Very interesting article about the Y-Geners preferred source of news these days.
I quite agree since I stopped reading newspapers for almost 10 yrs now and have been a regular reader of channelnewsasia.com since some places wanted me to subscribe for news which I can already get at a click away. Seriously. Who on earth would pay? Apart from that, the reasons the blogger brought up are almost the ones I have for getting my daily news online. I’m in front of the comp the moment I step into the office till I leave and most days after work, I spend an average of 3-5 hrs online doing various things. Besides.. I have short arms. Without a table to spread the Straits Times on, my arms can’t handle the strain of holding up the paper :p
Anyway. Here’s bits of it:
‘..1) News finds me…someone is going to blog about it, send me an email with an URL attached or just tell me about it on MSN. 2) I need my information to be relevant…’
Post here.
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In other news, my bro (he was the only Malay in the recent Qingdao to Santa Cruz leg) was in an article in the Berita Harian. I don’t know anyone around me who reads the BH. And even if I have it with me, I have to take half an hour just to understand one paragraph in an article. Not really exaggerated there. It might be that my vocab is really limited. Or it might be that some people still write in full sentences with huge and cheem* Malay words. How to read when a story of let’s say a boy falling off a bike sounds like an essay on the fickle nature of weather combined with the lack of the family values of this boy to even think of having him ride in the middle of the night on concrete road with no supervision thus, the parents needing parenting lessons.. I end up turning to K to sum up the story for me when this article or another involves someone I know and I’m just kaypoh.**
Nyeh. So yea, Imma jus gonna look at the photo of my bro whom other bro told me, ‘Eh Abang looks like a terrorist on a boat!’ and yes, they got my dad’s name wrong, adding a Nor at the end. My bro’s gf reckons maybe my dad’s one-word name is too plain hence the addition? Tsk. Such a common name, both my bro and dad and they always get it wrong. Zzz.. just realised his name is spelled wrongly in the Clipper site too lol.
Righty. More surfing for news.
*cheem: Hokkien term meaning something is profound or deep or intellectual.
“You study philosophy? Wah lao, damn cheem, man!” [Actually the term "cheem" is used with an admiring yet simultaneously condescending attitude.]
**kaypoh: busybody
