- The name sounds like babies’ call to be breast fed. (MAMA! JOOJOO!)
- CrunchPad 4EVAR!
- Flash is buggy, memory intensive and counterproductive.
- I’m a student. Let me have my eBooks! OM NOM NOM NOM!!!
- Velvet Puffin was the creator’s ex-fling. Which was a multi-messenger like many other, even though it’s widely publicized as Singapore’s very own MySpace.
- Like Velvet Puffin, they love tie-ups a lot – although Velvet Puffin had one known tie-up which was Singtel. For JooJoo (bleach!), it’s like having a gangbang with many, many partners.
- Since Mr. Jobs introduced the iPad, your lackluster platform is 0wn3d!
- Stop giving the “web apps” will do excuse.
- WIFI needs configuration. Configuration is painful. Can I haz 3G pleaze?
- The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!
Posted in Technologic.
Tagged with flash, ipad, joojoo, myspace, velvet puffin, wifi.
By brennan
– 5 February, 2010
With all the talk of increasing the presence of the opposition party in Parliament to speculating if Singapore could do without a PAP, I think the general sense of our political will in Singapore can be summed up in one miserable sentence:
Here, we have absolutely no hunger to be involved in politics.
Yup. We don’t give a shit. Seriously, there is absolutely no drive at all except to be a bystander or just a commentator like Sgpolitics or TheOnlineCitizen. Ask yourself if there’s a pressing need for a change, and will you commit and execute that change? There is a high chance that you will expect the ministers to lower prices, distinguish PRs from citizens and legalize bar-top dancing. What will you do? Just bitch and whine about every single minute thing.
So, before you say that Singapore is fucked up in every way, how about taking a minute to reflect whether you gave a shit in the first place?
Posted in NO SRSLY.
Tagged with pap, politics, singapore.
By brennan
– 4 February, 2010
Seriously, I don’t see the jubilation behind that three-letter abbreviation. Coming from an ORD personnel, I have already been notified of my oncoming reservist in 6 months’ time. That’s just 4 months after breathing the “fresh air” of civilian life.
In fact, reality bites on the initial joy, swallow it all and craps in your face. Like will you be able to DOTA/L4D/WoW the rest of your days after your ORD? For the university going young punks like myself, it’s a cliched mess of filling in that gap and having learnt the importance of treasuring your school days. The latter, especially, applies for me.
I’ll be meeting my NS kakis to check on how things me going for them later this evening. Hopefully, things aren’t as bleak as I anticipate them to be.
Posted in NO SRSLY.
Tagged with NS, ORD, reality check.
By brennan
– 25 December, 2009

I have never been in a school that is so radical. Radical in terms of work, competition and the pursuit of the A+. Speculations attribute this to the change in curriculum, and the dragon-year students. The latter of which does sound plausible, but still, competition is as rife as the general consensus amongst the tertiary population of girls in SMU who wear make-up and mini-skirts.
Did I mentioned that Academic Writing inculcated a fear (or even loathing) for writing? I constantly joke that if I could do well in that, I could jolly well graduate with a doctorate right away! The module mostly trains all of us to write research papers. ‘Us’ as in those who are unfortunate enough to be from polytechnics and not fair very well for their GP in ‘A’ Levels. When a JC guy heaved a sigh of relief, thankful that he needn’t take that module, I feel a certain discrimination dividing the academic intellect. That is, between those who escaped it, and those who have to grit their teeth and suffer through their apparent lack of academic writing skills.
Project meetings are the norm here in SMU. I mean, not attending even one (for me, at least) is like a life-and-death situation. That’s for the majority of us – thankful I don’t need to face the nightmare-ish members who will only turn up as the please / turn up occasionally / don’t turn up at all. Still, when I’m at meetings with the laptop turned on, I basically fall into the second and third category anyway.
And that much sought after A+. It reached a point where there can only be one. If you’re good, you’re good. If you suck, you just suck. There’s always this murmur-laughter that follows whenever the professors say that grades are not important, but learning is. Yes, I see myself regressing to that laid-back thinking that was so symbolic of me back in my polytechnic days. Cause’ what can being cautiously overly studious bring you? Evening out the bell-curve distribution of grades?
Posted in Two Cents' Worth.
Tagged with singapore, SMU, writing.
By brennan
– 30 November, 2009
Sometimes, I beleive that the lack of blogging has greatly affected my writing prowess, and the lack of practice thereof affects my standing in My Academic essays.
Moral of the story? Blog more, read less. On another note, this sums up my October hiatus.
Posted in Two Cents' Worth.
Tagged with hiatus, SMU, writing.
By brennan
– 6 November, 2009
Facebook now enables you to do that @mention thing, a function that is part and parcel of Twitter. To get a better idea, just hit ‘@’ whenever you write a new wall post to get.
And if you find yourself struggling to use Facebook, perhaps you might consider to use Facebook Lite. This is now a permanent fixture on my browser – even on Chrome because of the laggy SMU WLAN-Student network. Goto http://lite.facebook.com if you want a speedier Facebook!
Posted in Technologic.
Tagged with facebook, lite, mentions.
By brennan
– 15 September, 2009
No seriously, it’s cool to adopt Wordpress as the publishing platform for SMUSA. But making it blog-centric is just outright FAIL.
Why? Continued…
Posted in Two Cents' Worth.
Tagged with SMU, smusa.
By brennan
– 7 September, 2009
Because a car is lighter than a plane, you dumb-dumbs! (from klik.tv)
On another note, ZOMFG!!! HOT RUNAWAY CHICKS!!!
Posted in Two Cents' Worth.
Tagged with 747, awesome, changi airport, porsche, race.
By brennan
– 6 September, 2009
Who ever knew that the lyrics to ”he’s got the whole world in your hands” could be a sign of what the future holds. The future of having the whole world not just in your hands, but at your fingertips. At your fingertips: the information superhighway. Now transformed into an information explosion, that have never been and will never be punctuated by the dot-com bubble. Lest the cessation of undersea optic cables or the Great Firewall of China. Continued…
Posted in Technologic.
Tagged with birthday, future, internet.
By brennan
– 3 September, 2009