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SUSSEQUENLEE

Fri, 16 Nov 2012

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If you haven’t already heard the magic that is “SUSSEQUENLEE”, go and listen to it now:

Here’s the link in case you can’t see the embedded sound file.

And the transcribed lyrics:

Sussequenlee
by Melissa Theresa and The Frenzy

When I first met you
I thought: she’s pretty
And I got to know you
Subsequently

I said, “Hi I’m Charles.”
You said, “Chelsea here.”
Now we’ve been together
for almost a year

Subsequently (sic)
When will you revert (sic) back to me
Then we can liaise regarding about (sic) the matter

Subsequently (sic)
HDB flat apply already liao (sic)
Please double confirm (sic) or else we lost (sic) the house

Furthermore therefore (sic)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (Subsequently)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (Subsequently)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (However; How about it?) (sic)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (However; How about it?)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (However; How about it?)
Furthermore therefore
Please double confirm so we can solve (sic) it out…

etc.

(Hat-tip to PLS REVERT, TKS.)

Technology

Whatsapp and other Social Thingamajigs Adoption Cycle

Sun, 2 Sep 2012

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Back in 2007, there was a short period of time that my good friend Deputy Public Prosecutor Yang Ziliang tried to convince me to start using Facebook.

“It’s gonna be the new Friendster,” he said.

“What for?” I asked. “I’ve already got Friendster. I don’t need any other social thingamajig to complicate my life.”

“…”

For the record, I did start using Facebook some time thereafter.

I can’t remember why, but I suspect it was because all my friends had moved to Facebook and Friendster had become a ghost town.

Now it’s 2012 and I’m in a somewhat similar quandary.

It’s not that I don’t have a smartphone (although I bought mine some time after everyone else bought theirs so I guess the principle underscored by the graph above still applies).

It’s just that I was stubborn and purchased a Palm Pre because I’d been using Palm PDAs since 2003, and I was, like, brand loyalty and all that jazz.

Unfortunately, because (and, perhaps, even though I knew) Palm had been losing market share for some time, many apps were never developed for the WebOS platform and probably never will be.

One of these apps is Whatsapp.

I’ve known of Whatsapp’s existence for a while, but I never really realised what I’d been missing out on until the night before, when I hijacked my colleague’s phone and started messing around with Whatsapp.

And I was like: OH MY GOSH THIS IS SO FUN! THE LAST TIME I DID STUFF LIKE THAT WAS WHEN MSN WAS THE TOOL EVERYONE USED FOR CHAT AND…

…

So I’d like to announce that I’ll be getting a new phone when my mobile contract expires in three weeks’ time.

This phone will have Whatsapp support, and you will know this when you see the words “WHATSAPP ME” appearing everywhere as prominently as a Bat-Signal.

In the meantime, text me. Or call me. Maybe.

P.S. Mr Yang, if you’re reading this: I AM PUBLICLY CONSUMING HUMBLE PIE AND IT TASTES LIKE THAT PIG-BRAND CIDER WHICH YOU AND CORAL ALWAYS SERVE AT YOUR HOME.

POSKOD.SG: Ten Steps to Effective Online Commentary.

Tue, 20 Sep 2011

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My latest article on POSKOD.SG.

Ten Steps to Effective Online Commentary.
A guide to online criticism and debate. (Mostly criticism.)

So, you’ve got an Internet connection, an opinion and some spare time on your hands.

Congratulations! Like everyone else and their blogs, you are now a media hub.

Before you commence e-hurling your iNtellectualism @ the rest of the world, here are ten steps to effective online commentary, the cyber-Singaporean way.

Increase your Internet presence.Set up a website on socio-political issues in Singapore and give it a cerebral, subtle and unique moniker, something like Socially Political SG: Thinking About Socially Political in Singapore.What you have to say is, after all, very ‘niche’, and no one thinks about critical issues affecting our nation in as classy or as astute a manner as you do.

Read widely.Turn to Google and Wikipedia for all your edificatory needs.Besides being the only scholarly sources that can be found on the face of the earth, they are also the most reliable, according to teenage students who take a great deal of pride in referencing “en.wikipedia.org” and “ehow.com” in their homework submissions.

Participate in community discussions on a consistent basis.Trawl other websites and forums every hour and leave comments on other posts, regardless of whether or not your advice is sound and/or logical.Bear in mind that we are a democracy, and democracy, as translated from the Greek, means ‘many people shouting loudly at each other in a self-important fashion’.
Moreover, your counsel serves to affirm and validate the existence of ‘netizens’.

Never underestimate the value of this, even if netizens do not seem to mention their appreciation of your beneficence, or worse, if they seem to respond negatively to what you say.

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