Invitationally.

Was very surprised to see this in the mail. For one, I didn’t know who it was from – the red envelope didn’t give away much in terms of information. For another, it had originally been posted to the W!ld Rice office – which kukubird would think I live there!, was my original musing.

The only possible give-away about where the envelope had originated from was the redirection of the envelope from the office to my home address (blurred for privacy). But even that didn’t say much, so I decided to give up deconstructing the envelope and its contents, and opened it to find…

…my invite to the 9th Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2009. Sweet.

But it’s a pity cos I can’t go for it; even though I normally have work then, I’ll be undergoing minor surgery on that day and at that time, hence my no-show.

Undergrads kicked out of hostel for streaking.

Hostel residents: Others have run naked before.

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By the way, I may have been the one (or at the very least, one of the people) who provided the tip-off about the story… And believe it or not, it was through Twitter. Here’s the chronology of tweets with some background information:

I posted these, and other ‘web’ tweets using tweet.sg when I returned to NUS for the India Trip exhibition thingy.

I learnt about the expulsion from Zee, who was “one of the KR guys” I met. I’m not going to comment too much on the punishment, but let’s just say that I believe it’s a fallacy for every action to deserve a punitive reaction, especially one of this measure.

It took a sharp-eyed journo who’s very in tune with the workings of social media to spot my Tweet, and before long, the reporters were on their way.

So ladies and gentlemen, if you ever need an example about how collaborative Web 2.0 technologies are, and the potential for these technologies, here’s a classic one for you. Cheers, and have a great weekend.

P.S. My reply: