Sunday, July 31, 2005
there is hope!
while searching fruitlessly for a b&b in central camb, i found a cool gallery! its called kettle's yard. i'm super super unlucky in that the exhibition which i really wanna see there, advant garde graphics: 1918-1934, is gonna end on, agonizingly, 25TH SEPTEMBER. so that means i'm missing it by ONE DAY. but somehow, my exasperation at that was a sort of happy, almost relieved exasperation, the kind you feel when at the conclusion of a heartwrenching movie, when all that's left is the subplot, the corny sidekicks of the main characters realize they're in love or something.i'm happy cos there's even a gallery to agonize about, and that they'll have jorge pardo's light in the next show, and i'll be there then! i first saw his lights in the tate in march, and i like them alot.
have a look
and this is the (furtively and hence badly shot ,i couldn't help it) pic i took in the tate
Posted by i confound myself at 3:48 pm
Saturday, July 30, 2005
another project to support!
Posted by i confound myself at 7:28 am
i've put my work in HYPE gallery . its this online gallery that's been in new york and paris, and this is the first time its been in asia. so of course egomaniac me just wants to see my chicken scratches on air. haha. and at the arts house. go seee it too!
some of the other works are really good, although you hafta sieve through alot of other chaff before you get to it.
but sieving through the trash isn't quite so painful either; the virtual gallery's done quite slick. more slick, i would say, than the physical one. i never liked the arts house anyway, it reeks of NE in every refurbished nook and restored cranny.
Posted by i confound myself at 6:41 am
Saturday, July 16, 2005
i want to go to school! someone invite me to crash theirs!!!!
Posted by i confound myself at 5:51 pm
Friday, July 15, 2005
defragmentation
cripes! there are so many things i haven't done yet. i just went on the cumsa website after ( finally) booking my tix, and found out that you have to do things like carry your x-ray plate in your handluggage, buy surge protectors and do lots of little things that you need to live. its surprising how many details there are that actually constitute your life. i mean you minus away the big glaring things like food and clothes and computer and books and money, and you find that the big rocks only fill up one tenth of the glass. or one tenth of the suitcase, in this...case.congrats evan! all the best milia and chelle. diving licences.. in the first few weeks and from my experience at least, are very empowering-- as a concept. its like nice to know that you can hit the roads without fear of being stopped and asked for your licence, but there really isn't alot else that changes. the qualified drivers give you hell as ever, and roads are a pain to drive in. so many cars.
idea fac is getting me on another gig. dunno whether i'll take it on. nowadays there are opp costs. not tangible financial ones, but opp costs in terms of time and company. its like trying to coallate all the relationships you have, big and small, individual and communal, into some semblance of order so that you can update all of them. its like doing defragmenting, to be so unromantic. i am convinced that it is a real gift to be able to do such things. some people, like stella, or uncle aaron, just have it. its like, effortless. for me, i have to invest in it. however it is almost always rewarding. people are generally rewarding.
but of course, there are always exceptions to this rule. and here is where blogging breaks down again, cos i have the sudden urge to spew a profanity followed by your name, but i don't want everyone to know how gross either of us are.
Posted by i confound myself at 4:57 pm
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
blind date
my thickskined-ness has once again paid off. today i managed to make a connection with a fellow canterbridgian-to-be. la mian at crystal jade. hazardous probation driving. left in the lurch by camb admissions (where are those guys?!) good stuff. and we were so (uncharacteristically, for me at least) productive as to schedule another meeting next wed. click, magic wand, grow similar. tolerance...default.days have been good. the last days. been meeting lots of friends esp those back for the hols. just went with em to watch a film yesterday. go watch some! the arts house screening room is really outdoing itself! esp if you have a dbs card:) we watched a korean film by kim ki- duk and it was beautifully and poetically rendered, i don't even want to do it the injustice of a bad plot summary. the scenery will.. make you want to meditate. which is alot. i never want to meditate. do you think everyone is born evil by nature? it is such a contradiction because nature is, by nature, so pristine and uncorrupted, and right splat in the middle of it, believing that the world revolves around him, is the squalid human spirit. tamed only by "carrying a stone in your heart". which means that only old people, or people who've seen alot, can be truly at peace and one with nature. i am definitely not peaceful or onw with nature. be it mine or anyone else's. i have a thrasing-about spirit that is always on the verge of doing or saying something uncalled-for. that is my own fault. i carry too few stones, if any at all, in my brief and blessed life.
oh, my sweet brother and his saccharine voice have just, as i type, stepped into my room on return from johannes brahms choir competition in wernigerode. they ( all the sweet ri choirboys and their collectively saccharine voices), have won everything they could possibly win, and are going to be decorated in school. it is, i admit, a welcome relief from a week of sane silence in out house. welcome home josh! and btw, get outta my room! :)
Posted by i confound myself at 8:38 am
Monday, July 11, 2005
getting to know me
i just returned from a little midnight forray to mustafa center, in search of a travel printer. or a small one, at least. which i can bring over without having to sacrifice like one year's worth of clothing. haha. i think i'm going to get the canon ip1000, its cheap and basic and pretty good, so that's good enough for me. i also got myself a much-needed mouse. unfortunately, its was not until 2 seconds ago that i plugged it in, and realized that when switched on, it glows very offensive rainbow colors. its very distracting. but well, its unique. isn't it incredible that i don't remember ever going to mustafa before? the most famous shopping complex in little india? the tourist trap that's pretty much worth getting trapped in? and i call myself a singaporean!but anyway, i happen to think that i'm a better and more patriotic and more interested singaporean than most. feel free to send me hate mail if you disagree with me. i would be sincerely moved to recieve hate mail on the account of national pride.
speaking of which, i just had a little education today. national education. even though it was the clients who were supposed to be educated. educated by me, about me. what fun. anyway, i think today's group was the best ever. they actually had a conversation, a real one which i didn't even have to fascilitate or go through painful interrogations. i reckon by the time we hit 430, i could have just walked off and they would just sit there and continue the conversation without me. so if you're reading this you guys, yup i think you rock. enjoy the rest of the 3 days. enjoy putting up a skit about me. make sure you say terrible things about me so that idea factory gets me back for more.
