Category: Media
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Mediacorp’s Shameful Advertising Lorry
In this day and age! Seriously, the LTA should ban Mediacorp, or more precisely, Mediacorp’s subsidiary, OOH, (another forced acronym) from owning vehicles. I get that you can use ad space on buses, MRT trains and taxis. But to use a lorry just to carry a billboard around our already jam-packed roads during f**king peak…
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S.U.R.E. Or Not?
Last Thursday was S.U.R.E. Day, an event held at the NLB to highlight a campaign for information literacy. The key speaker, Dr Carl Schoonover (author of ‘Portraits of the Mind’), gave an enlightening talk about neuroscience, perception and evaluation. There was also sambal fishball, mee goreng, curry puffs catered. What mrbrown and myself were quite…
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Remembering The Recipe
Last month I attended the premiere of the telemovie “Recipe”, commissioned by HPB, directed by Eric Khoo, starring Zoe Tay and aired on Mediacorp Channel 8 on 29 September 2013. As I’ve mentioned previously, the movie deals with dementia, and the topic was handled as sensitively as possible, and made for a good 40 minutes’…
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Choom Choom!
It’s been a very rough month so far, and I’m not in a position to elaborate further as to why. Just know that unreasonable people are involved, light will be shed soon, and the same said unreasonable people will have their comeuppance. Meanwhile, there are ways to raise one’s spirit. Unfortunately, Naomi has warned me…