<contenttype="html"><p>From what I remember, a can of beer, bought from a convenience store, costs
more in Singapore than in Taipei, the capital-city of Taiwan, so maybe
the price of a glass of wine is more expensive in Singapore than in Taipei, too,
if not elsewhere.</p>
<p>Having said that, I have somewhat frequented the following establishments,
during so-called ‘happy hours’; the price comes up to SGD$10 to SGD$11 for a
glass, at the most. I list the price of a glass of wine, whether it be red or white:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/bruno-s-pizzeria-grill/">Bruno’s Bistrot/Pizzaria &amp; Grill</a>. $7.50, exclusive of a ‘service charge’ of 10%. All operation-hours are ‘happy hour’, I’ve heard. A plus maybe: bottles of wine are stored openly (that is, visibly) in a chiller for that purpose. <em>544 Serangoon Road, Singapore 218166</em></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hejthere.com">Hej Kitchen &amp; Bar</a>. ‘Happy hours’: 12 PM to 7 PM - it’s not clear to me whether these are for weekdays, weekends, or both. $8, exclusive of service charge (10%) and GST (7%). <em>180 Orchard Road, Singapore 238846</em>. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/OAGjcoN.jpg" alt="Signboard that displays the prices of alcoholic beverages during 'happy hours' at the bar Hej" title="Happy hours at the bar Hej" /></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theboiler.com.sg/contact-us">The Boiler (at the structure Esplanade)</a>. ‘Happy hours’: 5.30 PM to 8.30 PM, daily maybe. $8.50, exclusive of Service Charge and GST. <em>8 Raffles Ave, #01-13A, Esplanade Mall, Singapore 039802.</em><img src="https://i.imgur.com/m9a3hYn.jpg" alt="Information on so-called 'Happy Hour' at a restaurant called The Boiler" title="Information on Happy Hours at the restaurant The Boiler" /></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Restaurant_Review-g294265-d2538704-Reviews-Steakout-Singapore.html">Steakout</a>. ‘Happy hours’: Sunday to Thursday, excluding public holidays and their eves. $2 off the regular price of wine - this works out to be approximately $10. <em>89 Victoria Street, #01-01, Victoria Hotel, Singapore 188017</em>. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/27VXANQ.jpg" alt="A sign-board upon which the prices of various alcoholic beverages are written, pertaining to so-called 'Happy Hours' at the restaurant Steakout" title="Information on 'Happy Hours' at the restaurant Steakout" /></li>
<contenttype="html"><p>I reproduce a few quotes that I found on the web-site ‘Slow Muse:
By Deborah Barlow’ (<a href="http://www.slowmuse.com/">http://www.slowmuse.com/</a>).</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds
water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose
skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely
sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that
isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our
natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>–- Robert Hughes</p>
<blockquote>
<p>How to live? A life in the world or a world in the head? To be seen
and recognized outside, or to hide and think inside? Actor or hermit?
Which is it? She wanted both—to be inside and outside, to ponder and
to leap.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>– Siri Hustvedt, in the book ‘The Blazing World’</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In order to sell art, you had to “create desire,” and “desire,” he said,
“cannot be satisfied because then it’s no longer desire.” The thing
that is truly wanted must always be missing. “Art dealers have
to be magicians of hunger.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>– Siri Hustvedt, in the book ‘The Blazing World’</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate
and the desire to hide.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>– the writer and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott</p>
<blockquote>
<p>For most of life on the planet, being hidden is the default condition…
visibility is a luxury. Rarely are earth-colored tones the symbols of
opulence and royal blood. We are most comfortable being hidden
but we yearn to be seen.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>– Jane Hirschfield, in the book ‘Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry’</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Many friends have asked me when I will start writing on Slow Muse again. I am not sure how to answer that question. Between intention and action there is an indeterminate gap. Whatever it was that inspired my writing here for 12 years is now going through a transmutation of its own. I have had to be in surrender and to patiently wait for the what and the when to manifest.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>– Deborah Barlow, in <a href="http://www.slowmuse.com/2018/10/11/yet-to-come/">the blog-post ‘Yet to come’</a></p>
<p>I was a little reluctant to share the locations of these places - since
I have begun to regard them as little treasures for me to view quietly -
but I am instructed by the teacher Christ Jesus to not stock up on treasures
of this world.</p>
<p>In Matthew 6:19-20, he tells us:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do
not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there
your heart will be also.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And again, in Luke 12:32-34:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the
kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an
inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and
no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3 id="the-spaces-that-by-the-way-seem-a-little-less-touristy-to-me">The spaces (that, by the way, seem a little less touristy to me)</h3>
<p>So, in the hopes that my god is pleased, I list a number of art-galleries below:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cape of Good Hope Art Gallery.
Address: 231 Bain Street, Bras Basah Complex, #03-17, Singapore 180231.</li>
<li>‘Enchanted’. Have charged my laptop at the power-sockets there. URL: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EnchantedCafeSg/">https://www.facebook.com/EnchantedCafeSg/</a></li>
<li>‘Old Hen’. Have charged my laptop there. URL: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oldhencoffee/">https://www.facebook.com/oldhencoffee/</a></li>
<li>‘Real Food’, in the shopping mall Orchard Central. <a href="https://www.realfoodgrocer.com/">https://www.realfoodgrocer.com/</a></li>
</ol>
<p>I had the inspiration to post about this after visiting <a href="https://www.taniarascia.com/">Tania Rascia</a>’s
record of cafes that she has visited: <a href="https://taniarascia.github.io/coffee/">https://taniarascia.github.io/coffee/</a></p>
<p>And of course I can only have such inspiration if <a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a>
<li>Lande, J. (2014). ‘How I Created a Beautiful and Minimal Blog Using Jekyll, Github Pages, and poole’. URL: <a href="http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole">http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole</a>. Accessed URL on 4th Oct 2018.</li>
<li><a href="http://tilde.town/~resir014">Resi</a>. (2016). ‘Jekyll and tilde.town’. In <em>tilde.town</em> (Issue 2), pp. 5 to 9. URL: <a href="https://github.com/tildetown/zine/blob/master/issue_2/zine.pdf">https://github.com/tildetown/zine/blob/master/issue_2/zine.pdf</a>. Accessed URL on 4th OCt 2018.</li>
<li>Moore, P. (2014). ‘Clearing Up Confusion Around baseurl – Again’. URL: <a href="https://byparker.com/blog/2014/clearing-up-confusion-around-baseurl/">https://byparker.com/blog/2014/clearing-up-confusion-around-baseurl/</a>. Accessed URL on 4th Oct 2018.</li>