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Places, in Singapore, where I have had wine for about SGD$10
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<small><time datetime="2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00">12 Nov 2018</time></small>
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A challenge I face in pursuing excellence
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<small><time datetime="2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00">12 Nov 2018</time></small>
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<small><time datetime="2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00">12 Nov 2018</time></small>
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<small><time datetime="2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00">12 Nov 2018</time></small>
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Artists whom I've met in person and, in my impression, aren't based in Singapore
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Singaporean artists I 'know'
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Expensive F&B in Singapore if you want
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<content type="html"><p>Not much time on my hands (to make this post).</p>
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<li>Started a journal that I’m publishing on Github, intentionally challenging
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my audience, if any, to be familiar with Git and Github-like websites.
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<a href="https://github.com/phtan/technologist-journal">https://github.com/phtan/technologist-journal</a></li>
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<li>Experienced, and still experiencing, challenges with connecting to tilde.town.
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Firewalls and what-not. VPN doesn’t seem to be an option (yet).</li>
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<title>Q&A for me</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/04/05/sunny-morning/"/>
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<updated>2020-04-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/04/05/sunny-morning</id>
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<content type="html"><p>I love reading interviews. Whether it is an interview of Kevin Ma, founder
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of the magazine known as Hypebeast, or <a href="https://sivers.org/2015-12-ferriss">an interview of Derek Sivers</a>, entrepreneur
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who reportedly said No to selling his business for millions of dollars,
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I get to find out a bit more about these people.</p>
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<p>So, one day, I thought, how about I interview myself? Then others can find
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<p>But… what would I ever ask myself?</p>
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<p>Thankfully, I found some questions that were addressed to the public, on
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the social-network web-site known as LinkedIn, and guess what, I answered them!</p>
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<p>And now, I collect my answers to those questions, in this blog-post! Ta-dah!
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I have an interview… of myself! (Although others asked those questions).</p>
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<p>[clears throat]. Let’s start the interview!</p>
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<p><strong>How are you challenging yourself in 2020? - Elisha</strong></p>
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<p>My challenge for myself so far, in 2020, is to balance my time on social media - or, more broadly speaking, my time on an electronic computing device - with my time off the Internet. It would be interesting to see how I can do this in the light of a trend towards webinar(s) and work-from-home, set against a background of virus-news, virus-concerns, virus-fretting, virus-worrying and virus-scares.</p>
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<p><strong>What has been one project or assignment in which you broke the rules and had fun in the creative process? - Joseph</strong></p>
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<p>I once took an undergraduate-course on Composing Music in the Classical Style (for example, in the style of Mozart). For an assignment in that course, I wrote a musical work that appears to be thoroughly twentieth-century, instead of looking eighteenth-century. My course-instructor did not accept my work, but I still had fun. (I’ve realised the importance of surrounding myself with people who value creativity and innovation - which is not everyone, and I certainly don’t really appreciate flattery and/or smooth talk, either).</p>
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<p><strong>Tell me what is your oops-boo-hoo moment this week, and what you learnt from it. - Phing</strong></p>
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<p>An “oops-boo-hoo” of mine, as you call it? I run a blog where I post photos from my trips to art-galleries in Sg. Art-hunting, if you will. But I got a
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little lost; something didn’t feel right (about such blogging) anymore. I
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asked the person known, on LinkedIn.com , as Alin Sneha Abraham, for her perspective on the matter; I said I wasn’t sure if my blogging was adding value to the world. Alin said something to the effect that it is more important that I enjoy myself; that way, at least one person benefits. So my oops-boo-hoo was to overlook my own enjoyment of the activity in question. I concluded that I liked visiting galleries, but posting photos on social media? Not so much.</p>
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<title>A challenge I face in pursuing excellence</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/03/24/very-late-afternoon/"/>
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<updated>2020-03-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/03/24/very-late-afternoon</id>
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<content type="html"><p>A challenge I face in pursuing excellence is… <em>[drum roll]</em>… finding others who pursue excellence.</p>
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<p>Okay, maybe that wasn’t such a surprising revelation. As the saying goes, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man another”.</p>
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<p>For me, it is not satisfactory enough to look to my contemporaries - I have looked centuries back, hoping to appreciate greatness.</p>
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<p>Without further ado, I share a list - off the top of my head - of works I look up to:</p>
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<p>In Classical Music,</p>
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<li>Beethoven’s Cello Sonata, Op. 102</li>
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<li>Schubert’s Winterreise</li>
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<p>In opera,</p>
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<li>Bartók’s “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”</li>
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<p>In Russian literature,</p>
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<li>Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, “Eugene Onegin”</li>
|
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<p>In children’s literature,</p>
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<li>Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”</li>
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<p>Others:</p>
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<li>a fairly modern film, Wong Kar-Wai’s “In the mood for love”</li>
|
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<li>A song by The Beatles, “Come together”</li>
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|
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<p>In concluding, I note that if I have a small, puny mind, the world I see is a small, puny world. I wish for a mind that can see greatness in even the smallest thing - eyes that can see beauty and wonder.</p>
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|
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<p>For example, can I learn, from a dog, how to be happy, while being held on a leash? Or, from a cat, how to meditate?</p>
|
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<p>I close with a quote from the classic tale, “The little prince”:</p>
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<blockquote>
|
||||||
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<p>“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”</p>
|
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|
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<p><em>This post first appeared <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6648108747728216064/">on LinkedIn</a>.</em></p>
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<title>A brief analysis of the artistic merit of videos made by Peeping Toms/voyeurs</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/03/12/sunny-morning/"/>
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<updated>2020-03-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/03/12/sunny-morning</id>
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<content type="html"><p>Maybe in the past it was more artistic (and consensual between
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photographer/cameraman and subject)</p>
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<p>I refer to Brassaï ‘s 1931 photo, “A suit for two in the magic city”, which
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features some extent of (the suggestion of) male nudity.
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in it,
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clearly there are homosexual themes
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and there is some expression of
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intimacy as well</p>
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<p>Nowadays, if I were to
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use a popular expression, people are “going from bad to worse”</p>
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<p>And Peeping Toms/voyeurs who arrive later in history, in their “artistic work” - if it could be so termed - seem to demonstrate a clear lack of what the writer Edgar Allan Poe calls the Poetic Principle: their works do not “elevate the soul”, as a poetic work should</p>
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<title>An opera; International Women's Day</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/03/09/evening/"/>
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<updated>2020-03-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/03/09/evening</id>
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<content type="html"><p>Somewhat belatedly, on the occasion of Women’s Day - it is refreshing for me to encounter, in literature, a wife saving her husband in distress (instead of the other way round).</p>
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<p>I’m referring to Beethoven’s only completed opera, “Fidelio”.</p>
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<p>Fidelio is the alias of a character named Leonore, who gets employed by the jailer, Rocco - and even cross-dresses as a man - so that she can gain access to the inner-most section of the jail; she wants to see if her husband, Florestan, is indeed imprisoned there.</p>
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<p>I think I’ve revealed enough about the plot, so I’ll stop relating the details here.</p>
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<p>Let me end with the (German) words from the finale of the opera:</p>
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<p>“Nie wird es zu hoch besungen, Retterin des Gatten sein.” (Never can we over-praise a wife who saves her husband.) Translator: Lionel Salter.</p>
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<p>Details for lovers of classical music: I listened to a 1995 recording, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt as conductor, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.</p>
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<p>I believe well-deserved honour goes to National Library Board (of Singapore)
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for stocking both CD and CD-player at the public library known as
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Library@Esplanade .</p>
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<p><em>this post first appeared in its original form,
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phengheong_iwd-activity-6642767605172133888-1vS8">on LinkedIn</a></em></p>
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<title>A selection of five photos I've taken, in the past two years</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/03/06/retro-post/"/>
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<updated>2020-03-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/03/06/retro-post</id>
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<content type="html"><p>It didn’t seem fun to have to meet the requirements
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(of
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<a href="http://sipf.sg/">Singapore International Photography Festival</a>
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2020) to have
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seven photos in my submission. So,
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<a href="https://alls-futility.tumblr.com/post/611746367108448256/creative-commons-attribution-40-international">on Tumblr</a>,
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I present five photos that I do have, instead; they were taken in the past two years (all on the island of Singapore ); I hope you enjoy them.</p>
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<title>reading a book on photography</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/03/05/retro-post/"/>
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<updated>2020-03-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/03/05/retro-post</id>
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<content type="html"><p>Reading a book by David Ulrich, “Zen camera: creative awakening with a daily practice in photography”.</p>
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<p>Found words (or the vocabulary) to describe what I spend a significant amount of energy on nowadays: creating the necessary conditions for “the arrival of the muse… - what artists call inspiration and many call the ‘aha’ moment […] the creative intelligence occurring when the artist or seeker is open, taking place through the cracks of the ordinary, rational brain”. (Page 94).</p>
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<p>Here I share a photo (I have) taken on 26th December, around the time of a supposed eclipse. It draws me somehow… I stay open to where it calls me.</p>
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<p>As Ulrich says (on Page 88), the famous figure in spirituality, Rumi, has a quote/poem:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray “</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49276833901_9abbf0a9a7_o.jpg" alt="a photo of shadows, of trees, on a the ground. Human feet is visible on the left-most one-third of the photo." /></p>
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<entry>
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<title>recent Art News: artists selling art without dealers</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/03/02/sunny-morning/"/>
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<updated>2020-03-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/03/02/sunny-morning</id>
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<content type="html"><p>Just to share, I’ve recently heard of at least two artists who make their works accessible to the public without involving a gallery or a dealer.</p>
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<p>William Powhida invites the public to be his Friend; the perks of being such a Friend include free (as in gratis) ownership of his artwork, if you have taken care of it (at your place) for five years.
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Source: Taylor Dafoe ‘s article on the web-site Artnet, published on 28th Feb 2020:
|
||||||
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“Artist William Powhida Doesn’t Have Room to Store All His Work—So He Wants You to Borrow It, For Free”. URL:
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||||||
|
https://lnkd.in/fcyYJRe</p>
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<p>Tsuyumi Miwa is having an exhibition at Maduro Jazz Club, Singapore ( http://www.maduro.sg/ ) . Tsuyumi says her paintings will be on sale, at a lower price than usual, because there is no “gallery commission fee”.</p>
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<li>Time: 6.30 PM onwards , on 24th April</li>
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<li>Price of a ticket: SGD$25</li>
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<li>Tsuyumi is contactable at her web-site,
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( http://www.heymiwa.com/ )</li>
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<p>What’s in the price of a ticket? Her friend, the composer-singer-actor James Flynn ( http://www.flynnjazz.com/ ) has composed songs that interpret Tsuyumi’s paintings , which he is scheduled to perform, with his trio, on the evening of Tsuyumi’s exhibition.
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Source: my recent chat(s) with Tsuyumi</p>
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<title>Pay-off(s) of my little investment of sorts: attending a talk</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/02/28/sunny-enough/"/>
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<updated>2020-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/02/28/sunny-enough</id>
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<content type="html"><p>I feel rewarded for getting up earlier than usual today -
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<a href="https://www.hnworth.com/article/truths/life/why-i-started-stage-6-a-conscious-co-living-space/">Helena Wasserman Eriksson</a>
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‘s talk was scheduled for 8.30 AM.</p>
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<p><a href="https://creativemornings.com/talks/helena-wasserman-eriksson-on-invest">Her talk</a>,
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on the topic “Invest”, began with questions for the audience. Then: “I want you to think how you have invested in yourself, and the great feeling you had when you did that. Then take 5 minutes to share it with your neighbour.”</p>
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<p>If I think about it now, attending her talk was an investment in myself, too. And I think this investment has paid off already - at the talk’s venue, I met people, who not only seemed to share similar interests with me, but also seem to be better than myself at it. For example,</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeneseancheng/">Eugene Cheng</a> has done photography at weddings, something I haven’t done (yet), but it’s something which Eugene asserts will provide lots of opportunities to develop photographic skills</li>
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<li>Tsuyumi Miwa ‘s name-cards feature her paintings on the reverse side - an idea I can consider if I do start making name-cards for my artistic practice. (Tsuyumi-san’s website: http://heymiwa.com/ )</li>
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<li>I met someone who talked about one’s posture, in relation to pain in one’s knees, while running. Now I am thinking about whether my posture, while I use my laptop, is the best for my body.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Lots of food for thought, to say the least!</p>
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<p><em>This post has appeared in a slightly altered form,
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6639002362029666304/">on LinkedIn</a></em></p>
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</content>
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</entry>
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<entry>
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<title>Just watched a recording of Tim Brown 's TED talk, "Tales of creativity and play"</title>
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<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/02/28/nearly-sunset/"/>
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<updated>2020-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2020/02/28/nearly-sunset</id>
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<content type="html"><p>I was at a screening that is open to the public, at the co-working space The Hive (Facebook: https://facebook.com/thehivecarpenter/ )</p>
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<p>In his talk, Mr. Brown highlighted a number of exercises/techniques, that designers use, and which are modelled on, or inspired by, how little children play:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>The technique called “thinking with your hands”. Its analogue among children is so-called “construction play”, such as building towers from little blocks, knocking the towers down, and building them again, over and over. An example of this technique, among designers, is building prototypes of an idea quickly, even if the prototype looks like a crude hotch-potch of everyday objects: plasticine, small bottles of deodorant, and so on.</li>
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<li>Role play. How children role-play need not be elaborated, I believe: playing House, playing Tea-time, and so on. From what Mr. Brown says, designers can use role play to switch perspective(s) from the designer (of a service) to the user (of that service).</li>
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</ol>
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<p>It seems worth mentioning that Mr. Brown said that play is not anarchy. Play has rules. For example, if little children play Cops &amp; Robbers, they are acting out a socially agreed script.</p>
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<p>Definitely interesting to think about - for me, at least. I hope it’s interesting for you, too.</p>
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<p>I link to the TED talk:
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<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_tales_of_creativity_and_play?language=en">https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_tales_of_creativity_and_play?language=en</a></p>
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</content>
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</entry>
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<entry>
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|
<title>A story I wanted to share on the web-site LinkedIn</title>
|
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|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/02/26/bright-morning/"/>
|
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|
<updated>2020-02-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
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|
<id>http://tilde.town/2020/02/26/bright-morning</id>
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<content type="html"><p>Years ago, I read a book by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-d-souza-5351712/">Steven D’Souza</a>
|
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|
and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-renner-24895232/">Diana Renner</a>, titled
|
||||||
|
“Not knowing: The art of turning uncertainty into opportunity”.</p>
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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<p>If you want to know more about that book, you can check out its page on
|
||||||
|
Goodreads.com (because the rest of this post is not going to talk much about that book) :</p>
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210266-not-knowing">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210266-not-knowing</a></p>
|
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|
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<p>After reading the book, I was inspired to write a blog-post, which, generally speaking,
|
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was about the impact that the book had on me.</p>
|
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|
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<p>So, fast-forward three years: Steven, who, as you recall, is co-author of the above-mentioned book,
|
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|
leaves a comment on my blog:</p>
|
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<blockquote>
|
||||||
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<p>Thank you for sharing the impact of our book on you Pheng Heong.
|
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|
Your writing is honest and eloquent. Steven</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
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|
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|
<p>And I probably have a fan-boy moment: who is Steven in the world, and I - who am I kidding - who am I
|
||||||
|
in the world? <em>that</em> Steven is talking to <em>this</em> me?</p>
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
<p>But if I view Steven and I as fellow travellers into the unknown, maybe he and I are
|
||||||
|
not that different from each other. Steven (and Diana, his co-author) may have more experience
|
||||||
|
in life than me, but they highlight, in their book, that they do not want to be seen
|
||||||
|
as experts about the unknown - if anything, they encourage one to explore the unknown for oneself.
|
||||||
|
My role, then, is clear: if Steven and Diana are offering wisdom about such an adventure,
|
||||||
|
so to speak, then I can be, and I am, happy to receive that wisdom. (despite the discomfort,
|
||||||
|
and even dread, that encountering the unknown often engenders in me).</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>It may be that I have my individual, unique, experience of the unknown to undergo,
|
||||||
|
but I am happy to have the wisdom that Steven and Diana have distilled, via their book,
|
||||||
|
to bear in mind, all the while.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>You can view my above-mentioned blog-post here:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><a href="http://phtan.github.io/blog/post/2016-05-06-not-knowing/">http://phtan.github.io/blog/post/2016-05-06-not-knowing/</a></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><em>This post was originally intended for publication on the social-media web-site LinkedIn,
|
||||||
|
but what I’ve prepared for that web-site was somehow lost. Now I type a new draft,
|
||||||
|
and post it first on this current Internet-address, with plans to subsequently post, or syndicate,
|
||||||
|
it (back) to LinkedIn.</em></p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
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|
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|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>how to say 'good'</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/02/13/sunny/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2020-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2020/02/13/sunny</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>A certain Homeless Kodo has said, “we only say something is good when
|
||||||
|
it goes our way”, or something to that effect. I quote,</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>Sooner or later everyone starts thinking of nothing besides themselves. You say, “That was good!” But what was good? It was only good for you personally, that’s all.</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Source: <a href="https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-to-you/">https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-to-you/</a></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Be that as it may, I take pleasure and interest in the different ways I can say
|
||||||
|
something is good, whether it is good for me, or for someone else, or whatever.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>So, I make the following list, based on words currently in my vocabulary:</p>
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
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<li>excellent</li>
|
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|
<li>nice</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>super</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>amazing</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>awesome</li>
|
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|
<li>great</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>perfect</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>棒(a Chinese word)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li><em>baik</em> (a word in Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu, pronouced like baa-eggk)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li><em>pona</em> (a word in the constructed language Toki Pona, which has no native speakers)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>pleasant</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>赞(a word that seemed to have been used in Taiwan in the modern past
|
||||||
|
(about 1.5 decades ago?); maybe it isn’t used
|
||||||
|
so much nowadays anymore?)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>miraculous</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>fabulous</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>nice - oops, I mentioned “nice” already.</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>fun - I seldom use this word, but I’ve heard others use them within my ear-shot</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>majestic - usually I use this word to describe God and God’s works</li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>That’s it. I’ve heard a Spanish version of “miraculous” and “fabulous” before, but
|
||||||
|
because I seldom use those Spanish words, I omit it from my above list.</p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>A chat about ethics and technology, with Mr. Sebastian Müeller</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2020/01/06/sunny/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2020-01-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2020/01/06/sunny</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>On 12 December 2019, during the afternoon, Sebastian and I met at the
|
||||||
|
Singapore office of Minglabs, an organisation in which Sebastian is
|
||||||
|
Co-founder and COO. Let me briefly recall the approximately
|
||||||
|
one-hour-long chat, using a format of
|
||||||
|
Question-and-Answer (Q&amp;A) below - I asked most of the questions, as I recall.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><em>Q: “Why are you interested in ethics?”</em></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>A: “I do not have [an academic] background in ethics or philosophy. I studied Computer Science in Germany. My thinking changed after I had a son - he is three years old now - and I have done much more reading since.”</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><em>Q: “I don’t mean to offend you personally, but if we talk about ethics, there is the danger of being a hypocrite, that is, saying one thing and doing another. How do you ensure you are not a hypocrite?”</em></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>A: “Humans are fallible. If someone says something, and does what he says - if he walks the talk - he is an angel. [Having said that,] I try to be better today than I was yesterday.”</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><em>Q: “About Andrew Yang… [in the U.S., who proposed a Department of the Attention Economy]”</em></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>A: “Algorithm Oversight. Right now, there is a gap: the regulation-authorities have to figure out what is happening in these algorithms. It takes time to come up with regulations, and meanwhile, technology keeps moving on and on and on. They have to be paid well, because they are the best of the best of the best [that is, those who are, or might be, recruited, into The Government, to regulate algorithms that are used in software]. This is one area that I think Singapore does well in: the ministers are well-paid. In the U.S. or in Europe, working in The Government means taking a pay-cut.”</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><em>Q: “You mentioned reading. What are some of those books?”</em></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>A: “I’ll email you after our chat.” [Later, Sebastian emails hyperlinks:]</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
|
<li>Cathy O’Neil. (2016). “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data increases inequality and threatens democracy”.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Brad Smith. (2019). “Tools and weapons: The promise and the peril of the Digital Age”.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44334073-tools-and-weapons">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44334073-tools-and-weapons</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Yancey Strickler. (2019). “This could be our future: A manifesto for a more generous world”.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44525559-this-could-be-our-future">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44525559-this-could-be-our-future</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Tim O’Reilly. (2017). “WTF?: What’s The Future and why it’s up to us” .
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34017076-wtf">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34017076-wtf</a></li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>The Q&amp;A above represents only a portion of the entirety of my chat with Sebastian, which concluded with agreeing that (the application of) ethics in technology meant co-operation/collaboration of (highly skilled) people across various fields of expertise, or disciplines. As Sebastian puts it, “I observe; I act within my sphere of influence… [but] I cannot solve the problem on my own.”</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>However, Sebastian seems optimistic, if not hopeful: “[if I] keep repeating a message [about ethics, to the audience of my various talks], maybe the message will get in.”</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>Recipe for a (Milo-based) cocktail</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/12/17/overcast/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-12-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/12/17/overcast</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>I got this recipe from a bartender at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/barstories.sg/">Bar Stories</a>
|
||||||
|
, located on the island of
|
||||||
|
Singapore.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>It is based on Milo, a non-alcoholic beverage which is kinda based on malt.
|
||||||
|
(I am aware, from anecdotal evidence, that Milo is popular, if not well-known,
|
||||||
|
in at least the South-east Asian countries of Malaysia and Singapore).</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>I didn’t manage to get the name for this cocktail. Nonetheless, the ingredients:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
|
<li>Egg white x 1</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Milo, as in the drink, not the powder x 2 oz</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Butter-scotch, the liqueur x 0.25 oz</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Dark-chocolate liqueur x 0.5 oz</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Dark-chocolate bitters x 3 dashes</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Black Cow vodka (for a creamy taste) x 1.5 oz</li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>A few print-making techniques, and possibly goodbye</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/09/12/sunny/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-09-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/09/12/sunny</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>Recently, at an Open House at <a href="https://www.stpi.com.sg/">STPI</a>, I learnt -
|
||||||
|
or rather, watched, if not tried my hand at it myself, in some stage of the
|
||||||
|
respective process - the print-making techniques/processes of Intaglio, Linocut and
|
||||||
|
Relief-printing.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>By the way, owing to various circumstances, this may or may not be my final
|
||||||
|
post on this blog.</p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>want to feel (even more) cramped (in a cheek-to-jowl way) on the island of Singapore? A few places to check out </title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/04/17/sunny/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-04-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/04/17/sunny</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>The title of this post is self-explanatory, I believe. If you’re so inclined,
|
||||||
|
check out:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
|
<li>In the day-time, for instance, around noon on a Sunday: <strong>“Mother Dough”</strong>, in the area of Sultan Mosque.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.motherdough.com.sg/">https://www.motherdough.com.sg/</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>In clubbing (as in night-life) hours, say, at 1 AM on a Sunday: <strong>“Headquarters”</strong>, in the area of Boat Quay.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/headquarters.sg/">https://www.facebook.com/headquarters.sg/</a></li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>My Lineage of Inspiration</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/03/29/sunset/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-03-29T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/03/29/sunset</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>I’m working on a career-development course right now, titled ‘Work That
|
||||||
|
Matters’. It’s by Maia Duerr, and in this blog post, I am going to
|
||||||
|
make what Maia calls a Lineage of Inspiration.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Maia herself elaborates on her Lineage of Inspiration at the Internet-address
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://maiaduerr.com/lineage-and-liberation-2/">http://maiaduerr.com/lineage-and-liberation-2/</a>.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>She writes:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>So as way of creating my own personal lineage chart, I want to name some of those people who made a huge impact on me and to whom I feel enormous gratitude. I’m sharing this list as a way for you to get to know me better and it’s also an invitation for you to do the same. It’s a huge gift to realize that our lineage is linked to our liberation. We don’t have to do it alone. There is no way we possibly could do it on our own.</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>The following is the prompt I am working with, which I reproduce from the afore-mentioned
|
||||||
|
Internet address. ‘Who’s in your personal lineage? Who are the people who have guided you to more freedom in your life, and what gifts have you received from them?’</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
|
<li><strong>Masafumi Itokazu (“Matchi”)</strong>.
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|
Matchi has <a href="https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/masafumi-matchi-itokazu?action=show&amp;controller=user_profiles">a profile on Couchsurfing.com</a>.
|
||||||
|
He was my room-mate in the autumn of the year 2013 A.D.,
|
||||||
|
at a dormitory on the campus of National Taiwan University, until he left
|
||||||
|
our shared room -
|
||||||
|
rather abruptly, I thought - some-time during the wet winter of the same year.
|
||||||
|
He was a sharp dresser, I think. I’ve received the gift of encouragement,
|
||||||
|
unspoken or otherwise, to dress myself as boldly as I would like. A gift
|
||||||
|
of confidence, in other words - perhaps. Now I dress as I dare
|
||||||
|
(or so I would like to think).</li>
|
||||||
|
<li><strong>Chris Jensen</strong>.
|
||||||
|
Chris has <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherjamesjensen/">a profile on LinkedIn</a>.
|
||||||
|
Chris was my supervisor during my internship at his (now-defunct, I guess)
|
||||||
|
start-up Good For Us. At the point in time that I met him,
|
||||||
|
I was somewhat in the earlier part of what could be
|
||||||
|
conventionally called
|
||||||
|
College Education. I had little to no awareness of inner life or spiritual life,
|
||||||
|
I think, at that time. Chris did not seem afraid to mandate a practice
|
||||||
|
of recalling A Few Things That You’re Grateful For, during lunches together.
|
||||||
|
Chris also extended an invitation for me to visit him during
|
||||||
|
his work at the non-profit organisation <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groundupinitiative/">Ground-up Initative (G.U.I.)</a>.
|
||||||
|
Exposure to Nature that seemed a little less domesticated (at G.U.I.),
|
||||||
|
and the beginnings
|
||||||
|
of a practice of gratitude - I’ve received these gifts.</li>
|
||||||
|
<li><strong>Emily Dickinson</strong>.
|
||||||
|
I read that she withdrew from society, famously becoming recluse-like,
|
||||||
|
and developed a kind of language of her own, which can, maybe, be seen in
|
||||||
|
her now-renown poems. I’ve received encouragement to pursue a path into poetry,
|
||||||
|
regardless of how unconventional a life I may seem to lead.</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>A manager at my kitchen-workplace, by the name of <strong>Lily</strong> (transliterated name).
|
||||||
|
I met her while I was a part-time cook at a budget restaurant of sorts. (I still am, for now.)
|
||||||
|
She seemed sensitive enough to refill any sauces (or ingredients) that I’ve
|
||||||
|
run out of, at a time when I was too busy or pre-occupied to refill those myself.
|
||||||
|
I’ve received the gift of an example of service towards my co-workers, or perhaps
|
||||||
|
even humankind. I can strive to emulate her sensitivity to others, I think,
|
||||||
|
if nothing else.</li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>Eateries in Singapore that are not "chains", as far as I am aware</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/03/14/sunny/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-03-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/03/14/sunny</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>The title of this post seems self-explanatory to me. The list below
|
||||||
|
includes eateries that have branches overseas but not in Singapore.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>This post was inspired by a question that a member of the Meetup-group
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/returnedsingaporeans/">
|
||||||
|
‘Returned Overseas Singaporeans in Singapore (R.O.S.S.)’
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
has asked. That member said that she found herself eating at the same places,
|
||||||
|
implying that she wanted a change of eateries, hence her question, which
|
||||||
|
was somewhat similar to the title of this post.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>I list:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<ol>
|
||||||
|
<li>Morton’s Steakhouse</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Slow Bakes (which is supposedly under the same umbrella-organisation
|
||||||
|
as the chain of meat-free restaurants, ‘Real Food’)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>La Ristrettos</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Brunches Cafe</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Tong Fong Fatt Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Mahota Commune</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Il Den</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Kemono Healthy Japanese Roast Chicken (it seems delivery-only)</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Tolido’s Espresso Nook</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>MTR Restaurant</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Podi &amp; Poriyal</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Hj Maimunah</li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>This post was updated on 14th March 2019.</p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>Purchases, approximately at the time of Chinese New Year</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/02/06/sunny/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-02-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/02/06/sunny</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>By no design of my own, both last year (2018 A.D.) and this (2019 A.D.)
|
||||||
|
, I’ve made purchases
|
||||||
|
that are somewhat associated with Indonesia - and specifically, batik -
|
||||||
|
approximately
|
||||||
|
at the time of the respective year’s Chinese New Year.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Last year, it was a button-down shirt from Kiah’s Gallery
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Kiahb4tik/">
|
||||||
|
(https://www.facebook.com/Kiahb4tik/)
|
||||||
|
</a> - where the seller told me, “Batik is a dying art.” (she also effectively
|
||||||
|
said, if I’m not mistaken, something like, “The batik-shirt
|
||||||
|
chooses its owner.”) -
|
||||||
|
and this year, a coin-pouch, from The Green Collective SG
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegreencollectivesg">
|
||||||
|
(https://www.facebook.com/thegreencollectivesg)
|
||||||
|
</a> - maybe the designer, or maker, of the coin-pouch is from Indonesia.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Now, what do I say about Indonesia? Or about batik?</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>I just thank my god that I have the luxury of the experience of buying batik,
|
||||||
|
while on the island of Singapore.</p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>'They have certificates, but no flower!'</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/02/05/bright-but-near-twilight/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-02-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/02/05/bright-but-near-twilight</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>The exclamation in the title of this post came from a street-busker I have met,
|
||||||
|
a number of years ago. He was commenting on the quality of music-playing
|
||||||
|
that came from young musicians nowadays.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>“What is ‘flower’?” I asked him.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>“Flower? Flower is this!” he replied, before launching into a song, on his
|
||||||
|
guitar, which I couldn’t help but dance to.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>So what is flower? I couldn’t help but to want to have a more theoretical,
|
||||||
|
or even academic, perspective on the terminology of this street-busker.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Finally, years later, with glory to my god - and thanks to Him, of course - I found a mention
|
||||||
|
in a book called “Nine gates: Entering the mind of poetry” by Jane Hirshfield.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Hirshfield mentioned the concept of <em>hana</em> in a form of
|
||||||
|
Japanese theatre called Nō. Supposedly, <em>hana</em> - which, interestingly enough,
|
||||||
|
means ‘flower’ in the Japanese language - is the quality by which an actor
|
||||||
|
can move the audience, despite being hidden behind a mask and standing motionless
|
||||||
|
on stage. Supposedly (according to the claims of Hirshfield, who in turn
|
||||||
|
was quoting a practitioner or observer of Nō), <em>hana</em> can be accessed
|
||||||
|
sometimes in youth, but in maturity, <em>hana</em>… - oh, I forget what Hirshfield
|
||||||
|
wrote.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Perhaps this might be interesting enough for me to investigate further.</p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>A DJ said he had a focus on songs from Southeast Asia and Japan</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/02/04/overcast-near-twilight/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/02/04/overcast-near-twilight</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>Yesterday, I caught a set by the DJ
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/itchirology/">
|
||||||
|
Itch
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
, at
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/kultkafe/">
|
||||||
|
Kult Kafé
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
, Singapore. I heard songs
|
||||||
|
with lyrics that sounded like they were in the language Mandarin Chinese,
|
||||||
|
those with Japanese-like lyrics, and (at least) one that Itch said was from Indonesia,
|
||||||
|
when I asked him where that song was from.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Maybe he - and the other DJs who spun - was playing vinyls yesterday.</p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>Artists whom I've met in person and, in my impression, aren't based in Singapore</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/01/28/indoors-and-cold/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-01-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/01/28/indoors-and-cold</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>The title of this post is self-explanatory.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<table>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<th>
|
||||||
|
Name
|
||||||
|
</th>
|
||||||
|
<th>
|
||||||
|
Web-site
|
||||||
|
</th>
|
||||||
|
<th>
|
||||||
|
Details of my meeting with that artist, if any
|
||||||
|
</th>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
Sophie Kao
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://www.sophie-kao.com">
|
||||||
|
http://www.sophie-kao.com
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
I met her at
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://www.instinc.com/global/index.php/exhibit/item/316-the-rhizome-city">
|
||||||
|
an exhibition of her works
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
at
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://www.instinc.com/global/index.php/about-instinc">
|
||||||
|
Instinc
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
, in the year 2019 A.D.
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
Levan Songulashvili
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://www.levan.gallery">
|
||||||
|
http://www.levan.gallery
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
At an exhibition of his, which was held at <a href="https://www.objectifs.com.sg/">
|
||||||
|
Objectifs: Centre for Photography and Film
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
Kuros Nekouian
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li>
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kuros_nekouian/">
|
||||||
|
https://www.instagram.com/kuros_nekouian/
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://www.kuros.de">
|
||||||
|
http://www.kuros.de
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
First met him on 15th Feb 2019 A.D., at Instinc. Later, saw him at
|
||||||
|
Levan's exhibition at Objectifs (see above, please).
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
</table>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><em>This page was updated 22nd Apr 2019.</em></p>
|
||||||
|
</content>
|
||||||
|
</entry>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<entry>
|
||||||
|
<title>Singaporean artists I 'know'</title>
|
||||||
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/01/25/indoors/"/>
|
||||||
|
<updated>2019-01-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
|
||||||
|
<id>http://tilde.town/2019/01/25/indoors</id>
|
||||||
|
<content type="html"><p>I’ve met a Teo Eng Seng (Mister) recently - yesterday afternoon - and when
|
||||||
|
he asked me, “how many Singaporean artists do you know”, with ‘Singaporean’
|
||||||
|
defined as ‘working in Singapore’, I realised I was stumped for an answer
|
||||||
|
beyond a handful of names (not much more than a couple of them); more names
|
||||||
|
came to me after the moment of interrogation had passed. Well, for the benefit
|
||||||
|
of whoever’s interested, I make a table below, in response to Mr. Teo Eng Seng’s
|
||||||
|
question.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<table>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<th>Artist
|
||||||
|
</th>
|
||||||
|
<th>Website
|
||||||
|
</th>
|
||||||
|
<th>Have I met that artist in person?
|
||||||
|
</th>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Cheong Soo Pieng
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>don't know
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>He was dead, reportedly, by the time I heard of him. So, no, I haven't.
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Ng Eng Teng
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>idk
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>No
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Amanda Heng
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>idk
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>A handful of years ago, at NUS Museum, where she was present
|
||||||
|
at the venue of her artwork, during which strangers had tea, <strike>dismembered</strike>
|
||||||
|
trimmed bean-sprouts and chatted.
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Max Kong
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>http://maxkong.com
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
In the year 2018, during
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/720402234973729/">
|
||||||
|
'ArtWalk@Wessex'
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Frances Alleblas
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>https://www.francesalleblas.com/
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>As with Mr. Max Kong
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>
|
||||||
|
Lin Hsin Hsin
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>http://lhham.com.sg/
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>Met at a
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/curator-dialog-with-digital-media-pioneer-speed-of-thought-tickets-31115269609#">
|
||||||
|
'curator dialog'
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
, which took
|
||||||
|
place in the year 2017 A.D., at a co-working
|
||||||
|
space in Singapore.
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Mira
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>http://mira-yoon.format.com
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>I have had the luxury of her services as an art-therapist.
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Of course, Teo Eng Seng
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>idk
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>Met him at his
|
||||||
|
<a href="http://www.dlrgallery.com/">
|
||||||
|
gallery
|
||||||
|
</a>
|
||||||
|
at 22 Marshall Road, Singapore
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
</tr>
|
||||||
|
<tr>
|
||||||
|
<td>Ng Joon Kiat
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>http://ngjoonkiat.com/
|
||||||
|
</td>
|
||||||
|
<td>I've met him at events associated with other artists. Most recently,
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I've met him at the opening reception of an exhibition at
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<a href="http://theprivatemuseum.org/">
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The Private Museum
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</a>
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<td>Yeo Siak Goon
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<td>idk
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<td>Met him at
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an exhibition of his works
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, in the year 2018 A.D., at
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/articulture.sg/">
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Articulture
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</a>
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<td>Ben Puah
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</td>
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<td>idk
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<td>First met him maybe in the year 2018 A.D., at 22 Marshall Road.
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By the time I arrived there, he was already with Mr. Teo Eng Seng.
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<entry>
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<title>Expensive F&B in Singapore if you want</title>
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|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2019/01/08/twilight/"/>
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<updated>2019-01-08T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://tilde.town/2019/01/08/twilight</id>
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<content type="html"><p>The following are eateries/shops where the offerings have been thought of as
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‘expensive’ by others or myself. I list them with an example of the prices (in
|
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SGD),
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which I myself have paid while I was there.</p>
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<li>A chicken thigh with rice cost $6.80, at Lam’s.
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<a href="https://www.lamskitchen.com/outlets">https://www.lamskitchen.com/outlets</a></li>
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|
<li>A cup of hot chocolate cost $10.67, at Laurent Bernard Chocolatier.
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Laurentbernardchocolatier/">https://www.facebook.com/Laurentbernardchocolatier/</a></li>
|
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|
<li>A serving (one glass, not a bottle) of whisky cost close to $30, at
|
||||||
|
Quaich. <a href="https://www.quaichbar.com.sg/contact-us">https://www.quaichbar.com.sg/contact-us</a></li>
|
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|
<li>A stick of baguette cost $4, at Slow Bakes.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.happycow.net/reviews/slow-bakes-central-singapore-118886">https://www.happycow.net/reviews/slow-bakes-central-singapore-118886</a></li>
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|
<li>A plate of sliced beef, done Korean-style, cost $10, at Kim Dae Mun.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/KimDaeMun/">https://www.facebook.com/KimDaeMun/</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>A burger cost approximately $40, after a discount, at Morton’s.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://www.mortons.com/singapore/">https://www.mortons.com/singapore/</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>A four-course meat-free meal cost between $20 to $30, if I am not mistaken,
|
||||||
|
at Sufood. <a href="https://sufood.com.sg/contact-us/">https://sufood.com.sg/contact-us/</a></li>
|
||||||
|
</ol>
|
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|
</content>
|
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|
</entry>
|
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|
|
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<entry>
|
<entry>
|
||||||
<title>description of a certain kind of coffee in Singapore</title>
|
<title>description of a certain kind of coffee in Singapore</title>
|
||||||
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2018/11/23/cloudy/"/>
|
<link href="http://tilde.town/~rogbeer/2018/11/23/cloudy/"/>
|
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|
|
@ -20,6 +954,14 @@
|
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<content type="html"><p>A certain kind of coffee in Singapore has been described as ‘too bitter and
|
<content type="html"><p>A certain kind of coffee in Singapore has been described as ‘too bitter and
|
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too sweet at the same time’, if I am not mistaken in my recollection.</p>
|
too sweet at the same time’, if I am not mistaken in my recollection.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
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|
<p>“When we tail ministers or members of parliaments in their tours of
|
||||||
|
the orderly housing estates, I buy them [the camera crew] little plastic bags of milky tea
|
||||||
|
or coffee. These brews are always too sweet and too bitter at the same
|
||||||
|
time…” - Joanne Leow, 2016.
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://catapult.co/stories/journalism-and-jiujitsu">“Journalism and Jiujitsu: The gentle arts of a dictatorship”</a>.</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>Coffee, when bought in Singapore, is not necessarily in the style of an
|
<p>Coffee, when bought in Singapore, is not necessarily in the style of an
|
||||||
Americano, espresso, Long Black and the like. In my experience, the ones that
|
Americano, espresso, Long Black and the like. In my experience, the ones that
|
||||||
cost SGD$0.70 to $1.50 tend to not be espresso-like or even latte-like - the latter
|
cost SGD$0.70 to $1.50 tend to not be espresso-like or even latte-like - the latter
|
||||||
|
|
|
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24
index.html
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@ -84,22 +84,24 @@ sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too."
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||||||
|
|
||||||
<article class="post">
|
<article class="post">
|
||||||
<h1 class="post-title">
|
<h1 class="post-title">
|
||||||
<a href="/~rogbeer/2018/11/23/cloudy/">
|
<a href="/~rogbeer/2020/07/05/sunny/">
|
||||||
description of a certain kind of coffee in Singapore
|
updates, quickly
|
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</a>
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</a>
|
||||||
</h1>
|
</h1>
|
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<time datetime="2018-11-23T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">23 Nov 2018</time>
|
<time datetime="2020-07-05T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">05 Jul 2020</time>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>A certain kind of coffee in Singapore has been described as ‘too bitter and
|
<p>Not much time on my hands (to make this post).</p>
|
||||||
too sweet at the same time’, if I am not mistaken in my recollection.</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>Coffee, when bought in Singapore, is not necessarily in the style of an
|
<ul>
|
||||||
Americano, espresso, Long Black and the like. In my experience, the ones that
|
<li>Started a journal that I’m publishing on Github, intentionally challenging
|
||||||
cost SGD$0.70 to $1.50 tend to not be espresso-like or even latte-like - the latter
|
my audience, if any, to be familiar with Git and Github-like websites.
|
||||||
cost, maybe, upwards of SGD$3.</p>
|
<a href="https://github.com/phtan/technologist-journal">https://github.com/phtan/technologist-journal</a></li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Experienced, and still experiencing, challenges with connecting to tilde.town.
|
||||||
|
Firewalls and what-not. VPN doesn’t seem to be an option (yet).</li>
|
||||||
|
</ul>
|
||||||
|
|
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<p>This might be an alert to seekers of coffee who are new in Singapore.</p>
|
<p>Gotta go.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
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</article>
|
</article>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -118,7 +120,7 @@ cost, maybe, upwards of SGD$3.</p>
|
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|
|
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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<title>
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<title>
|
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|
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What I am up to now · What does ~rogbeer put here?
|
what I'm up to now · What does ~rogbeer put here?
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|
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</title>
|
</title>
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
|
@ -81,58 +81,23 @@ sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too."
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||||||
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||||||
<main>
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<main>
|
||||||
<article class="page">
|
<article class="page">
|
||||||
<h1 class="page-title">What I am up to now</h1>
|
<h1 class="page-title">what I'm up to now</h1>
|
||||||
<h3 id="introduction">Introduction</h3>
|
<p>I’m pursuing these, just to list a few (in no particular order):</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>This is my proverbial jump onto the band-wagon of the <a href="https://nownownow.com/about">“now page”</a>,
|
<ol>
|
||||||
which <a href="https://sivers.org/now3">Mr. Derek Sivers wrote about</a>.</p>
|
<li>Waiting for the results of my submission, of
|
||||||
|
<a href="https://alls-futility.tumblr.com/post/614080452947591168/a-series-of-seven-photos-as-yet-untitled-the">seven photos</a>,
|
||||||
<h3 id="now">Now</h3>
|
to <a href="http://sipf.sg">Singapore
|
||||||
|
International Photography Festival</a>.</li>
|
||||||
<p>As of the date 14th November 2018 A.D., I’m engaged in part-time employment
|
<li>Getting re-acquainted with the ground, as a way to have fun and delight.
|
||||||
in the kitchen of a restaurant of “Italian casual dining”.</p>
|
I got a reminder about that, from Vaishali Iyer’s <a href="https://thestillspace.org/2020/03/22/ode-to-the-ground/">blog-post</a>.</li>
|
||||||
|
<li>Determining if <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Writers-Collective/">a writers’ group</a> is helpful for me.</li>
|
||||||
<p>I decided to work part-time instead of full-time because I still want to
|
<li>a pleasure for me: staying in touch with friends. This includes chatting over software like WhatsApp.</li>
|
||||||
commit to volunteering. What kind of volunteering? I am helping out with
|
<li>keeping my time free to do whatever I may become excited about.</li>
|
||||||
the administrative tasks of running a soup kitchen, of sorts, for migrant-workers
|
</ol>
|
||||||
in Singapore. I am volunteering with a non-profit organisation.
|
|
||||||
More info <a href="http://twc2.org.sg/what-we-do/cuff-road-food-programme/">here</a></p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>What makes me want to do the above?</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>I want to please <a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a>,
|
|
||||||
so both of the efforts above are what I feel called
|
|
||||||
to do after reading the Bible, where I can find out about what my god likes
|
|
||||||
and doesn’t like.</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>I’ve discovered that art (as in art-making) helps me process my experiences,
|
|
||||||
including emotions and states of being, and in this direction, I’ve made
|
|
||||||
a few paintings and put them up for sale
|
|
||||||
(on <a href="https://tonychen.bigcartel.com">an online store</a>).</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>I want to stay tuned to the mystery behind (the impulse and/or need of)
|
|
||||||
art-making - this means I have to maintain a position/stance of patience, and even
|
|
||||||
surrender, to see what comes up and when it comes up.</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>I entrust this matter,
|
|
||||||
as with all matters in my life, to my god, who is good, and whose ways are
|
|
||||||
blameless.</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>More concretely, this means being aware - developing an intuition, even - for
|
|
||||||
what feeds my art - as an aside, perhaps, this is perhaps related to the
|
|
||||||
somewhat unsavoury character that has been attributed to artists in general,
|
|
||||||
such as Hesse’s portrayal of an artist-womaniser in the fictional story
|
|
||||||
of
|
|
||||||
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5954.Narcissus_and_Goldmund">‘Narcissus and Goldmund’</a> -
|
|
||||||
and giving myself permission to pursue it/those,
|
|
||||||
whatever it/they may be.</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>Somewhat related to my paintings are a visual journal that I am maintaining
|
|
||||||
(and hosting <a href="https://trust-in-jehovah.tumblr.com">on Tumblr</a>). It’s been
|
|
||||||
suggested to me, by <a href="http://mira-yoon.format.com">an art-therapist</a>,
|
|
||||||
to keep one; if my god is willing, it will
|
|
||||||
be inspiration that a future me could come across.</p>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>This has been a <a href="https://nownownow.com/about">Now-page</a>, written on 31st March
|
||||||
|
2020.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</article>
|
</article>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -140,7 +105,7 @@ be inspiration that a future me could come across.</p>
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|
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@ -84,28 +84,45 @@ sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too."
|
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<article class="post">
|
<article class="post">
|
||||||
<h1 class="post-title">
|
<h1 class="post-title">
|
||||||
<a href="/~rogbeer/2018/11/12/sunny/">
|
<a href="/~rogbeer/2020/04/05/sunny-morning/">
|
||||||
Places, in Singapore, where I have had wine for about SGD$10
|
Q&A for me
|
||||||
</a>
|
</a>
|
||||||
</h1>
|
</h1>
|
||||||
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|
||||||
<time datetime="2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">12 Nov 2018</time>
|
<time datetime="2020-04-05T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">05 Apr 2020</time>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>From what I remember, a can of beer, bought from a convenience store, costs
|
<p>I love reading interviews. Whether it is an interview of Kevin Ma, founder
|
||||||
more in Singapore than in Taipei, the capital-city of Taiwan, so maybe
|
of the magazine known as Hypebeast, or <a href="https://sivers.org/2015-12-ferriss">an interview of Derek Sivers</a>, entrepreneur
|
||||||
the price of a glass of wine is more expensive in Singapore than in Taipei, too,
|
who reportedly said No to selling his business for millions of dollars,
|
||||||
if not elsewhere.</p>
|
I get to find out a bit more about these people.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<p>Having said that, I have somewhat frequented the following establishments,
|
<p>So, one day, I thought, how about I interview myself? Then others can find
|
||||||
during so-called ‘happy hours’; the price comes up to SGD$10 to SGD$11 for a
|
out more about me. [chuckles].</p>
|
||||||
glass, at the most. I list the price of a glass of wine, whether it be red or white:</p>
|
|
||||||
|
<p>But… what would I ever ask myself?</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Thankfully, I found some questions that were addressed to the public, on
|
||||||
|
the social-network web-site known as LinkedIn, and guess what, I answered them!</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>And now, I collect my answers to those questions, in this blog-post! Ta-dah!
|
||||||
|
I have an interview… of myself! (Although others asked those questions).</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>[clears throat]. Let’s start the interview!</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><strong>How are you challenging yourself in 2020? - Elisha</strong></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>My challenge for myself so far, in 2020, is to balance my time on social media - or, more broadly speaking, my time on an electronic computing device - with my time off the Internet. It would be interesting to see how I can do this in the light of a trend towards webinar(s) and work-from-home, set against a background of virus-news, virus-concerns, virus-fretting, virus-worrying and virus-scares.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><strong>What has been one project or assignment in which you broke the rules and had fun in the creative process? - Joseph</strong></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>I once took an undergraduate-course on Composing Music in the Classical Style (for example, in the style of Mozart). For an assignment in that course, I wrote a musical work that appears to be thoroughly twentieth-century, instead of looking eighteenth-century. My course-instructor did not accept my work, but I still had fun. (I’ve realised the importance of surrounding myself with people who value creativity and innovation - which is not everyone, and I certainly don’t really appreciate flattery and/or smooth talk, either).</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p><strong>Tell me what is your oops-boo-hoo moment this week, and what you learnt from it. - Phing</strong></p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>An “oops-boo-hoo” of mine, as you call it? I run a blog where I post photos from my trips to art-galleries in Sg. Art-hunting, if you will. But I got a
|
||||||
|
little lost; something didn’t feel right (about such blogging) anymore. I
|
||||||
|
asked the person known, on LinkedIn.com , as Alin Sneha Abraham, for her perspective on the matter; I said I wasn’t sure if my blogging was adding value to the world. Alin said something to the effect that it is more important that I enjoy myself; that way, at least one person benefits. So my oops-boo-hoo was to overlook my own enjoyment of the activity in question. I concluded that I liked visiting galleries, but posting photos on social media? Not so much.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<ol>
|
|
||||||
<li><a href="https://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/bruno-s-pizzeria-grill/">Bruno’s Bistrot/Pizzaria & 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 & 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>
|
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<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>
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Quotes I found on the web-site/blog of an artist
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A challenge I face in pursuing excellence
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<p>I reproduce a few quotes that I found on the web-site ‘Slow Muse:
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<p>A challenge I face in pursuing excellence is… <em>[drum roll]</em>… finding others who pursue excellence.</p>
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By Deborah Barlow’ (<a href="http://www.slowmuse.com/">http://www.slowmuse.com/</a>).</p>
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<p>Okay, maybe that wasn’t such a surprising revelation. As the saying goes, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man another”.</p>
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<p>For me, it is not satisfactory enough to look to my contemporaries - I have looked centuries back, hoping to appreciate greatness.</p>
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<p>In Classical Music,</p>
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<li>Beethoven’s Cello Sonata, Op. 102</li>
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<li>Bartók’s “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”</li>
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<p>In Russian literature,</p>
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<li>Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, “Eugene Onegin”</li>
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<li>Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”</li>
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<li>a fairly modern film, Wong Kar-Wai’s “In the mood for love”</li>
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<li>A song by The Beatles, “Come together”</li>
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<p>In concluding, I note that if I have a small, puny mind, the world I see is a small, puny world. I wish for a mind that can see greatness in even the smallest thing - eyes that can see beauty and wonder.</p>
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<p>For example, can I learn, from a dog, how to be happy, while being held on a leash? Or, from a cat, how to meditate?</p>
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<p>I close with a quote from the classic tale, “The little prince”:</p>
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<p>What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds
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<p>“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”</p>
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water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose
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skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely
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natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.</p>
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<p><em>This post first appeared <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6648108747728216064/">on LinkedIn</a>.</em></p>
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<p>How to live? A life in the world or a world in the head? To be seen
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visibility is a luxury. Rarely are earth-colored tones the symbols of
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opulence and royal blood. We are most comfortable being hidden
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<p>– Jane Hirschfield, in the book ‘Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry’</p>
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<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>
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<p>– Deborah Barlow, in <a href="http://www.slowmuse.com/2018/10/11/yet-to-come/">the blog-post ‘Yet to come’</a></p>
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What I learnt in Computer Science
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A brief analysis of the artistic merit of videos made by Peeping Toms/voyeurs
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<time datetime="2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">30 Oct 2018</time>
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<time datetime="2020-03-12T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">12 Mar 2020</time>
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<p>I dropped out from an undergraduate course in Computer Science (CS, for short).</p>
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<p>Maybe in the past it was more artistic (and consensual between
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photographer/cameraman and subject)</p>
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<p>While I was attending CS courses, however, I learnt how to detach myself, or abstract
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<p>I refer to Brassaï ‘s 1931 photo, “A suit for two in the magic city”, which
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myself, from technological tools, which, as a so-called ‘digital native’ may
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features some extent of (the suggestion of) male nudity.
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know, changes ever so frequently.</p>
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in it,
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clearly there are homosexual themes
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and there is some expression of
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intimacy as well</p>
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<p>I learnt that if I have a fundamental skill, or what
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<p>Nowadays, if I were to
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<a href="https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~bleong/">(one of)</a>
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use a popular expression, people are “going from bad to worse”</p>
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my lecturer(s)
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called ‘first principles’, I can solve a given problem, regardless of how
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seemingly foreign the problem may be.</p>
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<p>Applying this concept in another context, it could be said that if I know
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<p>And Peeping Toms/voyeurs who arrive later in history, in their “artistic work” - if it could be so termed - seem to demonstrate a clear lack of what the writer Edgar Allan Poe calls the Poetic Principle: their works do not “elevate the soul”, as a poetic work should</p>
|
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the fundamental skills in social dealings, then regardless of which country,
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or culture, I find myself in, I can thrive (and not merely survive - but
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that’s a topic for another time, perhaps).</p>
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||||||
<p>That’s powerful. That’s empowering. (As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish,
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and you feed him once. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a life-time.”)
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And it gives one confidence. It
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certainly gives me confidence.</p>
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<p>But of course I credit all these lessons and benefits, or perks, to
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<a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a> and his kindness and goodness.</p>
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