Joecities

Despite my faithful care for my succulent, it died.

I can only attribute it to two possibilities.

1) Ninja Slug Assassins from the konnikichikuku clan stealthily broke into my house and added slow-acting poison to the soil and escaped leaving no traces of their devious deed.

2) After I left it out in the sun too much one day. It got sunburnt. And while I was trying to help it recover, I over-watered it. {{Two-hit combo !}}

I’m leaning towards option 1.

In other news, Sher Lin, a good friend and last remaining Singaporean class mate from the MBA is (semi-permanently) leaving Melb for home in a few weeks. Apart from being great company to have around, Sher Lin was also our mentor to the finer things in life (Think Rosé, Veuve Clicquot and other hard-to-pronounce drinks). She will be missed.

On a brighter note, I’m looking forward to having two unlikely visitors from home next month. Unlikely because I didn’t think they’d be traveling together, but looking forward because it’s nice that they are (or at least might be until they actually book their tickets) traveling together…

Keeping with the Singapore theme, I’ve found it amazing how the blogging community has quietly (?) exploded there. I hear more about things that happen through blogs and slashdot-style sites (e.g. tomorrow.sg) rather than the ST or TNP website. Isn’t that odd ? I suppose that’s why bloggers have been recruited into the mainstream press, but given that blogging is a medium with very little barriers to entry, shouldn’t it be the other way around ? (e.g. Journalists become bloggers instead) I’m not sure but I suspect it’s a credibility issue.

If a prominent journalist primarily published news through their blog, it remains an ‘opinion’. Whereas if it appears in the ST, because it’s been filtered through their different levels of editors and policy, it gets the endorsement of the masthead, and thus, it ‘must’ be true.

Shirz is back in school, and I’ve got to get back to work. So I’ll let her relate her academic adventures another time.