Thoughts
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Singapore Writers Festival – Fringe: The City of Desire
12 Nov 2012 The City of Desire was a nice attempt by T.H.E Second Company, the youth training wing of T.H.E Dance Company in capturing the emotional aspects... -
Singapore Writers Festival – Special Festival Pass Event: Dramatised Presentation of Desmond Sim’s The Chair
11 Nov 2012 The Chair was Desmond Sim’s critique of the biased emphasis of Peranakan... -
Marina Mahathir Book Launch – Telling It Straight at Select Bookstore
10 Nov 2012 Marina’s Telling It Straight is a compilation of some of her best articles from the musing columns of The Star. She talks about life in Malaysia... -
Singapore Writers Festival – Off The Page: Books and Beer
9 Nov 2012 The precious part of this entire book swap session was at the end, when we are done browsing and beaming with an armful of good reads... -
Singapore Writers Festival – In the Beginning, there was the Story… Featuring Michael Cunningham
7 Nov 2012 Michael Cunningham delivered a lecture to the crowd with history, facts and analyses intertwined and packaged... -
Singapore Writers Festival – Marina Mahathir in Conversation with Catherine Lim
6 Nov 2012 With Catherine Lim and Marina Mahathir's incisive observation and long-term activity in societal platforms, the conversation almost became... -
Singapore Writers Festival – Panel Discussion: Translation in Theatre / 座谈会:剧场中的翻译
5 Nov 2012 Translating a play script for the stage, is not as simple as para-phrasing the words, verbatim. It takes on... -
Advanced as a Student
24 May 2012 It was an after-school and after-work time at the (probably) strangest looking school in town – the School Of The Arts. We were told to be here, to attend some lessons, conducted by students... -
Who’s in the Room?
18 May 2012 Have you ever stayed in a hotel room alone when you go overseas? You go through the hustle and bustle of disembarking the plane, getting your luggage, finding your way from the arrival hall of the airport to the lobby... -
Did you see the centaur?
10 May 2012 In the past week you’ve probably noticed some weird sights on the streets of Singapore. You saw (photos of) a man dressed in black riding an almost-black horse, walking through crowds of regular working class, shoppers... -
Up Close with the Creator of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
30 Nov 2011 The messages are abstract… the moods are vague… the ideas are wild… These are part of the reasons that Haruki Murakami’s (村上春樹) works stand out and gain wide... -
Up Close With The Creators Of Pandemic
24 Nov 2011 Singapore is the future of the world… so it’s also the closest to the end of the world…? This is Slung Low’s impression, in an artistic way, of this modern Asian island city. And this is why they came all the way... -
我们都需要疯狂
26 Aug 2011 Arts Republic很新,刚开始了几个月(还没正式开张呢)。一开始,去哪里挖内容呢?到处挖。原来,挖内容的过程并不如想象中痛苦,因为过程中不断会发现不曾知道的乐团、剧团、合唱团、艺术家、艺术爱好者……
