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I’m quoted in the papers today regarding YouTube as an outreach channel. Thanks to Tan Weizhen for the coverage!
I was explaining how some may have concerns that uploaded videos could be downloaded and manipulated, etc. But this also happens with anything else you put online. You have a corporate website? Well, someone could modify your logo. If you’re afraid, then forget about this new outreach channel. Don’t be too upset if something rips your copyrighted videos and uploads them to YouTube instead - on the positive side, that gives you more exposure. If some have bothered to go through this trouble, it could indicate they’re interested enough in the cause.
And if you want to see what our youths can do in a user-generated video contest on health, check this out for quality and depth!
I’m fine with Maria Sharapova as a tennis player, apart from the shrieking. Now I’m more ingrigued to learn that Maria has now turned to her fans for advice online, since this smells of Web 2.0 spirit.
According to the Beeb, she’s protesting against a WTA ruling that she and other stars must do a publicity shoot possibly a day before the matches.
Her official website announcements are generally written in the third person. However, Maria’s personal tone of voice comes through in this message, which seems to be written by her (or someone on her behalf):
This links to the online poll, where you can also vote.
You can also view the results. Right now most of the 4,000 odd fans have voted for her to refuse to do the photo shoot.
Personally, I think she should just do the photo shoot but insist that the WTA refrain from such requests in future. To kick up a big fuss is not very sportsmanlike, and besides, other big tennis stars also have to do the same. It is usually easier to convince the authorities to chance a policy when you aren’t giving them bad PR in the first place.
I and two of my cousins played at my grandmother’s birthday dinner on Saturday. These are recordings from our rehearsal on the day itself. It was a last-minute affair, since we were ‘volunteered’ for it!
Violin and piano rendition of ‘Think Of Me’ from Phantom of the Opera, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Violin, cello and piano rendition of ‘The Prayer’, originally sung by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, and written by David Foster. If you don’t have time, skip to the best part which is 2:28.
I don’t like reading scores, so I just read the chord names on top of the notation and made up the rest of the accompaniments along the way.
So it seems that a second friend has had her Facebook account broken into. I urge everyone not to list any personal details on their profiles, such as your email address and mother’s maiden name. If you haven’t logged in recently, do so just to make sure everything’s OK. Both my friends hadn’t logged into Facebook for a while, and didn’t realise what was happening immediately.
My friend told me that the only thing she recalled clicking on recently was Facebook Chat. I thought that couldn’t be possible, because that is an official Facebook feature. However, my Facebook Chat appeared at the bottom right corner of my screen, while hers was on top. When she clicked on it, apparently nothing happened. When I clicked on mine, I started chatting to my Facebook friends.
So now I have a question for my readers: If you’ve got Facebook Chat enabled, is your Chat window at the top or bottom right corner? Let’s get to the bottom of this.
…fell asleep earlier than expected, and woke up, also earlier than expected. Since that shouldn’t be happening on a public holiday, I went back to sleep. Sleep does magical things for mouth ulcers, like making them almost disappear overnight. I should apply more sleep for a longer-lasting effect.
Surfed the net as usual, bummed about. Explored some eating places near Mustafa Centre for lunch. Went to the neighbourhood mall to buy fruits and stationery. Went home and completed my French homework. I suck at doing homework cos I’m just lazy and every time I use my MacBook Pro, I end up surfing the web instead of looking up French conjugations online.
Went to Sin Huat Seafood restaurant at Geylang for dinner. Waited for nearly an hour, as is the norm, but other family members were too hungry, so we headed off to Roland’s for late night seafood. Moral of the story: Never go to a famous restaurant during peak hours, especially soon after it’s received a writeup in the papers - in this case, for its crab bee hoon.
Came home late. Surfed the net, as usual. Going to sleep. Felt I had to post something. Done. Zz.
Been working till 10pm for the past 2 days and the long hours may continue. I’m trying to complete as much work as I can. A couple of very good things have happened and I hope to impress upon the powers that be of the important work our team is doing and hopefully that will give us more leeway to venture into more interesting projects. That alone has motivated me to keep going.
On top of that, I’ve resumed French class - exams are in less than a month’s time. I wanted to take only one exam, but it appears that my teacher thinks I can take an even more difficult exam, plus an easier one, so it looks like I will be taking 3 papers in total! They will all be on different days; possible 3 days in a row. And right after my birthday :(
So, something has to give. That has been my own personal time and sleep. Which I am about to do, now. Zz
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