11/12
It’s 2012. 2/365. In navigating this blog, I was greeted with a thick layer of dust; a lot of space and time has passed. 2011 has seen my person being mentally and emotionally hanged, drawn and quartered. I’m much the stronger and wiser for the experiences, but golly are the scabs itchy and the healed … Read more
Question:
Why should we be asking a Canadian born living and working in London about how to make our city a better place? This I ask not because I feel the Canadian wouldn’t be perceptive to what makes Singapore tick nor that he wouldn’t have fine and acute suggestions on how this clock could be fine … Read more
I am back in the motherland, Singapore.
1. Traumatising progress tutorial with my lecturer 2. Spring in full swing 3. A more than rewarding internship at Monocle 4. Flight back to Singapore 5. Getting to hold my youngest niece for the first time, finally… Essentially, a lot of things have been happening the past couple of months. Brilliant amazing things. Sitting on … Read more
The Arts under Politics’ iron grip…
Activist artist Ai Weiwei gestures while speaking to journalists gathered outside his home in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Ai, the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists in China, has returned home late Wednesday after nearly three months in detention. The official Xinhua News Agency said Ai confessed to tax evasion, … Read more
“It’s not meant to make sense…”
And nothing. Absolutely nothing. The lines so rehearsed in her mind, released into the atmosphere produced no effective reaction, no constructive suggestion… “That’s fine”, she thought. What had she hoped for, really? A ground breaking piece of news; something to either confirm or deny her speculative thoughts? Laconically, she had hope for a clarity of … Read more
“Say something, anything…!”
“But, what do you want me to say? That I’m sorry? That I regret what happened? That my over thinking, my over analysing caused the crumble of something so bitter sweet? Yes, it was bitter sweet. It was definitely bitter sweet for me. That latent space that I alluded to allow to exist between us; … Read more
England’s Lake District
What a wonderful time. The air was fresh and crisp. The company, stellar. The only regret was that it was so short… [photos 1-4: Karen Desilva; photos 5-10: Ryan Harding]
Alexandre Mattiussi
If still involved in the fashion world, I would have relished being a men’s buyer. The understated elegance of an at once visual-intriguingly clothed man is often overlooked. One simple step: Alexander Mattiussi a créé AMI Instantly: Seduction The simple and elegant lines of Alexandre Mattiussi’s début collection speak of an appreciation of the male; … Read more
Volodymyr Repik
This image arrested my attention. [Excerpt from Artdaily.org] In this 1986 photo, a helicopter throwing chemicals to suppress radiation approaches the 4th destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in. On May 12, 1986, more than two weeks after the explosion, the leading Soviet daily newspaper Pravda published its first photograph from the site … Read more
ASOBI SEKSU at XOYO
The ear drums still ring with the blasts of the chords of Asobi Seksu’s encore performance of Red Sea. I’m still a little saddened at the fact that they did not play Familiar Light, but they made it up to me by putting on an overall satisfactory performance on Tuesday night at XOYO. I have … Read more
