lundi, février 10, 2003

 Bye Bye Xanga

What prompted this thought? Well, I guess blogs are like online diaries of a sort - semi-private entries to yourself and to people around the world. So as you post your thoughts and feelings online, you're "exposed" in the sense that all your thoughts are published on the net for the whole wide world to see, and there can be no mistaking what you're feeling (unless you write in some sort of obscure language, or your prose is really convoluted, sort of like Judith Butler's prose). And yet you're still sort of "shielded" from censureship (not censorship) because you're hidden in the anonymity that the 'net provides.

But what happens if someone you know in the real world reads your blog online? Like me reading BlueStars and Babymentos's blogs? I know them from real life, but we're not close-close in the sense that we hang out together outside of class time. And now as I read their blogs, I feel that I'm invading their privacy, and that I should really stop reading because it's really none of my business. I don't blog; have never blogged before this, so I don't know how blog protocol works... maybe Nurul knows...

Anyway, back to the issue - I'm not close-close with BlueStars and Babymentos, and I feel that the stuff that they're posting is too personal for someone like me to read, especially since I know them in real life. What should I do? What sort of computer ethical morality bullshit should I apply here? I guess there's nothing else to do but ask them... it might sound stupid and all academic-like of me, but I do think that these are philosophical questions worth asking:

RANT
On a totally different track, front page of The Sunday Times - most Singaporeans (apart from NS men and people in the military service) don't care about the terrorism risk in Singapore. D'uh! If national policy and politics are going to be top-down where you don't bother to engage the people, then of course they're just gonna not bother about anything that's important! You tell people from the birth of the nation that "the government will take care of you, don't worry", and now you want them to take an interest? You can't have your cake and eat it too! People won't bother if you've got them in a nice "I'll just think about myself and about how to attain the 5Cs, thank you very much" rut.
/RANT

Hmm. Anyhows. Back to Networked Readiness from the Harvard International Development Institute. Or something like that.

on the minus side, I'M SICK! I think it might be the combination of butter-lemon chicken from Swensens' and my total b*tching about the Greddy project situation... whatever it is, my head is pounding and everything aches... very painful just listening to my fingers clicking on the keyboard...

hey there! julz has left me a comment... haha...yep, time to b*tchb*tchb*tch about anything and everything... hopefully not too much, since my body seems to have an adverse reaction to it.

Gonna go away now to stuff my body with h20 and other dangerous sounding pills...

what's on today? nothing much... spent a truckload of money, banked in my savings and hongbao money, and am now late for Nagoya prayer meeting at Jiamin's place. I so don't feel like going, but Chiharu, Masami and Kengo are there. Bother.

thesis state: currently working on Networked Readiness Levels framework for comparing ASEAN countries... the rankings are as follows:

1. Singapore (duhhhh...)
2. Malaysia
3. Thailand
4. Philippines
5. Indonesia
6. Vietnam

Countries not in the "with IT" club (haha, can't believe I'm so witty huh?) are: Brunei, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. See the pattern? No money, no webby.

Should eat dinner soon. Have sore throat from eating Swensen's fried stuff at Thomson Plaza just now. Can't believe that my tolerance for fried stuff is now so low.

Other work than thesis? Hope that Carmazzi suffers from TTSICMSITA syndrome - Trying To Screw ICM Students In The Ass syndrome - you get a whole load of pain, and leave with a painful feeling up your own ass.

[Bye Bye Xanga]
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