mrbrown: It's going to be a very busy October in Singapore

You will need to excuse me if I am a little cranky today.

I am on very strong antibiotics for a nasty throat infection and combined with some cough mixture, I am generally getting through the day looking like I am on weed.

Losing my voice at the beginning of the week made me absolutely miserable. But it made my office colleagues very happy. When I declared with gestures that I had lost my voice, a few cheered and took off their headphones for the day.

Thanks, guys.

Speaking without talking

Being unable to speak meant that I had to take my ranting and random thoughts onto the Internet. Thank goodness for Twitter.

For example, this one floated around my Facebook and Twitter stream and drove me bananas: "Three Apples changed the world: the one that Adam ate, the one that fell on Newton, and the one that Steve Jobs created."

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I mourn the loss of Steve Job's passing as deeply as the next guy but, come on, Adam did not eat an apple and an apple did not fall on Newton's head.

Singapore [heart] Facebook

Speaking of Facebook, according to a Hitwise report, Singapore spends more time on Facebook than any other country. In August, people in Singapore spent 38 minutes and 46 seconds per Facebook session.

I was so excited learning about this that I wanted to share this on my Facebook right away.

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I attribute our obsession with Facebook to a very mobile and connected nation. Everywhere you turn, my countrymen have their faces buried in their iPhones, watching videos, playing games and, yes, surfing Facebook.

We should invent a device that allows you to mount an iPhone so that it is always in front of you, like a car dashboard mount. That will leave your hands free to do other useful things, like picking your nose and holding a train railing so you won't fall down when the train lurches.

To Siri, or not to Siri

Also, the iPhone-5-that-was-actually-iPhone-4S was finally announced. We will bitch and moan that it was not the iPhone 5 we were expecting … and buy it anyway. I am staying away from the crazy queues on October 28.

I really wanted the iPhone 5 to have a larger screen, a thinner casing, and the ability to grow me a full luxurious head of hair, but I will settle for the dual-core A5 processor, 8mp camera and new voice-controlled AI assistant, Siri.

Apple's Siri worries me.

Years from now, when Skynet becomes self-aware and decides to enslave mankind, we will regret that we didn't recognize that S.I.R.I. actually stood for Skynet Inside, Reboot to Install.

Then I will be forced to send a Terminator back in time to tell my wife to put my collection of Star Wars action figures in a safe place before the coming Judgement Day.

Secretly, another group of mobile phones were already planning a counter-attack to a Siri/Skynet apocalypse. An LG Optimus smartphone will combine with a Samsung Nexus Prime smartphone, and Optimus Nexus Prime will rise up with his Autobots to battle Siri/Skynet.

You can tell I spend too much time around mobile devices and robot movies.

Transformers can't afford to transform in Singapore

I think Singapore will not be able to fight back a Siri/Skynet attack with Autobots though.

It would cost too much to be a car that transforms into a robot in Singapore, what with the government announcing that it will curb car ownership further.

Yes, the piece of paper called Certificate of Entitlement (COE) which we bid for just for the right to BUY a car, will cost even more now.

Our transport minister tells us we are running out of space to build new roads and even with the current measures to curb car growth, it will not be enough.

Bumble Bee and his car robot friends won't be able to make Singapore their home, I'm afraid.

Maybe they can try taking the form of a public bus or an MRT train. It's not as cool as a Camaro but it will cost less and the Autobots can carry more passengers.

I wouldn't mind riding an MRT train that is actually a Transformer. We can name him Telok Blangah Prime, after Telok Blangah MRT station, one of the final 12 stations of Circle Line that are due to start operating on October 8. That will make him sound like a condo project though.

I am certainly looking forward to the opening of these final 12 stations on the Circle Line. I live and work along the Circle Line so the completion of the remaining stations will be great.

My only beef is that the Circle Line is not really a circle. The two end stations, CC1 Dhoby Ghaut and CC29 Harbourfront, do not connect to each other, unlike the Yamanote Line in Toyko.

I propose we rename the Circle Line to Somewhat Circle Line. Or Semi-circle Line. And besides, how can a circle be a Line?