I know I haven’t been updating this blog because I’m too lazy. Years 2 and 3 have been an exciting flurry of business (both work and busy-ness). I constantly spew bite-sized thoughts that stream into my mind on Instagram Stories anyway, and I am remarkably easily bored and excitable, so longer, more considered pieces on Blogger aren’t sustainable. I digress. Many exciting life updates! I’m now officially done with my undergraduate PPE programme at King’s College London. I loved every bit of it: the depth, rigour and intellectual intensity of the course, the international student community, the bustling city of London and all the travel opportunities around Europe. Words can’t do justice to the profundity of the experience. In typical Quincean fashion, I milked everything I could out of the three years: went to Cumberland Lodge (for free) as a photographer with the Philosophy Department in Years 1 and 3, clinched the Principal’s Global Leadership Award (PGLA) in my second year (spending
At the end of this year, Singapore's free-to-air terrestrial broadcasts will ditch the analogue PAL standard and fully adopt the digital DVB-T2 standard. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has put in a lot of effort to inform, educate and advise the public about making the switch to Digital, but much of their attention is focused on how to switch, not what and why . After getting to know the educational roadshows IMDA has planned during my grassroots attachment at Changi Simei and resolving my relatives' confusion, I think that it is about time to demystify the what and the why of Digital TV using an apt analogy: language. (The qualities I ascribe to the languages mentioned here are for the sake of argument only.) Suppose we have been speaking English all the while. Life is pretty good. English has served us well, but it has two problems: It's long (polysyllabic), and therefore each word takes a long time to say Each word has only one meaning, so