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Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 - 21:18 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Side Write

Discovered just how important having a fan on at full tilt is. Moving air is so conducive. Also, the old trick to writing - just scribble anything... and more of it.

Another slow week of changelessness, up top at least, but I'm unsure which takes the top prize: Contender Number One, Singaporeans getting chided for not being globally-aware, because the Kenyan terrorist situation didn't make it to the headlines - hello, isn't this down to The State's Times' "good news" editors? I suppose it's our responsibility to write angry letters to press for international coverage now.

A close contender would be their sudden pallying up to Aung San Suu Kyi, likely as she stands a good chance to be the next one in charge, in line with the regional swing towards Opposition parties. They weren't joking with the "no permanent friends, only permanent interests" bit... but wait, England and America invented it first? Okay then.

The other top development was the Ministry of Manpower announcing a Fair Consideration Framework, which turns out upon closer inspection to be a shiny new website (waitamin, didn't the SDP propose that not too long ago?)... and that's it. Yes, really, there's no muscle at all behind the move, which amounts to asking employers to consider the framework (but never mind if you don't *wink*). With the tap for cheap exploitable labour kept wide open, no wonder they're happy!

Good news is, they're at least patching the demographics more directly, and our elderly folk are being very sprightly.

Fine, it's not as if the alternative media are angels either, with the wheat often mixed with senseless torches and pitchforks, like when a secondary school boy got slammed for his observations, which were hardly even provocative, unlike with some past controversies. Push to nuture all-round students? It may take some time...

Over to tech, the iPhone 5S, which was touted to be severed-finger proof, seems to have been defeated by sticky tape (fingerprints available on the screen). Another timely reminder that cheem-er algorithms isn't always the answer, especially when the No. 1 point of failure is gullible users.

Oh, and a bunny with squirrel.



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