Perceived lack of linguistic ability

Miss Lee,

Tell ALL his readers this was the reason why it all happened.

On record the man asked a very simple question, till today on record the Singapore Angle has not even responded.

Go and tell your read group that is the reason and the only reason, it has nothing to do with the council, that is a secondary. I here to make sure everything remains very clear, their history will never be wiped out as long as, I am here.

Go Miss Lee.

Yours very truthfully

Observer.

PS: That is a fact! Dont believe me ask Aaron, he will confirm the same.

“# Darkness Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 pm

http://intelligentsingaporean.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/intro-to-singapores-socio-political-blogosphere/

HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE TO MISS OUT THE BROTHERHOOD PRESS?

BECAUSE I CANNOT UNDERSTAND, CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME, PERHAPS A JOURNALIST, A BLOGGER OR EVEN A READER.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE MISSED US OUT BC I AM CERTAINLY NOT EVEN GETTING A SIMPLE ANSWER FROM THE PEOPLE WHO RUN SINGAPORE ANGLE OR EVEN MR BERNARD LEONG OR KEVIN LIM.

SO CAN SOMEONE PLS EXPLAIN TO ME?

Darkness 2007?

Miss Lee,

Tell ALL your readers, the man called darkness will return again.

This is not the end, it is only the beginning.

I am observer, the longest reader of the brotherhood. I know their ways.

Tell them ALL, the readers – they should never shed a tear. This is not the end.

I know how the readers are. They are always reading into things. I am observer the longest reader in the brotherhood. I know them all better than all of you put together.

I can assure of this.

He will return again so have faith and never ever despair.

I am not a fool and I will never place my trust on things that will not come true.

I will not wait in vain either.

If I am not certain of this why do you thing, I am doing all this? Think!

When they return this time, they will have their own blog. It will be theirs and theirs alone.

And the first question darkness will ask when he returns is the very same question he onced asked – he will get it either here or in the real world.

I know this man, that is to say, I know his spirit – it cannot be broken.

You do not know him like I know him.

Even the Council fears him!

This is just beginning. Never ever forget that. Do not despair.

Have faith, tell the rest of the readers never ever despair.

He will return again and fix everything back to the way it was again. I promise you.

Have faith, you must believe this with all your heart!

Darkness will return!

Yours very truthfully

Observer

You want prove. I observer will put my money where my mouth is my dear readers. This was broadcasted in the strangelands just 2 hours ago.

Why is so difficult to find a Singaporean Bill Gates? – A Journey To Self Discovery.

I am sure somewhere in Singapore there is a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to be found? We’ve just haven’t found him yet – have you ever wondered why Singapore doesn’t regularly produce these sort of mavericks. I am not talking about making money, that I am sure is important, rather the focus of this article is what does it really take to produce stuff that inspires meaningful to change in the way we work, live and play?

Is Singapore the place to produce these mavericks? As much as I like the idea supporting start-ups and nurturing entrepreneurship holds the key. By nurturing budding inventors, mentoring scientist, nourishing visionaries or even tooling good managers. I remain skeptical.

Do you really want to know why and what I believe it takes to be the next Singaporean Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? (cut off)

Well before I begin, let me just say, I have as much credentials to talk about this subject as a bald headed man trying to sell you a comb. I am still one of those who haven’t really made it, rubber bands, superglue and duct tape still feature in my life to remind me, I am a long way from the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs– but there is one area where I do know a whole lot about, that’s the whole process of leveraging on innovation and creativity to create competitive advantage. I mean, I don’t know it like how it’s so often used today as a bag word when one hears it spoken on the radio, TV or even when one reads about it – I know it from the inside out, there’s a big difference, because if you really took the trouble to ask any of these people who regularly use these bag words. I guarantee, you’ve be hard pressed to get even one sentence of what they really mean when they use that term innovation and creativity.

In a sense when I see it being used so often these days to sell products, services and even justify ideas – the real meaning of “innovation and creativity,” is leaching away faster than a sugar cube in hot tea. There’s even the real danger it would probably end up being one of those words, like ‘your sincerely’ where we don’t even know what it really entails.

Let me give you an example of what I mean by a bag word, one bank describes its function as “leveraging its regional network to provide interconnectivity solutions by providing a portal to diverse markets.” I mean what does that mean? I really have no idea. I guess if you break it down with a sledge hammer, I means they’re there to help their customers wherever they are (period).

That in a nutshell is what the phrase “innovation and creativity” suffers from – large doses of gobbledygook and deficits of common sense.

And this brings into sharp focus my first point: if you really want to know what makes Bill Gates, Bill Gates – you first need to gut out much of the mumbo jumbo that is associated with the word “innovation and creativity.” That’s to say, you need to be able to pin that sucker down in a Petri dish and pick it up with a pair of forceps and say, that’s what it is – I see it and this is what it looks like. Sure “innovation and creativity” means different things to a scientist as it does to a common sense scholar, but lets be clear about it, if you don’t even have an inkling what it really means you might as well throw a dart from space and try to hit the bulls eye in some board in any pub – probabilities don’t make possibilities.

You just don’t know – and in short it just means, when you use those words they are convenient sound bites that mean very little and probably has as much inspirational quotient as graffiti in the shit cubicle.

Let’s get real – if words are like “innovation & creativity” is to transcend their dictionary meaning, it needs to take stock of the reality words apply directly to living communities. To give them a sense of scale that allows others to make sense of these words, they need to be de-constructed into the ordinary language where people can make sense of their meaning on a daily basis and even weave it into their life – it doesn’t really matter whether it is trying win the Nobel prize or to write that article your editor has been hounding you over. You first need to get first things first by getting a handle of on the word innovation and creativity.

That’s why when I hear words like “innovation and creativity” being used as an adjunct or at the end of a general statement and recently even “passion” has being thrown in for good measure, it irks me to enough to ask: how much do these people really know what they’re really talking about?

My point is this, if we are to progress, we need a clearer picture of what innovation and creative really means not from the outside only but beyond the mythology often clouds the whole picture of what really separates the winners from the losers – truth of the matter is Bill Gates was no more an innovator than someone who just extended the scope of on established idea. This may come as a big fat surprise to many, but you can go and check it out, if you don’t believe it – Microsoft word wasn’t a new revolutionary idea anymore than the steam engine was new to inventors who studied it and made it run on fuel instead of coal – it’s an idea that’s not so different from how the printing press gave way to paper and how Microsoft word was simply an extension of an established concept – that IBM bought into when they selected MS for the operating system of their new PC and made it an open standard. To put it in the right perspective – that’s what we typically term “innovation and creativity” it isn’t so much big bang theory stuff like splitting the atom as it is gloss on an old idea. Getting out of the hyped and spin sets the right perspective, it allows us to set realistic expectations and dramatically improves our chances of success in pursuing innovative and creative enterprises.

I feel qualified to say this because I being there, run the gauntlet even, got the T shirt seen it all. My first invention was termed as a dumber than dumb product. It didn’t stop me working on day and night in my kitchen. I even sold my car, house and everything and most of it is still floating around in ebay. Even today, I have absolutely no idea what I was really doing or even why – I just did it – I guess if you’re looking for a historical precedent that explains this sort of madness, it’s to be found in the silicon valley phenomenon of the 1970s which literally spawned garage industries powered solely by the dreams of young men and women. Not everything needs a really deep philosophical reason sometimes it just feels good to make stuff work.

That’s a far cry from an established formulaic approach that is currently sold and marketed as the great hope of innovation and creativity these days where polished science parks form the backdrop along with well paid and high educated people who go around spouting about innovation and creativity when they don’t even have a single patent that’s passed from the realm of theory, manufacturability to commercial success.

In truth the real innovators are people who all have this craving hunger and most of them are hanging out in garages soldering lousy components – as for the government, they don’t even feature, yes occasionally the dengue mosquito Mr fatso man makes his rounds and knocks on my door to check the flower pots. Or maybe a nice girl in a short skirt from the feed back unit flashes her card along with other stuff and ask whether I think a meteorite is going hit Singapore within the next 5 years – what they hell do you expect me to say after living like a caveman in my kitchen for 30 days – yes la and while we are at it let’s skip the foreplay and get down to the serious business of species preservation!

As for my dumb invention it failed, for years it languished in obscurity, despite my best efforts to promote it locally. Eventually, I tucked away in a shoe box and slipped it underneath my bed – by boss Dr Pang was right, “hey you think you are so smart! Let me tell you this, whatever is in your brain or will be in it has already being thought through by some ang moh!” Yeap he was right, I sold everything, placed it all on a number and lost it all – even lost my job and had to resort to writing love novels to pay off my debts. By that time, the only innovation and creativity I was reduced too staving off the heavily tattooed Ah Long. And the only “passion,” was the prospects of being nailed to a cross if I didn’t pay up my debts.

But as the sages say, we plan our lives only to be ruled by the god of accidents, on January 17, 1995 at 5:46:46 EMT in the Kobe a mother of an earthquake measuring 7.3 Richter struck with a force of at least 5 atomic bombs – overnight, that dumber than dumb bolt, I invented was pushed to the forefront, it didn’t make the headlines, not even as much as a ripple, but today, it’s used in bridges, rail road tracks, nuclear reactors and even mountain bikes.

Eventually, my patent was sold off for a modest fee to a Japanese firm specializing in toolsets – there was no fanfare – no confetti – no sense of vindication not even the slightest wave of redemption that comes from seeing a thing successfully through – It was a silent victory one which I celebrated all alone with a big Mac and a super sized coke laced with some cheap whisky in McDonalds. You could this is how the story isn’t supposed to end but what I say? I only live once and I am telling it the way it panned out.

I suppose what preoccupied me most during that period was only what I can describe as deep reflection what it is means to be proven so right, its an anti-climax, I realized – life is best understood as a learning journey, and we must all accept what comes to us in the guise of failure and adversity are all grist to the mill – innovation, creativity and passion, I realized aren’t just simply sound bites to be used and abused, they may be to others like some guy who stands up there in the podium or to even the pastor who drives a sports car who keeps talking about it – it’s a deep spirited commitment to the path of seeing a thing through and believing it will one day work out. I realized even those who are best qualified to talk about it aren’t so much possessors of these vision but merely their custodians – the quest I realized for searching for the likes of Bill Gates in Singapore was futile, misplaced even. Only because the role of leaders is not to put greatness into people but to elicit what’s already in all of us. For if the truth be known, Bill Gates is already in every single one of us.

That’s a good start a very good start only because it starts from the inside out this time!

[This has been brought to you by Aurora / written by Darkness / Technology / Economics 983728597 ES The Brotherhood Press 2007]

Do you believe me now? Darkness will return!