Year: 2014
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Don’t Be A WTF Wendy
So I saw this poster at Orchard MRT station: And I thought it was a great campaign to make people more aware of their behaviour on public transport. There’s even a “Stand-Up Stacey”, exhorting people to er… stand up when they’re supposed to, I suppose. But then, this LTA campaign should also include negatives, and…
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Robo-cutter To Change Landscaping Landscape
I was invited to check out a demonstration of this machine called the “Robo-Cutter” and I got really excited because, WTF, it’s a robot that cuts grass, right? No it wasn’t what I expected – there wasn’t any artificial intelligence about it, and it couldn’t deploy itself automatically where it sensed the grass was tall.…
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My Paperless Pledge
Not too long ago, I instituted a paperless policy for my office – I have another hat I wear as a start-up and company consultant – where, as far as possible, I’d force my clients to go paperless as well. There is no reason to get something printed out on paper when the electronic version…
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My Birthday Wish? A Sea Of Tranquility
When I was in kindergarten, I told my friends I was born on the moon, because I was confused by what my mother and relatives told me. The Apollo 11 mission had landed on the moon about three hours after I was born, and the excitement was such that my mother said she was asked…
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And Tango Makes A Fascist Chief Librarian
And Tango Makes Three and The White Swan Express were taken off the shelves by The Chief Librarian Tay Ai Cheng because they were not “pro-family”, which is now the same thing as anti-gay and anti anything other than “1 father + 1 mother + 3 or more children (if you can afford it)”, as…