Posts by Juha Saarinen
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Can I just say... "Kebabette" is the best nick I've seen for a long time.
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Aahahaha.... Apple pwns j00, Russb. You forgot to sacrifice your first-born to The iJobs, didn't you? Told you, he doesn't take kindly to such omissions.
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Triple-Quad Play... no. Too little, too late. It's the Telco Wet Dream, resurrected by Alcatel-Lucent, and it's been around since the 90s. ADSL was designed for that purpose (ATM transport, high downstream/moderate upstream speeds) in fact, and not for Internet Protocol traffic. With Bittorrent, different types of VoIP, P2PTV etc, why would anyone want WhateverPlay where the content is controlled by the telcos?
ULL/LLU is happening at Telecom's pace, which was to be expected. It's in Telecom's interest to delay it as much as possible for a variety of reasons. They key one being of course that Telecom doesn't make as much money out of broadband as it does out of the line rental.
Must go and look at Google News now :)
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I was there in the 90s, and Batey Ads... well, they were world famous in Singapore, but that's it. Batey produced shite like the Tiger beer campaigns apart from SIA. Now they've lost SIA to TBWA, a switch that should've happened maybe two decades ago as it might have saved generations of Singapore Girls from mile high bogosity.
Saatchi Singapore was good though. Perhaps they still are, and there's always... dare I say it? Neil French.
New Bugis St was a giggle, in Singapore as well. Apparently, the Singapore Tourist Board decided the sanitisation of the area had gone too far, and it was boring. Did they bring back the sailors' Dance of the Flaming Arseholes atop the loo on Vic and Queen St? No. How about getting tourists ripped on cocaine and sending them out for a night of high buggery with the Ah Quas? No... in Singapore, they hang you for drugs and police officers in tight trousers cruise the parks to entrap gay men. Well, I'm not sure that happens any more, to be honest.
Never saw it myself, but apparently they paid a few ladyboys to be gawked at by the tourists, some in airconditioned booths, others on platforms. They were monitored by CCTV and microphones, in case they became nostalgic and wanted to relive the past. Went down like a lead balloon.
Did I mention the food? Oh yes I did.
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Why is it always men collapsing in gyms and getting packawhacked? Never women, not once.
It's a conspiracy, isn't it?
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I like my lettuce though... :\
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Hold it, hold it... I lived and worked in Singapore for almost four years. And that was before it got liberal like it is now. Seriously, it's not that bad... almost ended up staying there. The advertising circuit in Singapore is pretty damn good, and while I thought the Straits Times was the worst paper in the world, it was only because I hadn't seen the NZ Herald yet.
Granted, Singapore is restricted in many ways, but it's not the navel-gazing backwater of NZ.
And the food... OMG, I miss it.
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So... you're telling me GBLT isn't a sandwich?
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Sueffrage
Yes. I like that word.
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Yeah, I know, should've checked out Kiwiblog's comments first but... it's like dipping your head into a cesspit, except nastier.