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Daily SG: 24 Jul 2008
Posted by singaporedaily on July 24th, 2008
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The most whimsical and nostalgic lyrics ever.
I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain of my wounded heart
Regret - New Order
Maybe Ive forgotten the name and the address
Of everyone Ive ever known
Its nothing I regret
Save it for another day
Its the school exam and the kids have run away
I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain of my wounded heart
I was upset you see
Almost all the time
You used to be a stranger
Now you are mine
I wouldnt even trust you
Ive not got much to give
Were dealing in the limits
And we dont know who with
You may think that Im out of hand
That Im naive, Ill understand
On this occasion, its not true
Look at me, Im not you
I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain of my wounded heart
I was a short fuse
Burning all the time
You were a complete stranger
Now you are mine
I would like a place I could call my own
Have a conversation on the telephone
Wake up every day that would be a start
I would not complain about my wounded heart
Just wait till tomorrow
I guess thats what they all say
Just before they fall apart
g
July 24th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Hi,
I am very sure this is only a temporary set back.
Besides there are thousands of articles once written by BP and they are posted all over the world.
We are in the process of uncovering many of them. Even if we repost many of them, it would be the very first time many of the readers have read them - so they are ineffect new.
I am not joking when we, the FILB say this, these ppl wrote so much, even if I were to post daily for 2 years.
I wouldn’t even have used at 20% of the reserve capacity.
What we have done is spruce up some of these articles by adding and subtracting their relevance todays events.
We are working very hard. I hope you will all keep your spirits up.
Meanwhile this is another new article that my team and I have been working on.
It’s about Falling Birth Rates
http://dotseng.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/the-great-singaporean-baby-blues/
Enjoy and do keep up the good fight all.
Y2K
July 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
MESSAGE FROM THE BROTHERHOOD PRESS TO ALL OUR VALUED READERS.
Dear valued readers,
I understand many of you are deeply affected by these recent events.
Allow me to say, we must disregard them at all cost.
Blogosphere is big enough to accommodate all manner of differences. What other people choose to do is their business entirely. I don’t see why we should even get involved. As I see it what the govt, nlb or what even a couple of bloggers propose is wholly inconsequential and irrelevant to how we may choose to write or even relate to our readers. They can propose, but if neither you or I signed up for it. Then how can it possibly even apply to us? Yes, they knock on our door one day; then we will cross the bridge, but till then, we are just troubling ourselves and wasting energy unnecessarily with issues which do not have any bearing on our destiny.
As for the BP. Yes, there has been a dramatic drop in readership. This cannot be denied. And the output currently stands at zero. Bear in mind the latter is a conscious decision taken by ONLY a few writers, as a protest action unfortunately it has spread wide and far to affect the entire writer’s guild. I understand and fully respect their decision, but I also regret it. As this will only exacerbate our long term writing capabilities. My hope is cooler heads will prevail to seek a resolution to this impasse.
Having said that, the BP as far as capacity to produce remains very potent and I am very confident with the newly set up of FILB, it will continue to produce quality reads to make up for the shortfall with the help of our channel partners such as PBK, APICS, Strangelanders and here in the Singapore Daily. I admit the readership remains sparse, just over a 1,000 compared to our previous figure of 4 to 5 times this figure daily.
I will be having a meeting with the read clubs to see how best we can met their ongoing concerns – I believe they are issues some of you are unhappy with and I will endeavor to work to seek some way to recruit the older readers back. As for our new readers we hope that you will continue to explore the works of the FILB.
Dear valued readers, let us try to see this in the correct perspective; it is only natural that many of you should be given time to adjust to these new developments that has taken place. Till now many of you have only known Darkness the writer along with the regulars such as Scholarboy and AstroBoy and there is no denying, they were certainly very prolific and versatile writers who all enjoyed mass appeal, so when Darkness left in the way it did, it’s only natural that many see this as an end of an era.
My hope is for these old and new readers to understand this is not an end as it is a new beginning. The torch has been handed to a new generation. Writers such as Darkness in no way forsaked us. As much as they laid down solid foundations for the writers guild to continue and even grow. They left us very good linkages to research material, one of the widest networks of subject matter experts and machine writing systems which many of us can build on and even improve up, so I am very confident we will not only be able to surmount this episode but even emerge stronger.
Meanwhile to our new readers especially do take the opportunity to visit Missy Dotty’s website, “JUST STUFF” http://dotseng.wordpress.com/ and even bookmark it. Give the FILB a chance. The FILB has in these recent months unearthed many interesting reads which was previously thought to be lost forever due to deletion. And this includes some of the famed icered.com and bagua.com material has also been retrieved and laboriously pieced together electronically. All this has been made possible by the new troupe of 11 volunteers comprising mainly of historians and librarians. Without their remarkable skill, dedication and team work under the guidance of the director general of FILB, Y2K, none of this could have been possible.
I hope that you will all take this opportunity to check them out in Missy Dotty’s website and bear out their new style of presenting all this for your reading pleasure.
May I wish you all happy reading and welcome to the brotherhood world
Cheers!
Harphoon – De facto nominated director of the brotherhood press.
[This message has been broadcasted to APICS< PBK / Strangelands and the aggregator site, the Singapore Daily – by the ICG]
July 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Inorder to assure some of you we are taking your concerns very seriously.
I have assembled a team of experts.
They will go through with a fine tooth comb what will be eventually proposed by AIMS
http://www.nrf.gov.sg/nrf/strategic.aspx?id=156
If we do not agree with their proposal. We will provide a point by point rebuttal here. And I promise you, if needed, we will hit very hard.
This is to assure you all. We, the brotherhood are treating this matter with utmost attention.
Trust me, if they come out with something stupid; we will slap it down. And we will do so in a very hard way that leaves no doubt.
On this I want to give you my assurance, that I have not sold out contrary to some rumors circulating around.
I owe Darkness this much. After all I consider him my older brother. Everything I have learnt. I learnt from him.
Cheers
Harphoon