at the lift landing? To my surprise, this sort of Big Brother activity has its roots way back in the 80s. I happen to come across this interesting article so I shall share it with everyone. Click on the image below to view the full size.
I would love to host it on Blogger but somehow I cannot seem to upload pictures, so Imageshack became an alternative. This pretty much wraps up everything I said I wanted to do.
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