Aug 26 2011
“…Disturbing report that when kids were asked whether they read books, they answered only social media and text messages. Um. This is not reading. This is akin to saying you read every morning as you stare at the cereal box mindlessly munching. That is not a newspaper (though prob same nutritional value) – just as Twitter is not a book. ”
[Post about how kids are not reading books, but social media only.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/to-read-or-not-to-read-is-that-even-a-question/
Aug 19 2011
“…And I thought kids who participated in these “Be a [insert debatably credible profession here] for a day” were meant to be gifted.”
[Post about an 11 y/o who was "mayor for a day" and named a street as Justin Bieber Way as her first point of business.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/mayor-despair/
Aug 05 2011
“…In July, a convenience store [aptly named Quickie] experienced 40 teens rapidly bringing, not singing, chaos en masse to a public place after receiving a social media/text alert in typical flash mob stylez. Disappointed you missed it, or wish it was coming to a Mac’s/Shell/Esso/Coles near you? Don’t worry, it will be on Youtube.”
[Post about news articles chronicling newest trend flash rob, a step up from flash mob.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/flash-and-dash-more-like-mob-will-rob/
Jul 07 2011
“…Choice of words is important to a writer, and I couldn’t help but wonder when I read this article who was more soulless in the sensitivity stakes – the journo or the church witness?”
[Outburst post about a journalist's lack of shift+F7 use - thesaurus.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/07/words-to-live-and-die-by/
Jul 01 2011
“…it appeases my split personalities to be undertaking such subversive roles. I have a [paid] excuse to be random and act like a different person. Dream role indeed.”
[Post about how the personal advantages of being a foreign correspondent, and a preview of my first article in this role.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/07/its-great-to-be-foreign/
Jun 10 2011
“…A white picket fence is just as harmlessly ideal as the platitude suggests, as it sitting on it, so many jumped off and picketed for a side.”
[Post about two articles going head-to-head in TO press regarding what it means to be gay for a 20 something y/o man.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/06/lay-the-gay-to-rest/
May 20 2011
“…Australian English spelling sides with its ‘bigger’ brother, the ol’ Brits, on all things grammar, but where does Canada buzz in this spelling bee? True to its international diplomatic image, Canada sits on the fence and takes bits and pieces from both sides.”
[Misspelled outburst on Canadian spelling - the debate continues...]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/to-%e2%80%9czee%e2%80%9d-or-not-to-%e2%80%9czee%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9ces%e2%80%9d-or-no/
May 17 2011
“…This is about plain packaged cigarettes, I didn’t even think, “My god, I might think about not smoking but I definitively am NOT eating olives. Ever. Again.””
[Post on how a recent news article re the Australian Olive Association weasling their way in the Fed Govt's plain packaged cigarette intiative.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/cigarettes-or-olives-what-are-more-disgusting/
May 13 2011
“…I do acknowledge that perhaps the two above situations are less of what they think about Australians as a whole and more about of what they think I am capable.”
[Drunken outburst on how I am *not* ridding any Australian stereotypes.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/lost-in-translation/
May 11 2011
“…I resisted the urge to chest-bump my manager for making my ‘dream job title’ come true – instead I pumped my fist in the air and said, “Woo! I like being foreign!””
[Giddy outburst about being offered a foreign correspondent gig for a Canadian publication, reporting on Australian issues.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/how-to-instantly-feel-younger-realise-your-childhood-dreams/
