Hatebook

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Hatebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE. The Facebook parody provides (temporary) misanthropes with a place to air grievances about everything they hate. Surprisingly, I came across references to this site reading the Chinese magazine, Yazhouzhoukan (亚洲周刊).

If you need to learn some English vulgarities / profanities, this is definitely the site for you. Listed on the front page of the site, are the following ‘services’ which will be provided to you after you sign up:

  • Upload blackmail material or publish lies – Got a Tammy video of your enemy you wanna upload?

  • Get the latest gossip from your enemies and friends – Now you can tell the world just what you think about that arsehxle in public with nothing to fear!

  • Post photos and videos on your hate profile – Parodies of another person’s favorite video, anyone?

  • Tag your friends – What? You actually have friends on Hatebook and they haven’t yet backstabbed you?

  • Get hate points from disturbing people who live, study, or work around you – Polite hatred at its best!

  • Take over the world – Every geeks’ secret dream!

And if you need to know more, you can read more about it here.

So, just why am I talking about Hatebook now? Because:

  1. I am kriffing sick of everyone asking me if I use Facebook. It doesn’t make one a caveman simply because he doesn’t use it.

  2. I am kriffing sick of the hype. As if the iPod, iPhone, iMac hype from MacFreaks and Apple-cum-Jobs ball-lickers aren’t bad enough already? Frankly, Facebook will be just that ‘best thing’ until the next one comes around. Consider what had gone before… Friendster, Hi5, Wayn, Tagged… * yawn *

  3. It’s kriffing irritating when you play your blasted Facebook games inside it and then talk about it on MSN or the ping.sg shoutbox.

Damn, on second thoughts, maybe I should really sign up to Hatebook. Perhaps I can even find some ‘friends’ who all hate Xiasuay and do some communal flaming together without smearing my blog with that accursed name…

William Hung is NOT dead

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I am so amused when I see two posts on the ping.sg top 10 saying that William Hung has died. But apparently, that is ‘old news’. The word for it is a hoax according to this. And it is a hoax (or ‘broken news’) that is almost 3 years old. Just where did these people dig up this old fossil? Frankly, would you not have seen it on CNN or even our evening Chinese tabloids by now if such a thing is even true?

I have posted the link from Snopes to both blogs and obviously one of the bloggers who posted this misinformation considered my comment – William Hung is about as dead as George W. Bush – too offensive to pass his moderation standards or he is doing some verification on his own.

Is it a wonder why most people does not consider blogs a worthy source of news and information on the Internet? The reason is obvious when people simply just try to get more attention and visitors to their blogs by posting things that would scream * click me * (which looked like ‘dick me’), but none of them has spent even the minimum effort to do some verification to confirm the truthfulness of the information they are posting! However, I would applaud those who have the common courtesy and responsibility to allow the counter-information to be published so their readers can make an informed decision on what they are reading.

For goodness sake (and I will say this again and again like a broken record), there are enough written material on the Internet to verify if such things are true when you care to look (or when you looked hard enough). Please, verify what you post and don’t spread misinformation!!

And if you are posting something in jest, leave a disclaimer or something so your readers are aware before they get infected by a variant of the ‘forward this to all your friends’ email virus which compels them to send it to everyone on their contact list. After all, a lot of other people also never bother to verify what they pass on to the next reader, who is none the wiser about the truthfulness and authenticity of the information given to them.

I don’t know about the rest of you. But I do not want to misinform my friends or those who trust me, much less complete strangers on the net who chanced upon my blog!

Pulau Ubin Trip

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Went with my church friends to Pulau Ubin today. It rained pretty heavily for about 30 minutes or so before the weather clears up. But that was good because it kept the entire morning cool as we broke up in groups to go around exploring the island on our own.

It is sad I have never been to Ubin for all my life until now. There are some quiet places away from the noisy and packed city which I liked, and it is a good escape from the city, though one of my church friends mentioned that today is a little quiet maybe because of the early morning rain causing some people to put off their plans to visit.

Here are some photos I took with my beloved FZ8…. and of course, modified with Picasa. 😛


NMP Siew Kum Hong

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I have said I will not write anymore about 377A, but unfortunately, it seems I do not have the luxury. I was just confronted by Priss over my support of 377A.

Priss was reasonably upset that I had stood for it, and she showed me what the comments some of the other supporters had written. I won’t repeat those bigoted and homophobic comments since I do not stand for any of those arguments myself. I was reasonably appalled and I am quite sure quite a number of those who signed for it would be reasonably upset as well if they had gone through them.

I was further confronted by the fact that some has attacked Mr Siew Kum Hong and called for his removal or resignation.

I do not know Mr Siew personally, but it was many years ago that we had exchanged views on soc.culture.singapore. Then a university undergrad at NUS, Mr Siew gives me the impression as a reasonable, calm, and knowledgeable person. I enjoyed writing in response to Mr Siew, and to read his well thought of comments.

While I don’t have a single clue why Mr Siew stood for repealing 377A, from my old impression of him, I believed he has looked at all the angles and decided that this is a good cause he should champion in his capacity as a NMP. (I would prefer he does things out of his own motivation than just sing endless praises of the Tali-PAP, or play devils advocate or act as a fake opposition. It was certainly better than people talking about people who eats and plays loud music on MRT, for starters.)

If I meet Mr Siew in person, I would give him a pat on the back even though I disagree with what he is championing. Not for the reason I had a good impression of the man, but for what he put at stake for his cause. I wondered if he had seen the reaction coming at him for doing this, would he persevere?

The sacrifice he is making I can definitely respect, though I cannot say the same for the endless chatters of a lot of pro-repeal bloggers whom in my opinion has got zilch to lose for championing for the repeal. (In other words, no matter how articulate you are or how well you are presenting your points, you are just a trend follower because it is my opinion you have nothing to lose to just follow it. You have made no sacrifices and have no clue what you will pay to champion the cause.)

So I say, to those who are almost literally crying for Mr Siew’s blood, leave Mr Siew alone. The call for his resignation or removal is completely uncalled for. Is that the only way we know how to deal with those who champions an opposing cause – to completely tear him down and destroy him regardless of what kind of person he may truly be? Is this the kind of politics you want for this country?

Your reaction can set an example of the kind of political participation you want, Singapore. Can’t we calmly just listen to what other people have to say, and politely disagree, no matter how we loathe what they are saying?

The choice is yours, Singapore.

Seat Hoggers on Bus 174

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Took this photo on bus 174 around 2:30pm today on my way back after lunch in Bukit Timah with xinyun. I didn’t originally noticed what they had done until I stop pounding on my Blackberry and looking at messages on Twitter.

To be fair, while there were a number of standing passengers, the bus wasn’t really packed. Above which seats were getting available every few stops. But beyond the right edge of this picture, nearer to the door, a little girl in school uniform was sitting on the place where one of the validators were mounted. So I am just wondering if they didn’t do this, that girl might get a proper seat.

I should have adjusted my position a little so I could have the girl in the shot. She and her elder sister alighted several stops before these two in the picture did the same.

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