miyagi.sg | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}

Last week was an impos­si­bly busy week which fin­ished with two con­sec­u­tive days of Writ­ers’ Fes­ti­val com­mit­ments. We’d have liked to have sat in for the com­edy writ­ing sem­i­nar and var­i­ous other events at the Fes­ti­val, but being par­tic­i­pants of the Fes­ti­val itself, we didn’t have the time to.

The brand-spanking new National Library is really some­thing though. I haven’t been to such a decent library in Sin­ga­pore, and I don’t believe there are any other libraries in the region that match up to this either. (Granted, one doesn’t go on hol­i­days to sit in libraries, but y’know?)

Tir­ing as the week might have been, I don’t think any of us would have traded our week­end in for any­thing else, though mrbrown kept ask­ing if we could pop by at COMEX dur­ing our break on Sat­ur­day. (To which I said, siao ah, so crowded, dowan!)

Our talks at the Fes­ti­val were fun to con­duct, and it was extremely grat­i­fy­ing to have been able to help inform non-bloggers of some of the non­sense things that blog­gers get up to — like post­ing funny pic­tures on Flickr, using Blog­lines to stalk peo­ple and search­ing Tech­no­rati to see if peo­ple are talk­ing behind our backs.

We also talked about the things we believed in — that the inter­net was invented in order that peo­ple could link to each other with­out ask­ing for per­mis­sion, that if you think your blog is pri­vate, you’re seri­ously deluded, and that you do not build com­mu­ni­ties with blogs, you just help com­mu­ni­ties com­mu­ni­cate better.

Spend­ing a lit­tle time with Cory Doc­torow was a high­light My brain is now quite full and I think we’ve got enough ideas to last us a cou­ple of months at least. It was also great talk­ing to peo­ple who attended our talks as well as at the ‘Blog­gers’ Net­work­ing Night’, at Rouge, which could have been slightly bet­ter. Per­haps waive the $15 cover charge. Per­haps if Rouge staff were a lit­tle faster with our drinks. Per­haps if we shot the house band that did their infer­nal noise check while we were there doing our net­work­ing thing. Yes, the damned gui­tars and drums work. Damn noisy, can?

OK, so now I’ve writ­ten a decent sized post about some decent event I attended, instead of, as a mem­ber of the audi­ence at the talk said, “…(Mr Miyagi and his) writ­ing about night life and chio bu pictures.”

But Xiaxue’s asked why she’s never been fea­tured as one of Mr Miyagi’s chio bu. No rea­son not to fea­ture, so here ’tis, Mr Miyagi’s chio bu of the week:

Xiaxue at the Writ­ers’ Fes­ti­val: “Even­tu­ally all things merge into one, and a river runs through it“

Surf stops:

• SWF Blog
• Flickr “sin­ga­porewrit­ers­fes­ti­val” tagged pictures
• Jeff Ooi’s men­tion of SWF on Global Voices

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of Thun­der­bird from the album “Mas­ter of Dis­as­ter” by John Hiatt of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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