Closure of this blog
Yeah, pretty much self-explanatory. This blog is now closed. I'll only be posting comments here, the tagboard or the last post to tie up loose ends, and I expect to be out of the blogosphere by the end of the week.
This isn't a last minute decision but something I've considered for
weeks, even months. For a long while now, my heart simply hasn't been
in it. I had a long chat with KTM over it and he reminded me at the
end of the day to ask myself - what am I doing this for? And more often
than not these days I find myself unable to answer that question.
Once I did this because I...
Amara Tochi to be Hung at Dawn
"'We must make exampies. By the sight of the fate inflicted on criminals, we must shock those who might otherwise beterupted to imitate them!' Well; in the first place we deny, the power of the example. We deny, that the sight of executions produces the desired effect. Far from edifying the common people, it demoralizes and ruins their feeling, injuring every virtue...
If, notwithstanding all experience, you still hold to the theory of example, then give us back the Sixteenth Century; be in reality formidable: restore to us a variety of suffering; restore us, Farinacci; restore us the...
Just a Lil Note
There was no censorship on the BlogTV episode aired tonight despite the fact that we touched on some sensitive issues such as opposition parties and new media, the question of whether or not BG Yeo is simply reiterating the party manifesto on his blog, and whether or not we can trust politicians if they act one way in private and another in public. I hope this helps in some way to ease the paranoia people have about every single media release in Singapore. I think May 2006 brought out the ugliest in the mainstream media but it is not monolithic and there are some people who are...
Would-be ST Article
I did an interview with Ken Kwek of the Straits Times towards the end of last year I believe, which was meant to be used for one of the Friday People & Politics sections. Ken e-mailed me yesterday to tell me that editorial decisions had left the article out, citing space constraints. He also enclosed the article within the e-mail and graciously permitted it to be published here as well.
In my personal capacity I can only speculate as to why it had been left out -- time constraints perhaps, but also perhaps because it was too racy. Those of you who read about my experience...
