Archive for January 13th, 2006

• Friday, January 13th, 2006

BLOGOCIRCUS EPISODE #2

Madness.

I slept at 7am and woke up at 8.30pm.

Now, if I sleep at 12 pm and wake up at 8pm, and if I sleep at 7am and I still wake up at 8pm, then I should perhaps sleep at 12pm, no?

Gee.

Not that it matters. That is just…. unreasonable reasoning on my part.

Actually, the new development to the saga was probably no new news.

A new update to the love site (since they insist it wasn’t meant to be hate site, nor did they mention anybody’s name) for someone else who doesn’t like her stated that it was never meant to be a hatesite, because it was never meant to be publicised, so ah well.

But it was rather odd to see:

Too bad, someone was vain enough to search for his own nickname, and found this page.

Ai yoo, who doesn’t search for own nickname? I do, but I realised Ting is too common and I gave up.

So don’t tell any people that I tried ‘Joewei’ and ‘Scarlett Ting’ nonetheless.

And from what I know, someone has(or maybe, had) the habit of doing so, too.

I also don’t know why so many people commented on my last post, cos it was never meant to be *ahem* public, you see.

I only have like a few comments for each post, and I would expect only that much people reading me, you see.

Anyway, in the latest news, Tomorrow.sg’s credibility has been put to the test too.

So, the most known blogger(someone)’s credibility is heavily doubted, after how she attacked hate site owners(then again, it wasn’t meant to be a hate site), and it was smoothed out by her retort.

Cool.

But now, Tomorrow.sg is being hacked!

Or so we thought.

The article was published on tomorrow.sg, but it magically disappeared sometime after.

And, an editor had once emailed a friend:

… because once something is published, we do not take it offline. And neither do any of the other sites like Boing Boing, Sintercom, Metafiler etc. That’s our rule and policy. And it’s a tried and proven method for credibility and integrity.

You can’t make all of the people happy all of time, but you can make most of the people happy most of the time. You are not new to blogging - never put something terribly personal out in public unless you are prepared to face the consequences.

But but but!

The article was removed thereafter!

So the site must have been hacked, as suggested by FF!

So, does this incident of removing the said article a proven method for credibility and integrity?

Hehehe, *sniggers* you decide.

Very credible and so much integrity, indeed.

Oh, oh, I am not saying that they are not credible cos they removed the post, cos they couldn’t possibly have.

I am just saying if the site was hacked, thn what if those hackers get access to my password and emails and such?

So it’s just the credibility of the security I am worried about.

Really.

Honest.

Just believe me, will ya, you morons.

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Apparently, editors in tomorrow.sg have different standards and protocols when it comes to their censoring rights.

I guess they don’t have much shared visions, and it confuses bimbos like me.

Somewhere, they said:

Censorship of relevant comments/trackbacks is not practised/endorsed by all editors.

Somewhere else, they said:

I don’t see why we should promote a site which propagates hate, and includes copyrighted photos of myself photoshopped with cum on my face.

Not only me… Of SXG, of XXXXX Sia… and some others.

Do you?

Fuck freedom of speech - such websites should never have seen the light of day.

:) Please put yourself in my shoes - if you were me, would you allow the trackback of this website? Speak reason.

So I guess, the task of speaking reason should be thrown to Agagooga, since he was the one who claimed that.

Hmm, perhaps you guys could discuss it amongst yourselves and then come to a conclusion?

Make up your minds, will ya?

A magnificent lesson learnt on credibility and integrity.

Or maybe like Mr Brown’s latest article in Today(excerpt):

… Recently, billionaire George Soros commented: “Singapore does not qualify as an open society”.

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To which a Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts spokesman said: “If we were not an open society, George Soros would hardly be able to make the comment at an open forum in Singapore, and be reported in the Singapore media.”

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Ya lor, Mr Soros, we are quite an open society here in Singapore, really. Sure, we can say things quite freely. I can even say that a politician like Mr (bleep) of the (bleep) party looks like a giant (bleep) and smells like (bleep).

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Besides, I recall most Singaporeans filled in the application forms to become an open society and we meet all the necessary criteria to be responsibly open. Don’t want no irresponsible openness here, you know?

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I hear next month, we will be issued the “Singapore is Open OK” stickers to paste everywhere there is a wall.

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After all, you must remember our unique circumstances and our fragile society and the fault lines. We cannot have any old kind of Openness that can jeopardise the community.

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But do not worry too much, we are currently looking into including “How to be an Open Society” into the school curriculum.

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Scholars who get good grades for Responsible Openness (additional marks to be given to those who do not get sued) will be considered for fast track careers in the new Ministry of Open Society, or MOS.

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This is not to be confused with the new Ministry of Sound. That one is a disco, not a real ministry.

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Singaporeans should not send their application forms to the Ministry of Sound to apply for permission to speak. Those forms should be sent to the relevant government ministry or nearest police post.


Er, so where is the nearest police post of Tomorrow.sg ah? Or the email addresses of the individual editors ministries?

Maybe write to different ministries better, some may have different protocols.

** I would like to put up a disclaimer, too. That my post is to be taken with a pinch of salt, a hint of sugar, and a dash of vinegar.

But, er, I haven’t decide what I want yet, so before I make up my mind, that have to wait.

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