Daily SG: 13 Mar 2009
The Passing of Dr Allan Ooi
- Wayang Party Club: Sin Ming forced to publish Dr Allan Ooi’s farewell letter with a different SPIN to distract attention from the real reason behind his suicide
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The Gospel of Harry
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Housing
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Re education
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Strangers in a Strange Land
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Daily Discourse
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- Midnight Monkey Monitor: I signed the No Whaleshark petition, have you?
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I caught Watchmen yesterday. Most reviews have been divided between very good and otherwise.
Personally, I’ve never read the Alan Moore comic. Prior to the movie, all I had caught was the delectable trailer/teaser. I found the movie very enjoyable. Like Rorschach (a compelling performance by Jackie Earle Haley), I sat in my seat, wanting to uncover the truth. Thanks to the Comedian (an awesome performance by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Yes ladies, that cigar chomping man is/was Denny from Grey’s Anatomy), the smiley was cool already in 1985 even without the MSN Messenger.
The movie takes you back when costume heros literally fought crime. Heros have vices. Heros are vulnerable. Heros fight amongst themselves and get into disagreements. On top of it all, they just want to save the world, like it or not. Sacrifices have to be made. In the end, the cold truth is, the end justifies the means.
The film isn’t as dark as Dark Knight. Nor is it as gripping. What it does is that it draws you in and makes you move on, matter-of-factly.
Critics say that the comic is unsuited for the film media. That is precisely Alan Moore’s stand. I say, I’ll rather have a Watchmen movie than none at all.
P.S. For the women who love men and men who love men, there is more male nudity than female nudity (go CG!).
P.P.S. And I’ll never listen to Hallelujah (by Leonard Cohen) the same way again. :P
March 13th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Please sign the No Whaleshark petition!! This country has enough prisoners as it is.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
the local internet community is now abuzzed, wondering if Wayang Party did the right thing by publishing Dr Allan Ooi’s suicide letter. It appears that the family of Dr Allan had requested the removal of the letteron Hardware Zone forums.
i would prefer to think that Wayang Party had validated the authenticity and had requested for the consent of his family members before publishing the letter. maybe the family did. maybe the family didn’t. but it seems like the family would rather keep things quiet for now.
what would SAF say?
March 13th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for featuring, cheers!
March 13th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Did you know that in the Watchmen feature Shit Times did they wrote “the late Terry Gilliam”? He’s not fucking dead. Shows the shit standards the MSM in Singaporea has.
March 13th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
the B says – “the local internet community is now abuzzed, wondering if Wayang Party did the right thing by publishing Dr Allan Ooi’s suicide letter. It appears that the family of Dr Allan had requested the removal of the letteron Hardware Zone forums.”
Why are you picking out on the Wayang party for publishing the letter? If they had not done this, the impressions and lies perpetuated by the MSM would have appeared to be facts and done injustice to Dr Allan Ooi (especially for people who do not know him)? The letter was sent to the press… meaning that the people who received this, had the rights, and in sending them to the MSM, wished that they be published. However and unfortunately the MSM didn’t deem it fit to print the facts and contents, it distorted, insinuated on the possible theories and god know what.
The Chinese paper finally printed the letter to cover their fu..king assess but alas appears not to know which hole to cover and WP spotted the dfferences in the letter being publihed -
- private matters were not published by WP which were instead splashed in the papers by the Chinese media
- matters relating to his work was taken out (presumably on PURPOSE and to cover the fu…king asses) by the Chinese media instead.
The question here is not why or should the WP publish the letter. This letter was also sent to the WP (I belive in hindsight the person who sent this has the inkling that justice may not be done to the leeter sent to the MSM). I believe WP did this to vindicate Dr Allan Ooi from the various allegations sprouted and espoused by the MSM which is absoultely disgusting to do to someone who as passed on irrespective, when they actually have the same letter on hand.
In regards to the removal of the letter from the forum… what if they are removed. The fu..king Chinese media has already splashed it in print.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
How come Wayang Party was approached only and not The Online Citizen or Yawning Bread? If all 3 published the letter, this would increase the spread of the letter. The local press is slow and inaccurate as usual. Now we know the full story.
March 13th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
With due respect to WP. Someone must have helped them. I dont think most people understand the organizational skills that is required to pull off something this big.
Look closer. I mean really look. It was executed with military precision. 12 hours bfr the letter was published in WY. At least 30 to 40 gaming sites were already primed. Everytime you log on. U r auto directed to WP. 6 hours bfr the publish, all the forums were short circuited with a special announcement.
When it came out in WP. Everyone was there to catch the ball. The whole entire internet was there. It might sound strange to you but no one has ever heard of WP bfr. Today they know. Bfr they didnt. How coincidental. There is only one grp in the internet that can do all this. And not even leave a single trace of having done so. And my lips are sealed.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
@soojenn
take it easy ^_^ i’m not picking on Wayang Party. i agree, they have done done something valiant. it is very likely to go down in history too. perhaps i should have included comments on how crappy the local mainstream media is.
@ST Sucks
more reasons to burn the paper at stake! can’t wait for Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Good Omens
March 14th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
How to go after wayang’s throat? Brotherhood came out and even gave them direct support.
For a moment, it was touch and go. Now everything is as it should be.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Go to wayang and see how they are pummelling the MSM. One article after another its coming like artillery. Non stop. How to go after wayang’s throat?
Cannot lah.
This press people made a big bu bu, once they touched on gaming, that’s it.
If you notice, bfr that, they kept dead silent abt widjaya. Then the china national oso same. Alan oso same.
When gaming came out. They hantam full force. And it will just right on till there is nothing left.
March 14th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Well, let me put it this way; if lets say you were Allan waiting in line to enter the pearly gates; and you happen to be reading the ST – along with all the gibberish they have been writing about him about why he did himself in bc he couldnt get his ipod to synch along with other such lies – what do you think; he would have really wanted?
Exactly. We should all respect the dead.
SD
March 14th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Well done, to all the Brothers!
March 14th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Well done, to all the Brothers!
Keep up the good work Singapore Daily!
March 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
The cyber counter insurgency team screwed up big time with the brotherhood.
Had they played their cards wisely. They could have the BP eating out of their hands.
But when they were in TOC, they kena censored, cornered and even arrowed. Now I like to see them pull the same stunt in wayang.
One thing is very clear, have you seen TOC’s visitor counter lately?
No guesses where all the readers have migrated too.
This is what happens when amatuers r put up against professionals.
They lose big time.
March 21st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Ну а что еще писать шоб не потерли? :)