Critical Inquiry

The inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is coming to Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010 and the Youth Olympic Village (YOV) has been set up at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), expecting to house over 5000 atheletes and officials. There are still more acronyms in this YOG. JYOF stands for Journey of the Youth Olympic Flame, IOC is the International Olympic Committee, SYOGOC is the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee and CEP is the Culture and Education Programme for atheletes. Guess the YOG acronyms will become more familiar over time... All competing atheletes! Do your best and bring forth the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect!

Well... There has been no bigger news recently than Jack Neo's affair with freelance model Wendy Chong (钟佳燕). The juicy story has been reported in the local newspapers day after day and Jack Neo (梁智强) held a press conference with his wife Irene Kng (康美凤) at Scorpio East Auditorium at 10am on 11th Mar 2010. The video clip of Jack Neo's press conference can be viewed at the razortv site, http://www.razor.tv/site/servlet/segment/main/news/44820.html . It appears from the clip that the couple are badly traumatised by the turn of events and Jack Neo spoke first expressing his regret before passing it over to his wife Irene Kng to address the media. Bad move. While Jack Neo is a veteran artiste whom is adept at handling the media, Irene Kng is largely a stranger to addressing the media. Futhermore, she is already under so much stress and she has to voice her feelings to a big group of complete strangers. Perhaps that is the price for being married to a public figure? But for th

For frequent visitors of the Hardwarezone forums who did not sign up for their deluxe membership, it is common to encounter a "The server is too busy at the moment" message. One enterprising forummer has helped created a Firefox plugin to circumvent this "The server is too busy at the moment" message. This Firefox plugin for HWZ which helps to enhance the surfing experience when accessing Hardwarezone forums can be downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/92921/ and what it achieves is that it helps perform an automatic refresh/F5 of the page until a successful HWZ page load is achieved. HWZ really should look into putting in more bandwidth/hardware for their site. The site grew from strength to strength based on the many people whom had supported it over the years and now that the user base is much larger, it becomes more and more difficult to simply access the site. Hardwarezone Admins should look into the incessant complains on "