Monday, April 11, 2005
Xiaxue Balik Kampong

Just a short post to diss Miss Wendy Cheng and her TNP "columns".As most people will know by now,Miss Wendy Cheng is Miss Xiaxue.Most popular blog in Singapore,best Asian blog awarded by I am not sure who and well,whatever other accolades some other online groups might have bestowed upon her.

So she gains some shame,gets a lot of readers on her blog and TNP saw fit to invite her to start writing stuff on the online version of TNP.There is only one major problem.

Xiaxue strived on cussing and cursing,leveraging on lewd and vulgar language and/or content and generally just being rude.Those were the unique selling points of her blog whihc made it popular and sometimes,funny.Stripped of all these elements to suit the populist taste of the popular media,her columns are frankly an embarrassment.

There is an almost embarrassing lack of depth or insight in her content (which isn't a surprise since her contents were never strong even on her blog anyway)but now,there isn't even a sensationalist style to it which could sell itself to public audiences.Read her column and tell me that if any Tom,Dick,Harry or Susan you pluck off the MRT couldn't write the same polite fluff.I bet you.Hell,I think the NKF kid who writes contributes his own personal columns in Today writes better than her.The boy at least has his thoughts that didn't seem recycled.

No f#$%,no sex,no cock,no words of this kind...why would we want to read a Xiaxue column?Could someone please answer me?Go back to writing your blog and about having sex with Tay Ping Hui lah,Xiaxue.You think you are a budding journalist?You ain't.Your language and insights isn't half good enough.Stop embarrassing yourself,Wendy and balik kampong to where you came from.That platform just suits you better...and maybe it's about the highest level you can aspire to.

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