Don't know if you guys have seen this before but.. Please see this in sequence!
Originals
Spoofs
Originals are courtesy of our taiwanese design ambassador. And spoofs, courtesy of me! The name Gary is like.. joke enough :D
Friday, May 30
Thursday, May 29
when i say zeit you say geist
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E5CBBC4F755FC66F
Perkish D'Lite Volume 2 (The Gardenist Manifesto):
1. DRYFYU - DJ Bay-B & Culture St. Luke
2. Untrust Us - Crystal Castles
3. Opening Up (Ce Soir on Danse) - Chromeo
4. Lights Out - Santogold
5. Water - The Padres
6. Ba-Na-Na - M.I.A.
7. Cosmic Girl (Dimitri from Paris Remix) - Jamiroquai
8. Seventeen - Ladytron
9. Harder Better Faster Stronger (The Neptunes Remix) - Daft Punk
10. Ready For The Floor - Hot Chip
11. Home Zone - Digitalism
12. 4 Words - Janet Jackson
13. Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis
Another kind invitation from G (and strangely not darryl)
Salutations to the Underground!Come Saturday, the 31st of May, Furor-Space is hosting No.3, the third installment of the RAGE programme.
This time around, eleven artists will deal with the theme, "Impact vs. Gimmick". The ever continuing tug of war between impactful works and when that crosses over to being a plain gimmick.
Artists Involved:
Todd
UAN
Rubin Deadfingers BH
Amanda Cain
Angela Chong
Animesh
Cassandra Hale
Ezz@m Rahman
Fyerool Darma
The Paper Donkey
Syed Muhd Hafiz
Opening Reception will be on the 31st of May, Saturday at 7pm over at Furor-Space, Gallery for Underground Art at 26A Haji Lane.
The showcase will run from the 31st of May until the 7th of June 2008. Due to an overwhelming amount of activities and workload, gallery visitations will be by appointment only.
To visit the showcase on days after the opening, kindly give Todd a call over at 98733578 to arrange for an appointment.
Cheers and see you all there!
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Eh Darryl, isn't furor space Rubin's gallery? How come I am always hearing about Rubin's exhibitions through G and not YOU? WHAT AND WHY? Explain yourself. Are you hiding fun events to yourself huh! you shit lemming you.
I will buy u a new life
not. i just wanted to remind everyone of this teenage song.
My first compilation will be of 90s songs. U all will thank me for it!
:D
Byes !
My first compilation will be of 90s songs. U all will thank me for it!
:D
Byes !
Wednesday, May 28
mt9
So the Korean's made a file format which means that you can split the different instruments in music. I think if I'm right, on a basic mixer you have base, mid and treble: you mix frequencies of noise - not instruments. This format means that you could do both and would presumably make Djing a million times more interesting - this stuff is no longer necessary. There are 1000 people in MIT jerking off to this news right now.
babyRambles says
(i have failed to sleep before 12mm yet again. ugh. ok i will try again tomorrow.)
calico, i finally grew some mint, come over to my house and we'll have some p-mint tea! let's do this while reading jane rendell's 'art and architecture'. yes?
darryl, i'm sorry if i was too harsh on you. i am praying for your father.
hon, i'm starting to suspect that you don't even read lemmings! where the heck are you!
jessicat, let's bump into each other more often. i'm gonna purposely hang around waterloo street.
charlie, thanks for posting on lemmings! how come you never comment on the new lemming group picture? ps. i think it is very witty.
(everybody try this fun activity: give yourself a max. of 10mins to pick out your outfit everyday for the next 3 days. i discovered that by doing this, our minds will be forced to think creatively and almost instantly. i end up picking things that are much cooler than i normally wud've. i also think that its much cooler because i put in less effort but still look equally fun. and i lurve the fact that i care less about my clothes. speaking of which, i am dying to give away my stuff! calico you can have all my topshop stuff - but unfortunately it's just one black blazer that you might hate. you also can have my french kitty bag. and hon, would you like my nicole farhi jacket? it's probably the only thing i have that you might wanna wear. and do you remember those crane earrings i bought from h&m in shanghai? you can have that too, i haven't worn it yet. and if you wanna borrow my china worker canvas shoes (the one you also wanted), just let me know. jessicat, you are too thin to fit in my clothes. but i really want to give you something as well. would you like a pair of neon green and black suspenders? anyway you guys, if there's something that you want -that you've seen me wear- please just take it away from me. i am trying to live like a villager and so i need to divorce myself from these things that used to matter so much to me. oh yes, and i'm gonna split my earrings treasure amongst you three - i probably have like a thousand pairs of them. no kidding. you better be mentally prepared.)
((ps: is this style of writing cool? i'm trying to write in a manner that is as reflective as possible. i dunno why i just end up sounding like an angry bitch most of the time on lemmings. i am really not angry at all. i think that recent times are possibly the happiest days of my 24 years, by far. ))
calico, i finally grew some mint, come over to my house and we'll have some p-mint tea! let's do this while reading jane rendell's 'art and architecture'. yes?
darryl, i'm sorry if i was too harsh on you. i am praying for your father.
hon, i'm starting to suspect that you don't even read lemmings! where the heck are you!
jessicat, let's bump into each other more often. i'm gonna purposely hang around waterloo street.
charlie, thanks for posting on lemmings! how come you never comment on the new lemming group picture? ps. i think it is very witty.
(everybody try this fun activity: give yourself a max. of 10mins to pick out your outfit everyday for the next 3 days. i discovered that by doing this, our minds will be forced to think creatively and almost instantly. i end up picking things that are much cooler than i normally wud've. i also think that its much cooler because i put in less effort but still look equally fun. and i lurve the fact that i care less about my clothes. speaking of which, i am dying to give away my stuff! calico you can have all my topshop stuff - but unfortunately it's just one black blazer that you might hate. you also can have my french kitty bag. and hon, would you like my nicole farhi jacket? it's probably the only thing i have that you might wanna wear. and do you remember those crane earrings i bought from h&m in shanghai? you can have that too, i haven't worn it yet. and if you wanna borrow my china worker canvas shoes (the one you also wanted), just let me know. jessicat, you are too thin to fit in my clothes. but i really want to give you something as well. would you like a pair of neon green and black suspenders? anyway you guys, if there's something that you want -that you've seen me wear- please just take it away from me. i am trying to live like a villager and so i need to divorce myself from these things that used to matter so much to me. oh yes, and i'm gonna split my earrings treasure amongst you three - i probably have like a thousand pairs of them. no kidding. you better be mentally prepared.)
((ps: is this style of writing cool? i'm trying to write in a manner that is as reflective as possible. i dunno why i just end up sounding like an angry bitch most of the time on lemmings. i am really not angry at all. i think that recent times are possibly the happiest days of my 24 years, by far. ))
Tuesday, May 27
Glance of the Day: I preferred 1998 but...
Here is AMG's top songs of 1999:
Allmusic loves 1999
I can't agree so much with it. But just as a reference!
Allmusic loves 1999
I can't agree so much with it. But just as a reference!
confession
I am a sucker for such lyrics. Am I the only one who thinks they're funny and somewhat charming? :D hehe. Please guess which line is my favourite!
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Let me tell you that i saw your boyfriend walking down the street,
he was standin all shaky, hands all sweaty, and he could hardly speak.
I might as well take a minute or two, to put you on to some game,
you want a boy like him and a man like me and thats just not the same.
Never mind an sms, what you need is a sweet caress,
everybody wanna talk too much, what you need is a special touch.
Ooh girl wouldn't that feel right, a little dinner with a candle light
and really when it comes down to it, pick a man thats down to fight.
Chorus -
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old.
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old (ow)
Let me tell you that i saw your boyfriend walkin down the road,
he was standin all shook, couldn't even look, and i was extra cold.
I might as well take a minute or two to talk about the perks,
Cause he cant compete with a man like me, and thats just how it works.
Look, this comes as no surprise, what you need is an older guy
with a little bit of life experience, the right clothes and the right appearance.
Oh girl wouldn't that feel nice, hot dinner with the candlelight,
and really when it gets down to it, pick a man thats down to fight.
Chorus-
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old (ow)
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh X4
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Let me tell you that i saw your boyfriend walking down the street,
he was standin all shaky, hands all sweaty, and he could hardly speak.
I might as well take a minute or two, to put you on to some game,
you want a boy like him and a man like me and thats just not the same.
Never mind an sms, what you need is a sweet caress,
everybody wanna talk too much, what you need is a special touch.
Ooh girl wouldn't that feel right, a little dinner with a candle light
and really when it comes down to it, pick a man thats down to fight.
Chorus -
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old.
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old (ow)
Let me tell you that i saw your boyfriend walkin down the road,
he was standin all shook, couldn't even look, and i was extra cold.
I might as well take a minute or two to talk about the perks,
Cause he cant compete with a man like me, and thats just how it works.
Look, this comes as no surprise, what you need is an older guy
with a little bit of life experience, the right clothes and the right appearance.
Oh girl wouldn't that feel nice, hot dinner with the candlelight,
and really when it gets down to it, pick a man thats down to fight.
Chorus-
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old
I'll give you bonafide lovin (oh oh oh oh)
The type that makes me feel old (ow)
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh X4
Monday, May 26
Nerdy but true
I have started a blog for my dissertation!
See it at:
www.calicoup.blogspot.com
While it is great that I can get people to review(well sometimes it might be great) on the things I have read/ my thoughts.. Nothing will mean more to me than comments from alll of you Lemmings! :)
But, its currently in quite an angry state because:
1) I haven't read so much so all I have done is to document some queries that i have. I haven't even stated my dissertation topic. But anyway u guys don't have to comment yet but do check back in the future!
2) I have been stuck at home for too long. I need to get out!!
PS. will u start one for your dissertation too, Lemming-R?
See it at:
www.calicoup.blogspot.com
While it is great that I can get people to review(well sometimes it might be great) on the things I have read/ my thoughts.. Nothing will mean more to me than comments from alll of you Lemmings! :)
But, its currently in quite an angry state because:
1) I haven't read so much so all I have done is to document some queries that i have. I haven't even stated my dissertation topic. But anyway u guys don't have to comment yet but do check back in the future!
2) I have been stuck at home for too long. I need to get out!!
PS. will u start one for your dissertation too, Lemming-R?
lemmings go fishing
darryl's big catch.
fishing expert i am not.
paradise!Had the most fabulous time over the weekend. I am tired but happy. I probably need a good rest before I can start to put everything I've learnt from this wonderful place into perspective. Those pictures above are my new take on Malaysia. Just look at this place! It's in Johor. What a hidden gem! On other -life changing- matters, I witnessed some young girls' sincerity (that put me to shame), teenagers' awe-striking wisdom, 20-somethings' mad zeal and older folks' burning passion for life. I also met someone who told me, "Love isn't love until it is given away." This person is a such living testimony, his name is Tony. He said that he lives each day on borrowed time because when he was 15 he was convinced that his life was going to end at 30 (like his father). I was so ashamed when I heard this - not because I didn't think that I was going to die young but because I really take my days for granted. Every time I am lamenting over dissertation and getting angry over shits that don't matter, here is this one man, thankful that God has given him another day on earth. I mean like....will you think about this for a moment?
I want to be able to thank God from the bottom of my heart for my every waking hour because that is more than enough for me. I really need to start being grateful. ps: Tony is probably near his 50s.
Sunday, May 25
Re-creating the 90s
Re-creating the 90s: An essay
I was looking at Youtube for old Garbage videos and i was trying to educate myself on the original few Garbage singles pre-secondary school that i didnt know of and i stumbled upon this:
I saw the vid.. and thought hmm very normal Garbage 1994-1996 stuff. Anyway i really liked it! and i listened to it repeatedly throughout my whole bus ride out to Starbucks and back. And i thought wow (!) garbage was really visionary. Firstly, the tune seemed to be a predecessor of many songs such as this by the Flaming Lips..:
and even (very uninspiringly -__- ) this by the Pipettes (i just saw some instructional dance video of them on youtube, why would we need Them to teach us how to dance? ..):
So they were that influential?
And i really liked it cos it really reminded me of the 90s - i mean the lyrics. Its nothing deep but very 90s alternative simple teenage angst (versus todays complicated teenage emo angst). And i thought to myself, i wish 90s alternative music could last forever. U know like smashing pumpkins blahblah sigh. One day when i get to media lab or some alternative, thats gonna be my project. To be able to come up with a program to 90s-fy songs, like everything about it, instruments, beats, riffs, down to lyrics, then anyone will be able to re-create 90s culture anytime on anything. And like Shirley Manson.. its debatable but she was like.. the original Gwen Stefani!
Its also my reaction to watching Indiana Jones yesterday.. the show was ok in terms of adventure. What was really great is that Indy didnt change (other than Harrison Ford growing old), the lines that they spoke, the type of adventure, the setting (some Mayan temple equivalent again - which are what my childhood dream destinations are made of).. everything ! Just to spoil everyones movie, i also want to say.. down to a certain alien in the show! the alien was damn old school it was great! the movie was really sweet.
I read on IMDB that that was Steven Spielberg's intention anyway. So my idea is to be able to have some intelligent system do that for us ;)
The ending: Back to Garbage, I came back and did some research on the song. It was written and released in 2007 !!! What the. How did they manage to do that? So much for all these thoughts and feelings! Such is the irony of pop music industry(if u read the article, the video - so 90s looking was directed by Gwen Stefani's brother) How should i feel now?
The end.
(please feel free to disagree about anything hee)
I was looking at Youtube for old Garbage videos and i was trying to educate myself on the original few Garbage singles pre-secondary school that i didnt know of and i stumbled upon this:
I saw the vid.. and thought hmm very normal Garbage 1994-1996 stuff. Anyway i really liked it! and i listened to it repeatedly throughout my whole bus ride out to Starbucks and back. And i thought wow (!) garbage was really visionary. Firstly, the tune seemed to be a predecessor of many songs such as this by the Flaming Lips..:
and even (very uninspiringly -__- ) this by the Pipettes (i just saw some instructional dance video of them on youtube, why would we need Them to teach us how to dance? ..):
So they were that influential?
And i really liked it cos it really reminded me of the 90s - i mean the lyrics. Its nothing deep but very 90s alternative simple teenage angst (versus todays complicated teenage emo angst). And i thought to myself, i wish 90s alternative music could last forever. U know like smashing pumpkins blahblah sigh. One day when i get to media lab or some alternative, thats gonna be my project. To be able to come up with a program to 90s-fy songs, like everything about it, instruments, beats, riffs, down to lyrics, then anyone will be able to re-create 90s culture anytime on anything. And like Shirley Manson.. its debatable but she was like.. the original Gwen Stefani!
Its also my reaction to watching Indiana Jones yesterday.. the show was ok in terms of adventure. What was really great is that Indy didnt change (other than Harrison Ford growing old), the lines that they spoke, the type of adventure, the setting (some Mayan temple equivalent again - which are what my childhood dream destinations are made of).. everything ! Just to spoil everyones movie, i also want to say.. down to a certain alien in the show! the alien was damn old school it was great! the movie was really sweet.
I read on IMDB that that was Steven Spielberg's intention anyway. So my idea is to be able to have some intelligent system do that for us ;)
The ending: Back to Garbage, I came back and did some research on the song. It was written and released in 2007 !!! What the. How did they manage to do that? So much for all these thoughts and feelings! Such is the irony of pop music industry(if u read the article, the video - so 90s looking was directed by Gwen Stefani's brother) How should i feel now?
The end.
(please feel free to disagree about anything hee)
Saturday, May 24
happy camper R
Dear darlings,
i am off to malaysia for the weekend, please miss me while i frolic in nature!
lovelovelove,
R-chetype
i am off to malaysia for the weekend, please miss me while i frolic in nature!
lovelovelove,
R-chetype
Friday, May 23
X style mindless style X
I really want a pair of aquablue chucks right now (yes, I eat my own words when I said I will never wear converse). I have this mad desire to wear them with frilly children socks. I REALLY REALLY WANT TO! I have tons of kiddy socks in my cupboard and like every other childhood garment - I can still fit into some of them. I don't know how I'm going to acquire this pair of blue darlings though, now that I have given up excessive shopping. I will either have to win it in a converse contest/ coerce someone against their will to buy them for me/ just bloody wear those socks with the other 10,000 pairs of shoes I've got.
Tough Practice (of the day)
Might not be the way u wanted to put it across last time.. but today is the day that I must learn not to put my hopes in people and events, Lemming-R!
I must also give a threshold to how much i feel about people/events. When it gets too much, I will just cease to care! That is.. advice from Grace :) Something i should learn from her ! hehe
What do u think R: Is it the role of an artist.. to be a thinker? (I don't even want to start on architects or designers)
Artists are people who feel strongly about an idea/issue. The solution might lie in the aesthetics they create but the idea can't be aesthetics. It is not the role of an artist to promote a form of aesthetics - it must be the idea. Aesthetics can't save the world. Or can it? now i contradict my previous dissertation stand. I need answers !
Maybe... i just need to stop being such an angry kid!
I must also give a threshold to how much i feel about people/events. When it gets too much, I will just cease to care! That is.. advice from Grace :) Something i should learn from her ! hehe
What do u think R: Is it the role of an artist.. to be a thinker? (I don't even want to start on architects or designers)
Artists are people who feel strongly about an idea/issue. The solution might lie in the aesthetics they create but the idea can't be aesthetics. It is not the role of an artist to promote a form of aesthetics - it must be the idea. Aesthetics can't save the world. Or can it? now i contradict my previous dissertation stand. I need answers !
Maybe... i just need to stop being such an angry kid!
i am in love
with Chromeo!
they are everything i fancy rolled into one - motown, synth distortions, hall and oats, new york gangsta, leotard girls, scruffy skinny men in glasses, airbrushed graphics, funk, love songs, big hair, candy floss, neon nike dunks - i have been dreaming about this particular sound for too long. these chromeo boys are totally it people, totally it! i could solo groove to this song forever. the best part is that they look nothing like their music.
i would have thought that they played either hip hop or distorted justice bangers. but no! they groove so much harder. they make hip hop goaties and white ray bans cool, like 3 cycles ahead cool. they make me wanna listen to mariah cos that would make me the same kind of cool.
they are everything i fancy rolled into one - motown, synth distortions, hall and oats, new york gangsta, leotard girls, scruffy skinny men in glasses, airbrushed graphics, funk, love songs, big hair, candy floss, neon nike dunks - i have been dreaming about this particular sound for too long. these chromeo boys are totally it people, totally it! i could solo groove to this song forever. the best part is that they look nothing like their music.
i would have thought that they played either hip hop or distorted justice bangers. but no! they groove so much harder. they make hip hop goaties and white ray bans cool, like 3 cycles ahead cool. they make me wanna listen to mariah cos that would make me the same kind of cool.
this is pasta and this is lasagna
More eye candy at http://www.flickr.com/photos/calicocali/Jesssicat! You should have been there!
ps. what happened to pamela?
Thursday, May 22
Oh kill me now i think i squashed a bug ;)
Garbage's MTV for Is it College Yet?
(check out how they really look like us at the end of the vid)
Will we ever stop quoting these songs? ..Our theme song comes in at 3:09 (!)
he was there
James Nachtwey rules so much. i am trying to find a way to grant his TED Wish in London at the moment. basically involves trying to find buildings to project things onto - but there aren't actually that many here.
Wednesday, May 21
Sunday, May 18
I bet today's a real good day for BALTIC :(
Many a fun things happening in newcastle as we speak. The next time I'm back in EU, I'm def gonna back there. I wanna eat shit sandwichese from GREGGS, walk down the city centre at x'mas, buy that tasty strawberry pie from M&S, go to Ricky road, shop at Wilkinsons, watch a play at Gateshead, make fun of the millennium bridge, buy yoshitomo nara stuff at highly inflated prices, get fined 35quid for not buying a train ticket. and buy that baltic ruler for calico.--- edited 20/05
http://www.evolutionfestival.co.uk/
Sunday entertainment news
http://www.pollthepeople.com
How accurate is each of this?
Mika as the top album :| and Girls Aloud so near behind :O and.. frigging Jonas brothers -_-
I never knew Pan's Labyrinth was so highly rated. I will go catch that soon!
How is Catcher in the Rye? I have it at home but im too lazy to readddd. ;)?
How accurate is each of this?
Mika as the top album :| and Girls Aloud so near behind :O and.. frigging Jonas brothers -_-
I never knew Pan's Labyrinth was so highly rated. I will go catch that soon!
How is Catcher in the Rye? I have it at home but im too lazy to readddd. ;)?
Saturday, May 17
Global cat
Maybe if i were one of them Kumartuli residents..
If i were one of Charlie's kind..
If i were one of em ghetto chicks..
Actually u know in all of these, i feel like i look british. A british indian.. a british caucasian and a british african american. In the african american one, I remind myself of that girl from Sugababes HEHE.
Love, Kid cat!
If i were one of Charlie's kind..
If i were one of em ghetto chicks..
Actually u know in all of these, i feel like i look british. A british indian.. a british caucasian and a british african american. In the african american one, I remind myself of that girl from Sugababes HEHE.
Love, Kid cat!
exercise of the day
thanks charlie! i had quite a good laugh. my Caucasian self looked as though i've got a terminal disease. i think i prefer my face in paintings heh heh - my fave is the 2nd last one from the batch above. happy weekend everyone! :D
Friday, May 16
chineasy trips
the best thing to come out of st.andrews since me.
me. old me. chinease me. live out your Caucasian fantasies ladies xxx
shit dreams are made of these
i just woke up from my nap and my heart is beating really fast. i dreamt that i was somebody's mistress. i was giving tuition to this man's kids in his house. and his wife was going out for a classical concert. i stared at her 3 kids, not knowing what to do with them. later this man appeared and asked me to give my ticket away - apparently i had also bought a ticket to the same concert. and so i did. gave it to another kid. the wife and that kid left the house. it was a big ass house.
now i'm at a party. i am sitting on a sofa - velvet, blood red. i am surrounded by middle age people, relatively wealthy ones too. suddenly the man appeared but i can't see his face. his presence was warm. he hugged me from behind and we crossed our fingers. i felt small. he was protecting me like in a womb. but we were sort of the same size strangely.
his wife appeared at the party and i started bleeding. i ran to the toilet and tried to wash off the blood but it wouldn't go away. it just kept flowing out through me.
then the man couldn't recognise me anymore - maybe he didn't want to. he sat there with his wife. i thought i should leave. so i did. and on my way out. i entered a new world. and everyone felt like they were living in a different timezone. a celebrity (i have no idea who she is, she's just a big star in the dream) asked me who designed the floor for a particular open plaza. i said to her, i don't f*ckin care about architecture right now. she said i was rude.
now i'm at a party. i am sitting on a sofa - velvet, blood red. i am surrounded by middle age people, relatively wealthy ones too. suddenly the man appeared but i can't see his face. his presence was warm. he hugged me from behind and we crossed our fingers. i felt small. he was protecting me like in a womb. but we were sort of the same size strangely.
his wife appeared at the party and i started bleeding. i ran to the toilet and tried to wash off the blood but it wouldn't go away. it just kept flowing out through me.
then the man couldn't recognise me anymore - maybe he didn't want to. he sat there with his wife. i thought i should leave. so i did. and on my way out. i entered a new world. and everyone felt like they were living in a different timezone. a celebrity (i have no idea who she is, she's just a big star in the dream) asked me who designed the floor for a particular open plaza. i said to her, i don't f*ckin care about architecture right now. she said i was rude.
ok Work !
After a serious chat with PB and Belinda today.. As of this moment, starting right now, my bumming days are officially over. Time to get responsible, and make things happen! Yeah !
Thursday, May 15
Welcome to Venice!/Tatey in Venice
Here's a quick sketch from Orchard Starbucks. I'm so glad u are joining me rachelleeeee (maestros). Love ! ;)
the joy of the Lord is my strength
Luke gave me this card 2 years ago when we both knew that we have already lost each other. This card is probably the only one thing from him that I still treasure. It used to sit quietly in my wallet but recently, I've moved it to my whiteboard. I don't particularly fancy the font or the graphics but it has such a powerful message - gives me all the comfort and strength that I need whenever I feel lousy. Someone in church once said to me jokingly that the one good thing that came out from my broken relationship was that I became a Christian. I was slightly offended when I heard it, it's just not the kind of thing you'd wanna joke about when you are trying to pick up the pieces of your shattered heart. But these days, I think that the person was not joking at all. They are probably the wisest words I've ever heard. It was not just a good thing that happened, it is the best thing. I lost Luke but gained an everlasting relationship with Jesus C.Nothing in this world will last forever, nothing in this world can sustain, support, satisfy, secure like God's love. Everything will fade away like the short-lived beauty of flowers. Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out of it.
Jesus Christ is the King of my heart.
Wednesday, May 14
Word of the day
Recce [read: rek-ee]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/recce
Embarrassingly(or not!) , i never knew this word seriously existed outside of Singlish. Is it currently being used in the right way in Singapore? I also never knew it was spelt this way, i didn't even know this word would have a proper spelling!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/recce
Embarrassingly(or not!) , i never knew this word seriously existed outside of Singlish. Is it currently being used in the right way in Singapore? I also never knew it was spelt this way, i didn't even know this word would have a proper spelling!
Tuesday, May 13
A crash course to performance art in Singapore: Part 1
My beloved Lemmings,
I have been working hard- sleeping an average of 4 hours a day since last Thursday. Can you imagine my tired face for a moment now? I'm too exhausted to type, my brain has stopped working at 4pm. So I'll just let these images talk to you, ok? You all have been in my thoughts, xxx.
Yawn prawn,
R
I met Amanda for the first time this morning at her Telok Kurau studio. Amanda is the kindest lady ever: she bought me both lunch and dinner, invited me to a seminar, introduced me to her friends and said I could call her anytime if I needed to go to her studio again.
Works from her past exhibition are slowly being eaten up by termites.
This hangs from her wall.
Cecily and Amanda buy curry puffs from a Malay lady at Bugis station. These 2 ladies are so fabulous.
A seminar (by a Lasalle Phd student) .
I looked around to check everybody else's reaction.
WOT IS SHEY TAWKIN ABOUT! (Charlie what do you think of her brit accent?)
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In celebration of my first Hebrew lesson tomorrow, I shall end off with a tasty treat for everyone.
I have been working hard- sleeping an average of 4 hours a day since last Thursday. Can you imagine my tired face for a moment now? I'm too exhausted to type, my brain has stopped working at 4pm. So I'll just let these images talk to you, ok? You all have been in my thoughts, xxx.
Yawn prawn,
R
I met Amanda for the first time this morning at her Telok Kurau studio. Amanda is the kindest lady ever: she bought me both lunch and dinner, invited me to a seminar, introduced me to her friends and said I could call her anytime if I needed to go to her studio again.
Works from her past exhibition are slowly being eaten up by termites.
This hangs from her wall.
Cecily and Amanda buy curry puffs from a Malay lady at Bugis station. These 2 ladies are so fabulous.
A seminar (by a Lasalle Phd student) .
I looked around to check everybody else's reaction.
WOT IS SHEY TAWKIN ABOUT! (Charlie what do you think of her brit accent?)
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In celebration of my first Hebrew lesson tomorrow, I shall end off with a tasty treat for everyone.
the badlands
A few things you might like to know about this image.
1. It's from my sitting room.
2. The pedestrian crossing was built while I was away - it enables people to seamlessly travel back and forth between the pub and the bookmakers beneath our flat.
3. in the road next to the pub you can see a police car. That's because a guy has just been bottled in a gang fight. At almost exactly the same time as this happened, a guy was stabbed on oxford street.
Sunday, May 11
the week work ended
This was some strange week. I can't even begin to describe it accurately. My last day at Arcstudio was tuesday and i tried to spend this week doing absolutely nothing productive just for a good break ( absolutely ignoring school emails!). At the end of it, i still feel so much dissatisfaction and so much disappointment.
Yesterday at Roger's bro's wedding, I lay on a bench at the Loof staring up at the sky and thinking and brooding about it (emo and uncool but true) and one of the gang friends told me that its the first time he's ever seen me not smiling.
But what drives my happiness? I dont even know.
Perhaps i just entered into a new phase but just haven't found a new philosophy yet. What music do i like now? What do i even care about in life now? What would make me happiest? What do i want to do most? I don't really have an idea. Did i, at any point in my life know it more? Why do i always feel like everytime i look back at some other phase in life that i used to understand myself abit better? How am i myself when i dont even seem to know or understand myself at all?
Im glad i saw my Friday friends at the wedding yesterday. It wasnt particularly a happy affair at the wedding but i just remembered how much they meant to me and it just put some structure back in my life (R: perhaps!)
friday gang at a wedding
Ok i will be happier soon (i promise!)
Yesterday at Roger's bro's wedding, I lay on a bench at the Loof staring up at the sky and thinking and brooding about it (emo and uncool but true) and one of the gang friends told me that its the first time he's ever seen me not smiling.
But what drives my happiness? I dont even know.
Perhaps i just entered into a new phase but just haven't found a new philosophy yet. What music do i like now? What do i even care about in life now? What would make me happiest? What do i want to do most? I don't really have an idea. Did i, at any point in my life know it more? Why do i always feel like everytime i look back at some other phase in life that i used to understand myself abit better? How am i myself when i dont even seem to know or understand myself at all?
Im glad i saw my Friday friends at the wedding yesterday. It wasnt particularly a happy affair at the wedding but i just remembered how much they meant to me and it just put some structure back in my life (R: perhaps!)
friday gang at a wedding
Ok i will be happier soon (i promise!)
This is really kinda shit
Rating: 2/5Like all flicks that are semi-tribute to bands, Control totally bored the hell out of me! I remembered watching Walk The Line and falling asleep after 3omins into the show. You know how you'd imagine how such shows would go? and then seeing that expectation unfold before you in the theatre? That is a spot-on shit feeling. I was hoping that this particular band film would be different since it had way ridiculously good reviews about it. But no. Half way through, I was hoping that Ian Curtis would quickly die and end it all for me. Got a bit pointless, really.
I guess this review is also biased because I am not even such a big fan of Joy Division to start off with. And watching this film definitely didn't make me wanna become one - I think it might have just made me not want to touch 'Substance' anytime soon for the next 3 years.
Picture above: Ian Curtis and Annik Honore or Jamie Cullum and Feist?
Saturday, May 10
Love
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthian 13: 4-7
1 Corinthian 13: 4-7
Friday, May 9
(Shameless) desserts for all
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4BFAC1C32EDDB32BPerkish D'Lite vol.1:
1. XR2 - M.I.A.
2. Stewie - 'The family guy' talking bottle opener/ key chain
3. I Got This Down - Simian Mobile Disco
4. The Greatest Hit - Annie
5. It's All About The Benjamins (Remix) - P Diddy & The Family feat. The Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim & The Lox
6. Heartbeats - The Knife
7. Shrimp - Mr. Scruff
8. The Mighty Boosh theme
9. The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
10. Wot U On - Dizzee Rascal
11. PWSteal.Ldpinch.D - AFX
12. First Breath After Coma - Explosions In The Sky
Thursday, May 8
tremble with a sigh/glitter in her eye
this person was in Leicester square yesterday. She's like a fake harajagu girl right? you know, only people in your part of the world wear shoes like that. today has been the third consecutive day of blue sky over the home counties which makes this the right day to to be listening to ride's vapour trail - i'm posting a video here of any bell singing it - who you may know now as the bassist in oasis. i love ride. but i was just too young to enjoy them properly.
Thank you
to Calico and the System for your help!
It has been just the most horrible week for me. But things are looking up quite miraculously, and I need to get organised. Urgh. I need to learn to do my best whether I feel like it or not, because things can't happen if I refuse to move. Cooping up at home the past 3 days made me bonkers. I was constantly doing one of these 3 things:
- panic binging (or panic in general)
- mindlessly staring at the computer screen
- reading shit literature
So sad, so so sad. But! No more putting myself down and stressing excessively over things that don't matter. I hope today will be a better day for me and for everyone. :)
Yo-Ho! To Bel Air!
It has been just the most horrible week for me. But things are looking up quite miraculously, and I need to get organised. Urgh. I need to learn to do my best whether I feel like it or not, because things can't happen if I refuse to move. Cooping up at home the past 3 days made me bonkers. I was constantly doing one of these 3 things:
- panic binging (or panic in general)
- mindlessly staring at the computer screen
- reading shit literature
So sad, so so sad. But! No more putting myself down and stressing excessively over things that don't matter. I hope today will be a better day for me and for everyone. :)
Yo-Ho! To Bel Air!
Dedication
Here's to you, R !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxoD_Ca8W9M
(especially 1:11!)
Please try to laugh during these trying times!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxoD_Ca8W9M
(especially 1:11!)
Please try to laugh during these trying times!
Wednesday, May 7
Tuesday, May 6
mine are not the views of other lemmings
Here in blighty Prospect Magazine have published their bi-yearly list of top public intellectuals. For some reason L*Y is in there. I have no idea if you think this is a good thing or not. For me it seems ironic that you could nominate someone who hates public intellectuals so much he designed them out of his society. Then again, he did knock up the best public housing scheme in the world, so maybe he can be forgiven. Anyway, Prospect is a pretty fresh, influential mag so if your nationalist blood keeps boiling, you can put a vote in for him. I was thinking of making a diamond encrusted ladies sexaid in the shape of L*Y as a response to the iht article - would that get me into a trendy gallery in haji lane? Clever, no?
Sorry I need to be tasteless again. In not completely unrelated events - these are truly the most filthy song-lyrics I have ever read - we gave this man a knighthood damn it!
I don't mind if you want to take my post down if I have been too crude in this post. I'll understand.
It's a hot day. So i'm pasting in Althea and Donna here. They both look a bit like you. Geroove.
Sorry I need to be tasteless again. In not completely unrelated events - these are truly the most filthy song-lyrics I have ever read - we gave this man a knighthood damn it!
I don't mind if you want to take my post down if I have been too crude in this post. I'll understand.
It's a hot day. So i'm pasting in Althea and Donna here. They both look a bit like you. Geroove.
An open letter
Dear fellow lemmings,
Singapore rocks. I love this country. We have a funny government and the world thinks we cannot fall in love naturally. We can't chew gum but that is okay. There's yupi, gummy bears and m&ms to choose from. Singlish rocks because it baffles foreigners like no other. We snigger when people think we are an island full of HDB flats. We know all about Broken Social Scene, CSS, Belle and Sebastian, Jamie Lidell, Astral Projection, Lykke Li, etc, but the world knows nothing about Concave Scream or Humpback Oak. Everyone I know has been to Europe or Tokyo at least once, can talk about Bangkok like we live there, and yet more than half of the world still thinks Singapore is part of China. Before the flagship stores even got here, we already own at least one piece of clothing from h&m or uniqlo. When we travel, people look at us stupendously because we communicate with each other in English. They can't figure us out. Malay street kids wear skinny jeans now because we are 2 cycles ahead of Shoreditch - who knows? We are a new kind of awesomeness that the world knows nothing about. I am never leaving this country ever. There are just too many things going on here. Singapore doesn't suck at all, we just need to catch up with her.
Love,
Lemming R
Singapore rocks. I love this country. We have a funny government and the world thinks we cannot fall in love naturally. We can't chew gum but that is okay. There's yupi, gummy bears and m&ms to choose from. Singlish rocks because it baffles foreigners like no other. We snigger when people think we are an island full of HDB flats. We know all about Broken Social Scene, CSS, Belle and Sebastian, Jamie Lidell, Astral Projection, Lykke Li, etc, but the world knows nothing about Concave Scream or Humpback Oak. Everyone I know has been to Europe or Tokyo at least once, can talk about Bangkok like we live there, and yet more than half of the world still thinks Singapore is part of China. Before the flagship stores even got here, we already own at least one piece of clothing from h&m or uniqlo. When we travel, people look at us stupendously because we communicate with each other in English. They can't figure us out. Malay street kids wear skinny jeans now because we are 2 cycles ahead of Shoreditch - who knows? We are a new kind of awesomeness that the world knows nothing about. I am never leaving this country ever. There are just too many things going on here. Singapore doesn't suck at all, we just need to catch up with her.
Love,
Lemming R
Post gig special
The Rakes at Zouk: Photos by JessicatDarryl, these are posted largely for your benefit. As you can see, the rakes dude dances exactly like you. In a similar retarded manner. Apparently, he is also a fan of gingham shirts! You are not so special anymore. HA! hehehe.
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