Mar 21, 2009 0
With all the stupid quizes around, everyone’s doing them. Really too many people doing it everyday and it floods my feeds.
Can facebook allow us to use regular expressions to block what we do not want to see?
Mar 16, 2009 5
I guess the main reason why I don’t even step on Friendster is because this pisses me off. I find it really irritating when I have to switch to my own language everytime I visit the site (in the past), until one day I decided that I shouldn’t even bother looking at it.
I travel and stay around quite a fair bit between Singapore and Malaysia for the past few years. Recently, I was really disappointed by Singtel’s Mobile Broadband and that caused me not to be able to surf much in Singapore as I wasn’t even able to multitask by surfing 2 websites at 1 go. It’s that serious. Now I’ve got M1 Mobile Broadband, and it isn’t any better too. I’ll do a review about it another day — but you know it’s not going to be a good review. But seriously speaking, TMNet Streamyx performs way better than the damn Mobile Broadbands I got in terms of stability. Ok, thats not the point.
Speaking about languages, English has been my primary language since young and that makes Chinese my mother tongue. I don’t get to learn Malay (Or Bahasa) in school and thats why until today I’m no good at the language.
We’ve got facebook right now, and it’s doing way better in terms of surfing experience. Importantly, they don’t select a damn default language for me by my IP Address.
Good bye Friendster. Any other sites that make me read Malay as my default language, I’ll say good bye to you too. [Webmasters, get this into your brains please.]
Dec 17, 2008 0
I recently got invited into Facebook groups like PETITION AGAINST HIGH BUS FARES for POLY STUDENTS and Travel Concession for FULL-TIME SIM Students, a plea for common sense but I didn’t join. What’s the point?
The creators of the groups wrote stuffs like:
It is obviously unfair that SMRT and SBS charge polytechnic students adult fares while JC students only pay 45cents per trip. Are we not of the same age as JC students? Do we NOT travel as much as JC students do? Are our families any better off than theirs? The general answer is NO, Polytechnic students are in fact just average students. Yes, there are elder students who are already working and capable of supporting themselves, but they still hold a very much smaller percentage as compared to the young students fresh from secondary school. I do believe SMRT and SBS are smart enough to not make decisions based on stereotyping thinking, and i certainly do believe that they are capable of being fair and unbiased, so i take it this fare difference was due to negligence in decision discussion and making. A higher fare would very directly affect the students’ moods about school, discouraging students from poorer families to continue with their studies. This could impact the Singaporean economy as the majority of people studying go to polytechnics after their O levels, and a high fare would discourage workers from coming back to polytechnics to upgrade themselves.
and ..
I’m sure many of us feel the need to be recognised as full time undergraduate students who deserve concession for public transport too, just as much as our peers in the public universities. I heard even students, if it is indeed true, of LaSalle College of the Arts get approved as tertiary students who deserve concession.(Pardon me if I’m wrong) So why not us too?
But you think your voices are heard when you write so much on Facebook? Ministers don’t use Facebook (am I right?).
My suggestions
Riots won’t be allowed in Singapore, so don’t even think about it.
I would suggest we all target our school’s students’ union. Let them voice it for our behalf. If not, what’s the students’ union for?
If your school’s student union isn’t doing anything about this, write in to your school’s student affairs. Remind them that you’re (we’re) all not rich.
Now I know its not easy, but contact the media. Let the media know that you got a few thousand people here that aren’t happy. (Few thousand for a poly isn’t sufficient. At least find 20% of the school population.) Form a group of 10-30 people first, camp at food courts daily to gather signatures and NRICs/Student ID. Let the media know what you’ve got and that they should voice it for you.
And again if this doesn’t work, go suck thumb.
Oh or if you’ve got a better suggestion, let me know. I completed my 3 years in poly and I know, if they wanted to implement what you suggested, they would have done it years back.
… again, good night.
Jun 17, 2008 2
It’s the day we’re all waiting for – Download Day 2008! Download Day starts at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, June 17th.
Download Day is a day set to break the Guinness World Record for the most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. All you have to do is visit http://mozilla.org/firefox to download Firefox 3 and you’ve done your part. Simple huh?
“We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.”
SpreadFirefox.com
When is Download Day?
Here are some times you can follow:
I’ve listed out some cities randomly. Where are you residing at? If the city you’re staying at isn’t listed here, do refer to this page for the time.
Why Firefox 3?
In short, Firefox is one of the best browsers, in terms of security, functions, customizability and perhaps user-friendliness.
What can I do?
So, do you plan to help? If so, how? If not, why?
Oct 13, 2007 3
I decided to keep this entry’s title unrelated to Friendster. 4 years ago, I joined Friendster.
Comparing Friendster 4 years ago and now, I find that Friendster hasn’t changed much. Fans, Groups and Schools features were just implemented a few months ago. There’s less spam as compared to previously. BUT, the site hasn’t improved much. There’s nothing that can attract me to surf the site except to view when my friends are celebrating their birthdays. So I usually visit the main page and the page reflecting upcoming birthdays.
Facebook is different. When I first saw facebook.com some time back, I thought the site would be something boring. There was only some text on the mainpage and nothing else. No photos at all! That was the reason I didn’t join.
Looking at facebook today, it’s really grown. I start to think of the future with facebook.
Facebook will start to dominate all social networking sites like Friendster. Soon, matchmaking sites will be on facebook.
In time to come, after most people on the Internet has joined facebook, investigators (FBI?)Â may just pop onto facebook to find leads on all cases.
What else? Will facebook or Google know more about you?
My facebook account
You can add me at felix@ker.sg. The picture on the left is to show how attractive the site is. Discover it yourself.
I don’t frequent facebook as much as I visit Google as I find facebook too addictive with all the invitations for the different apps designed by facebookers.
Friends out there, not a facebook members yet? Join now and discover your friends!
Have fun!
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