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Stephen Gately And The Power Of Twitter

October 17, 2009 in Current Affairs | No comments

The past two days clearly demonstrated to me the influence of Twitter.

Jan Moir wrote an article for the Daily Mail on the death of Stephen Gately. The former Boyzone member had died in his sleep, and basically she was bashing him because he was gay. The article was originally titled, ‘Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death.’, but has since been changed to ‘A strange, lonely and troubling death.’

It was picked up by Stephen Fry, with a huge Twitter following. And before long, it received worldwide attention. So much so that Moir had to issue a statement to say that she was the target of an orchestrated campaign. Ads were withdraw from Moir’s online article and more than 1,000 complains were lodged with the Press Complaints Commission.

Such is the impact of Twitter.

Discrimination Against Singaporeans In Singapore

October 9, 2009 in Current Affairs | No comments

Singaporeans need not apply for this job in Singapore.

And in case it has been taken down, here is the screenshot:

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Tags: discrimination

Doom!

March 3, 2009 in Current Affairs | No comments

Everyday I read the news, I see more bad news. HSBC cutting 6,100 jobs. American International Group reports a fourth quarter loss of US$61.1B, the largest ever in corporate history. Dow Jones fell below 7,000 for the first time since 1997.

And we thought it could not get worst.

And the cause of all this? Greed. Gordon Gekko was so wrong when he said, ‘Greed is good.’.

Can I survive through this? Will I still have a job? How long will this last? How many more companies will fail? Will there be even more bad news? Have we hit the bottom? Or are we just free falling in a bottomless pit?

There is no end in sight.

Tags: economy, world

How Is This For A Name?

February 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | No comments

The newly appointed Germany Minister of Economic Affairs, has the official name

‘Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg’.

Or just ‘Mr. von und zu Guttenberg‘.

Tags: name

Election Is Near?

January 23, 2009 in Current Affairs | No comments

After the big mass orgy that arose from the Minister’s speech on raising GST in order to cater for free public transport, the Public Transport Council is looking at reducing the public transport fares.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/404406/1/.html

So, with the recent Budget and this, is the election near?

Tags: Current Affairs, election, transport

Technical Recession

October 10, 2008 in Current Affairs | No comments

Now that Singapore has moved into its first recession since 2002, can the Government bring down the transport costs, which was raised recently, and the utilities bill, which was raised just last month?

Tags: Current Affairs

Left Pocket In, Right Pocket Out

September 29, 2008 in Current Affairs | No comments

So I just got my Growth Dividends from the Government, and then almost immediately, I have to come out all of it and more back to the Government.

Tags: government, politics

Dungeons and Dragons Are For

September 26, 2008 in Current Affairs, Interests and Hobbies | No comments

Democrats?

Official response from WoTC

And then the apology.

Tags: dnd, politics

Today Current Affairs’ Thoughts

September 21, 2008 in Current Affairs | No comments

Decided to start a regular post about my thoughts on today’s current affairs, putting it down in a few liners.

Pakistan Suicide Bombing – Who in their right mind will even think of doing this, let alone actually doing it?

China Tainted Milk – Who in their right mind will add chemicals to milk, knowing that children and babies are the ones who consume lots of it? It seems like people are willing to do anything when they are consumed by greed. Coincidence that this was only revealed after the Olympics?

Race for Japan’s new PM – In a country that changes its PM more often than some Italian football teams changes their manager, I wonder if anyone thinks it will be a headache trying to pronounce this politican’s name if he ever gets to be Japan’s new PM.