Up Front and Personal: A Confession and a Tribute

When some friends complimented me on my website, I just had to make a clean breast of it: somebody did it for me.

Last year, after it was clear that the media no longer wanted to publish my political commentaries—or only very selectively—I decided to go online and create my own website for them. But being abysmally ignorant of all new forms of technology, I sought the help of a friend who put me in touch with Junjie, a graduate from NTU who is now conducting photography courses in Singapore. From that moment, it was all go! Once he understood my needs and preferences, Junjie set about conceptualising, designing and then setting up the website and has since worked to continually update and improve it. In the process, he was even prepared to conspire with the camera to accommodate my many vanities, using only those pictures that cleverly disguised my age!

I fear that with such helpful technological virtuosos like Junjie around, I will continue to be a ‘techno-bodoh’ among digeratis.