Statue in Park, Curitiba
Iguaçu Falls, Foz do Iguaçu
Muqueca with rice, Bahían restaurant, São Paulo
Catedral de São Pedro de Alcântara, Petrópolis
Sexy tourist beach boys, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Churrascaría (buffet steak restaurant), Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
Pavement, Curitiba
Wire Opera, Curitiba
Lamp post, Rio de Janeiro
Graffiti, São Paulo
Manaus Opera House
Tree stump, Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro
Street corner, São Paulo
Sandcastles, Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro
Japanese crafts shop, Liberdade, São Paulo
View from favela condominium, Rio de Janeiro
Bus stop, Curitiba
Politically incorrect (but useful!) suntan warning sign, Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro
Cute tour guide, Manaus Opera House
Botanical Garden, Curitiba
Lamp post, São Paulo
Museu Imperial, Petrópolis
Grilled prawns for breakfast, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Subway, Rio de Janeiro
Fat-friendly bus notice, Rio de Janeiro
Jabuticaba berries, sweet flavour, Curitiba
Para Ti Community School, Favela of Vilas Canoas, Rio de Janeiro
View from Novotel São Paulo Jaragua Convention
View of Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro
Cacao juice, Manaus
Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba
Insect, hotel interior, Amazon Jungle
Coixinha, between Curitiba and São Paulo
Christ the Redeemer (facsimile), Rio de Janeiro
Japanese Cultural Centre, Liberdade, São Paulo
Fruit shop, Favela of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro
Phone booth, Manaus
Favela Chapel, Vilas Canoas, Rio de Janeiro
No Smoking Sign, São Paulo
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Not a good day for the Singapore gay community
1. Stuart Koe, founder of Fridae, has been arrested for meth possession. Possible jail time of 13 years.
2. Tan Eng Hong, a 47 year-old man, has been charged under 377A for public sex.
Major downer this Hari Raya.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
August Texts!
Gah! I'm actually getting a bit tired of my Around the World in 80 Books project. The books are amazing, sure, but I can't keep updating every week.
*POETRY*
+Robert Browning’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
+Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Poetry as Insurgent Art”
*FICTION*
+Luís Sepúlveda’s “The Old Man Who Read Love Stories”
=Andrew Grant’s “Singapore Sling Shot”
+Laura Restrepo’s “Delirium”
+John le Carré’s “The Tailor of Panama”
+Miguel Benavides’s “The Children of Mariplata”
=Christine Suchen Lim’s “A Bit of Earth”
*DRAMA*
=“5 Plays From the Third Stage”
+Jean Tay’s “Everything But the Brain”
*NON-FICTION*
+Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe”
*POETRY*
+Robert Browning’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
+Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Poetry as Insurgent Art”
*FICTION*
+Luís Sepúlveda’s “The Old Man Who Read Love Stories”
=Andrew Grant’s “Singapore Sling Shot”
+Laura Restrepo’s “Delirium”
+John le Carré’s “The Tailor of Panama”
+Miguel Benavides’s “The Children of Mariplata”
=Christine Suchen Lim’s “A Bit of Earth”
*DRAMA*
=“5 Plays From the Third Stage”
+Jean Tay’s “Everything But the Brain”
*NON-FICTION*
+Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe”
+Jin Xing's "Shanghai Tango"
*HARD TO CLASSIFY*
=Rubén Darío’s “Azul”
*FILMS*
Boris Boo's “Phua Chu Kang: The Movie”
+Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”
=Muhammad Azhar Mohd. Shukor’s Baju”
=Sherman Ong’s “When the End of Winter Is Almost Spring”
=Sookoon Ang’s “Mosquitoes”
Daniel Hui’s “One Day In June”
+K Rajagopal’s “I Can’t Sleep Tonight”, “The Glare”, “Absence”, “Brother”, “The New World”, “Timeless”
+Eytan Fox’s “Yossi and Jagger”
=Remi Lange’s “Devotee”
+Feng Xiaogang’s “Aftershock”
*PERFORMANCES*
=Short+Sweet Singapore’s “Gala Finals”
=Toy Factory Theatre’s “December Rains” and “White Soliloquies”
+Amrita Performing Arts’ “Khmeropédies I and II”
=Singapore Repertory Theatre’s “Fried Rice Paradise”
=Jean Tay and Wee Lilin’s “Under the Sun”
=STAGES’ “Chestnuts 3D”
Play Den Productions' "Shopping For Chopin"
*EXHIBITIONS*
=IndigNation’s “Rooftop Access”
=Asian Civilisations Museum’s “Sumatra: Isle of Gold”
=Singapore HeritageFest’s “Diverse Threads, One Humanity”
+National Art Gallery’s “The Story of Yeh Chi Wei”
+Evil Empire’s “Negaraku Boleh”
*HARD TO CLASSIFY*
=Rubén Darío’s “Azul”
*FILMS*
Boris Boo's “Phua Chu Kang: The Movie”
+Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”
=Muhammad Azhar Mohd. Shukor’s Baju”
=Sherman Ong’s “When the End of Winter Is Almost Spring”
=Sookoon Ang’s “Mosquitoes”
Daniel Hui’s “One Day In June”
+K Rajagopal’s “I Can’t Sleep Tonight”, “The Glare”, “Absence”, “Brother”, “The New World”, “Timeless”
+Eytan Fox’s “Yossi and Jagger”
=Remi Lange’s “Devotee”
+Feng Xiaogang’s “Aftershock”
*PERFORMANCES*
=Short+Sweet Singapore’s “Gala Finals”
=Toy Factory Theatre’s “December Rains” and “White Soliloquies”
+Amrita Performing Arts’ “Khmeropédies I and II”
=Singapore Repertory Theatre’s “Fried Rice Paradise”
=Jean Tay and Wee Lilin’s “Under the Sun”
=STAGES’ “Chestnuts 3D”
Play Den Productions' "Shopping For Chopin"
*EXHIBITIONS*
=IndigNation’s “Rooftop Access”
=Asian Civilisations Museum’s “Sumatra: Isle of Gold”
=Singapore HeritageFest’s “Diverse Threads, One Humanity”
+National Art Gallery’s “The Story of Yeh Chi Wei”
+Evil Empire’s “Negaraku Boleh”
Friday, August 27, 2010
21st century enlightenment
Watch this, dude. It's a whiteboard-illustrated lecture. Fascinating ideas, captivating images.
In other news, my sister's just flown back to the States. The cat is sad. :(
In other news, my sister's just flown back to the States. The cat is sad. :(
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Participants of "I Hate YOG" Facebook Group Arrested by Police [UPDATE: Actually, there might have been just cause.]
The main target seems to have been Abdul Malek, who was charged with "inciting violence and public disorder" for a comment he left on Facebook.
Oh lord. I knew we'd try and learn from the Beijing Olympics, but I really didn't think the Singapore government would be so frickin' STUPID. This is going to lead to incredibly bad international press for the country.
I'm really hoping there's been some kind of misunderstanding, but it doesn't seem possible. At least some news sources (The New Paper!) are reporting on this. I'm really ashamed of our country now.
Via The Temasek Review.
UPDATE: My friend tells me I should read the New Paper article, which outlines the specific threat that Malek made to a Cabinet Minister, which the police would have the right to at least check out. Phew. Less ashamed now. But I don't have a copy of TNP, so I can't make up my whole mind yet.
UPDATE TO UPDATE: Here's the story from Channel News Asia:
It seems that Malek said it was time to "burn" Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, i.e. make him suffer. The police can say they couldn't afford to assume this was a metaphor, considering that this happened. But it's still pretty ridiculous, and the overreaction will make Singapore look even worse in the press.
(Why do I feel obliged to blog about these things? I could say I hope negative international attention will teach the government not to be so stupid... but that really doesn't seem to work. I suppose my sense of duty to justice is stronger than my sense of loyalty to country. Or perhaps the country that I love is a utopian Singapore, one that has sane governance with regards to freedom of speech, rather than the panic-stricken government we've actually been blessed and cursed with.)
Friday, August 20, 2010
ROJAK 16: next Saturday night!
I'm hosting again!
It'll be on:
28th August 2010,
Saturday, 7pm
Blk 263,
Waterloo Centre,
Singapore 180263
1st storey void deck
It'll be on:
28th August 2010,
Saturday, 7pm
Blk 263,
Waterloo Centre,
Singapore 180263
1st storey void deck
Monday, August 16, 2010
Ever since I became Facebook friends with students in Bengaluru, I've been getting chain letters like this:
“Every successful person has a painful story!
colonels enterprises
Every painful story has a successful ending!
So accept the pain and get ready for success! "
Money Coming Your Way
Money Goddess
This is a Money Goddess Lakshmi. Pass it to 6 of your good friends, or family and be rich in 4 Days.
Pass it to 12 of your good friends or family and be rich in 2 Days.
I am not joking.. You will find an unexpected windfall. If you delete it, you will never know!
SHE WORKS SHE REALLY WORKS
colonels enterprises
Sunday, August 15, 2010
If Michael Jackson had lived in Communist China
Actually, the original title of this video is "迈克杰逊要是知道这视频肯定从棺材里飞出来" - i.e. "If MJ knew about this video, he'd definitely come flying out of his coffin."
Oh yeah, and ContraDiction's tonight! 7-9pm at 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road! I just baked cookies!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
I've been extremely behind with my updates.
But here we go:
1. I'm going to be a torchbearer for the Youth Olympic Games on Friday 13 August, roughly around 10:35am on Kallang Road, slot number 6081. You can stand by the road and support me if you like!
Announcements
Yes, I know it's ridiculous and that the YOG itself is really pretty fucked up, and the uniforms are fugly: baggy grey and orange, with clear stipulations that we are not to alter them or wear them in a non-uniform manner or promote any socio-political-cultural agenda with them while we're running.
But NAC Literary Dept asked me to be a teensy part of Singapore history, and since they've generally been pretty cool people, how could I ever say no?
2. My interview with Boo Junfeng about his upcoming film "Sandcastle" is up on Civic Life.
It's showing in Cinema Europa, VivoCity from 26 August onwards. Go early so you can convince the cinema to keep it in the theatres longer.
3. I never mentioned the fact that I've got a story up there myself: Last Kampong Boy, a brief summary of my father's memories of growing up in Tiong Bahru.
I think I'll talk about ContraDiction in a separate post.
1. I'm going to be a torchbearer for the Youth Olympic Games on Friday 13 August, roughly around 10:35am on Kallang Road, slot number 6081. You can stand by the road and support me if you like!
Announcements
Yes, I know it's ridiculous and that the YOG itself is really pretty fucked up, and the uniforms are fugly: baggy grey and orange, with clear stipulations that we are not to alter them or wear them in a non-uniform manner or promote any socio-political-cultural agenda with them while we're running.
But NAC Literary Dept asked me to be a teensy part of Singapore history, and since they've generally been pretty cool people, how could I ever say no?
2. My interview with Boo Junfeng about his upcoming film "Sandcastle" is up on Civic Life.
It's showing in Cinema Europa, VivoCity from 26 August onwards. Go early so you can convince the cinema to keep it in the theatres longer.
3. I never mentioned the fact that I've got a story up there myself: Last Kampong Boy, a brief summary of my father's memories of growing up in Tiong Bahru.
I think I'll talk about ContraDiction in a separate post.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
I've done an interview with Royston Tan.
It's about his upcoming movie, OLD PLACES/老地方, co-directed with Eva Tang and Vitric Thng. It's up on the Civic Life Tiong Bahru blog, commissioned by the British Council.
The movie itself is being shown on TV: it'll be on Sunday 8 August at 8pm on Okto (wah, so many eights, must be auspicious). It's a series of personal stories told by ordinary Singaporeans about the vanishing places in Singapore.
Trailers here:
Loads of photos on the website. Tune in!
The movie itself is being shown on TV: it'll be on Sunday 8 August at 8pm on Okto (wah, so many eights, must be auspicious). It's a series of personal stories told by ordinary Singaporeans about the vanishing places in Singapore.
Trailers here:
Loads of photos on the website. Tune in!
Monday, August 02, 2010
Texts July 2010
Not much reading this month, but I liked almost all of it. Makes up for all the iffy contemporary theatre I watched in Europe. But more on that later.
*POETRY*
+Cyril Wong’s “Oneiros”
+Ee Tiang Hong’s “Nearing a Horizon”
*FICTION*
+Célestine Hitiura Vaite’s “Frangipani”
+Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Time of the Hero”
*DRAMA*
+Pablo Neruda’s “Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta”
=Jean Tay’s “Boom”
*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Molly Crabapple's "Scarlett Takes Manhattan"
+Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley’s “This Is Why You’re Fat”
+Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna’s “Logicomix”
+Yang Liu’s “East Meets West”
*FILMS*
+Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”
+Steve Pink’s “Hot Tub Time Machine”
*PERFORMANCES*
+Deuten en De Goeij’s “De Schapelaar”
Theatergroep Max’s “Hoera een dochter” and +”Hoera een zoon”
+Thibaud Delpeut’s “Nacht”
=Nanine Linning’s “Dolby”
Orkater Circustheater’s “Ik beloof dat ik onvoorzichtig zal zijn”
=Dave St-Pierre & André Gingras’s “Libido”
=Ivo Dimchev’s “NEXT: Paris”
+Jin Xing Dance Theatre & Chris Haring’s “Lovely Liquid Lounge”
=Bouchra Ouizgen’s “Madame Plaza”
+Willi Dorner’s “Urban Drifting”
Lemi Ponifasio’s “Birds with skymirrors”
+Electric shadows’ “And all the questionmarks started to sing”
John Cale’s “Dyddiau Du – Dark days”
=Ery Mefri’s “Sarikaik – Community”
=Daisuke Miura’s “Yume no shiro - castle of dreams”
the first bit of Beatriz Catani’s “Insomnio – sleeplessness”, until I walked out
+ Handspring Puppet Company’s “Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria – The return of Ulysses to his homeland”
=Faifai’s “My name is I love you”
= Rachid Ouramdane’s “Loin...- Far...”
+Singapore Lyric Opera’s “The Magic Flute”
*EXHIBITIONS*
+Museum Folkwang’s “A Star Is Born: Fotografie und Rock seit Elvis” and “The Most Beautiful Museum in the World”
+Julia Stoschek Collection’s “100 Years”
+K21 Ständehaus’s “Intensif-Station”
+Singapore Art Museum’s “Singapore Youth Festival Art and Crafts Exhibition”
*POETRY*
+Cyril Wong’s “Oneiros”
+Ee Tiang Hong’s “Nearing a Horizon”
*FICTION*
+Célestine Hitiura Vaite’s “Frangipani”
+Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Time of the Hero”
*DRAMA*
+Pablo Neruda’s “Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta”
=Jean Tay’s “Boom”
*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Molly Crabapple's "Scarlett Takes Manhattan"
+Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley’s “This Is Why You’re Fat”
+Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna’s “Logicomix”
+Yang Liu’s “East Meets West”
*FILMS*
+Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”
+Steve Pink’s “Hot Tub Time Machine”
*PERFORMANCES*
+Deuten en De Goeij’s “De Schapelaar”
Theatergroep Max’s “Hoera een dochter” and +”Hoera een zoon”
+Thibaud Delpeut’s “Nacht”
=Nanine Linning’s “Dolby”
Orkater Circustheater’s “Ik beloof dat ik onvoorzichtig zal zijn”
=Dave St-Pierre & André Gingras’s “Libido”
=Ivo Dimchev’s “NEXT: Paris”
+Jin Xing Dance Theatre & Chris Haring’s “Lovely Liquid Lounge”
=Bouchra Ouizgen’s “Madame Plaza”
+Willi Dorner’s “Urban Drifting”
Lemi Ponifasio’s “Birds with skymirrors”
+Electric shadows’ “And all the questionmarks started to sing”
John Cale’s “Dyddiau Du – Dark days”
=Ery Mefri’s “Sarikaik – Community”
=Daisuke Miura’s “Yume no shiro - castle of dreams”
the first bit of Beatriz Catani’s “Insomnio – sleeplessness”, until I walked out
+ Handspring Puppet Company’s “Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria – The return of Ulysses to his homeland”
=Faifai’s “My name is I love you”
= Rachid Ouramdane’s “Loin...- Far...”
+Singapore Lyric Opera’s “The Magic Flute”
*EXHIBITIONS*
+Museum Folkwang’s “A Star Is Born: Fotografie und Rock seit Elvis” and “The Most Beautiful Museum in the World”
+Julia Stoschek Collection’s “100 Years”
+K21 Ständehaus’s “Intensif-Station”
+Singapore Art Museum’s “Singapore Youth Festival Art and Crafts Exhibition”
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The IndigNation calendar is up!
Click here! Naturally, it includes the queer literary reading ContraDiction!
ContraDiction SIX!
Sunday 15 Aug
7-9pm@72-13
Our annual queer literary reading is back! Curated and hosted by Ng Yi-Sheng, this year’s edition will feature writers such as poet Joel Tan, fiction writer O Thiam Chin, songwriter Amanda Tee and (hetero) guest stars Bani Haykal and Michaela Therese.
ContraDiction SIX!
Sunday 15 Aug
7-9pm@72-13
Our annual queer literary reading is back! Curated and hosted by Ng Yi-Sheng, this year’s edition will feature writers such as poet Joel Tan, fiction writer O Thiam Chin, songwriter Amanda Tee and (hetero) guest stars Bani Haykal and Michaela Therese.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Singapore goes gay!
Just check out this archived front page from the Straits Times, 17 September 1963.
I also had to do a double-take for the ad that says "low-cost cooker".
Full-size image at http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19630917.1.1.aspx. Via Zak. :)
I also had to do a double-take for the ad that says "low-cost cooker".
Full-size image at http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19630917.1.1.aspx. Via Zak. :)
Monday, July 19, 2010
Singapore arrests British author Alan Shadrake for criminal defamation
Seems to be related to his banned book, "Once a Jolly Hangman", about Singapore's death penalty. Happened just today. He's 75 years old.
I'm really disgusted with the Singapore government right now. More details at the links below.
http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/3931-breaking-news-author-of-death-penalty-book-alan-shadrake-arrested
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/author-alan-shadrake-arrested-for-alleged-criminal-defamation/
http://sgblogs.com/entry/alan-shadrake-crime/387001
I'm really disgusted with the Singapore government right now. More details at the links below.
http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/3931-breaking-news-author-of-death-penalty-book-alan-shadrake-arrested
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/author-alan-shadrake-arrested-for-alleged-criminal-defamation/
http://sgblogs.com/entry/alan-shadrake-crime/387001
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Another Martyn See film gets banned.
Actually, this is just footage of a speech by former Barisan Socialis member Dr Lim Hock Siew at the launch of the book, "The Fajar Generation".
View it here. Also read Martyn's account of the ban here.
And then write to the Media Development Authority at their Online Feedback site to tell them you don't appreciate their taking away your right to information.
View it here. Also read Martyn's account of the ban here.
And then write to the Media Development Authority at their Online Feedback site to tell them you don't appreciate their taking away your right to information.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Five Foot Broadway Mini Musicals
Presented by MUSICAL THEATRE LIMITED
SIX new short musicals are performed In-Concert style, showcasing local musicals writers:
YS: I won't be around for this, so why don't you turn up and let me know how it goes?
1. MEE POK MAN (Ng YiSheng and Ting Si Hao)
2. CUPID'S BET (Darius Lim and Ken Lyen)
3. THE OTHER WOMAN (Stella Kon and Desmond Moey)
4. IL CASINO (Richard Lord and Ken Lyen)
5. ESTHER (Joshua Greene)
6. BIRTHDAY BLUES (Mohamad Shaifulbahri and Ken Lyen)
FREE Admission - Register through email MTLminimusicals.register@yahoo.com.sg .
The HALL, The Arts House
2010 July 9 FRI 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)
2010 Jul 10 SAT 2:30pm (SOLD OUT)
3. THE OTHER WOMAN (Stella Kon and Desmond Moey)
4. IL CASINO (Richard Lord and Ken Lyen)
5. ESTHER (Joshua Greene)
6. BIRTHDAY BLUES (Mohamad Shaifulbahri and Ken Lyen)
FREE Admission - Register through email MTLminimusicals.register@yahoo.com.sg .
The HALL, The Arts House
2010 July 9 FRI 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)
2010 Jul 10 SAT 2:30pm (SOLD OUT)
2010 Jul 10 SAT 7:30pm (NEW SHOW!)
Call Desmond Moey (+65) 92721648
Call Desmond Moey (+65) 92721648
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Fyi, I'll be in Europe from 4 to 22 July.
I have a press pass for the Over het IJ and Julidans Festivals in Amsterdam, then the Theater der Welt festival in Ruhr, which is part of its European Cultural Capital 2010 celebrations.
View Europe trip in a larger map
Yeah, I'm surprised they gave it to me too. After that I'll be in Zurich for a week, working on a book.
View Europe trip in a larger map
Yeah, I'm surprised they gave it to me too. After that I'll be in Zurich for a week, working on a book.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Texts June 2010
A lot of the performances I watched for the Singapore Arts Festival blog.
The books, on the other hand, feature in a new blog, Around the World in 80 Books! Basically, I'm trying to read my way around the world, one book from one adjacent country at a time.
Meanwhile, my Singapore Biennale Blog, which I was updating every now and then even though it's two years since the last one, has been unceremoniously erased. Good luck to them trying to get me to work with them again.
*POETRY*
+Christopher Reid’s “A Scattering”
=Sudesh Mishra’s “diaspora and the difficult art of dying”
Konai Helu Thaman’s “Hingano”
=Kauraka Kauraka’s “Return to Havaiki”
*FICTION*
+David Leavitt’s “The Lost Language of Cranes”
+Jack London’s “Jerry of the Islands” [Be warned!!! Extremely racist!!!]
+James A. Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific”
+Wena Poon’s “The Proper Care of Foxes”
+Janet Frame’s “Owls Do Cry”
+Albert Wendt’s “Leaves of the Banyan Tree”
Ze Lin Xiao’s “Tutuila”
*DRAMA*
=Tanika Gupta’s “The Waiting Room”
+David Hare’s “The Blue Room”
+Alfian Sa’at’s “Collected Plays Volume 1”
*NON-FICTION*
+E. Benjamin Skinner’s “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery”
*HARD TO CLASSIFY*
+Charu Nivedita’s “Zero Degree”
*FILMS*
+Nina Paley’s “Sita Sings the Blues”
+“Shrek: Forever After”
+Satoshi Kon’s “Millennium Actress”
= Baratz's "Unmistaken Child"
+Lee Unkrich's "Toy Story 3"
*PERFORMANCES*
+Singapore Arts Festival’s “Platform Campus”
=Joyce Koh’s “On the String”
=Singapore Street Festival’s “Street Revolution Jam”
=a bit of Atsuhiro Ito feat. Zai Kuning and the Analog Girl
+AWARE’s “Superwomen in Concert”
+Nanning Cantonese Opera Troupe’s “Mulian Rescues His Mother”
+Compagnie Une de Plus's "Trois"
=Singapore Arts Festival’s “Open Studio”
+Theatrestrays’ “The Lower Depths”
Meg Stuart and Philippe Gehmacher’s “Maybe Forever”
=Singapore Arts Festival's "Mega Line Dance"
+Beijing Paper Tiger Studio’s “Cool”
=Pangdemonium’s “The Full Monty”
*EXHIBITIONS*
+Era Dance Theatre Unlimited, Yayasan Warisan Johor and Langkan Budaya Taratak’s “Zapin d’Muara”
National Museum’s “Singapore 1960”
=National Library’s “Rihlah – Arabs in Southeast Asia” and “William Farquhar”
NUS Museum’s +“Dire Patterns: Antipas Delotavo”, =“Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery” and +“Tracing Taiping”
The books, on the other hand, feature in a new blog, Around the World in 80 Books! Basically, I'm trying to read my way around the world, one book from one adjacent country at a time.
Meanwhile, my Singapore Biennale Blog, which I was updating every now and then even though it's two years since the last one, has been unceremoniously erased. Good luck to them trying to get me to work with them again.
*POETRY*
+Christopher Reid’s “A Scattering”
=Sudesh Mishra’s “diaspora and the difficult art of dying”
Konai Helu Thaman’s “Hingano”
=Kauraka Kauraka’s “Return to Havaiki”
*FICTION*
+David Leavitt’s “The Lost Language of Cranes”
+Jack London’s “Jerry of the Islands” [Be warned!!! Extremely racist!!!]
+James A. Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific”
+Wena Poon’s “The Proper Care of Foxes”
+Janet Frame’s “Owls Do Cry”
+Albert Wendt’s “Leaves of the Banyan Tree”
Ze Lin Xiao’s “Tutuila”
*DRAMA*
=Tanika Gupta’s “The Waiting Room”
+David Hare’s “The Blue Room”
+Alfian Sa’at’s “Collected Plays Volume 1”
*NON-FICTION*
+E. Benjamin Skinner’s “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery”
*HARD TO CLASSIFY*
+Charu Nivedita’s “Zero Degree”
*FILMS*
+Nina Paley’s “Sita Sings the Blues”
+“Shrek: Forever After”
+Satoshi Kon’s “Millennium Actress”
= Baratz's "Unmistaken Child"
+Lee Unkrich's "Toy Story 3"
*PERFORMANCES*
+Singapore Arts Festival’s “Platform Campus”
=Joyce Koh’s “On the String”
=Singapore Street Festival’s “Street Revolution Jam”
=a bit of Atsuhiro Ito feat. Zai Kuning and the Analog Girl
+AWARE’s “Superwomen in Concert”
+Nanning Cantonese Opera Troupe’s “Mulian Rescues His Mother”
+Compagnie Une de Plus's "Trois"
=Singapore Arts Festival’s “Open Studio”
+Theatrestrays’ “The Lower Depths”
Meg Stuart and Philippe Gehmacher’s “Maybe Forever”
=Singapore Arts Festival's "Mega Line Dance"
+Beijing Paper Tiger Studio’s “Cool”
=Pangdemonium’s “The Full Monty”
*EXHIBITIONS*
+Era Dance Theatre Unlimited, Yayasan Warisan Johor and Langkan Budaya Taratak’s “Zapin d’Muara”
National Museum’s “Singapore 1960”
=National Library’s “Rihlah – Arabs in Southeast Asia” and “William Farquhar”
NUS Museum’s +“Dire Patterns: Antipas Delotavo”, =“Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery” and +“Tracing Taiping”
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
A review of "Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia" in Cordite Magazine
It's a short review. The weird thing is, there are only three poets mentioned in the whole thing, and I'm the only Singaporean.
Click here: http://www.cordite.org.au/?p=9719
UPDATE: How blind of me. There are four poets, and Heng Siok Tian's the other Singaporean. D'oh!
Click here: http://www.cordite.org.au/?p=9719
UPDATE: How blind of me. There are four poets, and Heng Siok Tian's the other Singaporean. D'oh!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
No to censorship - Regulate instead
I should've posted this weeks ago, but better late than never. Arts Engage has created a position paper on behalf of the arts community, urging the nominally independent Censorship Review Committee to get their act together and actually advocate freeing up culture her instead of just being the MDA's rubber stamp.
I'm slightly involved in the report: they interviewed me and have included the cases of Lee Low Tar, the ContraDiction literary readings and 251 as case studies.
The main point they're putting across is that instead of censorship, a system of arts regulation would be preferable - something that provides classifications but ultimately leaves the issue of choice to the individual audience member.
Sign the petition against censorship in Singapore at http://sites.google.com/site/artsengagesg/.
From the website:
What is censorship of the arts? It is the control of content, prevention of production and prohibition of presentation, of artistic expressions.
In censorship, ideas and material considered objectionable or problematic by the censor, are suppressed, and often justified as an attempt to protect minors and adults from content that would apparently harm them. But is that really the case?
The value of the arts is not only in their entertainment, but also in the ways in which the arts provides us with food for thought, broadens our perspectives and gives us new insight to the world around us.
Isn't it your right to decide what would or would not be objectionable to you?
The position of the arts community paper on Censorship and Regulation is for regulation - an independent, unexceptional and impartial process of providing information about content that allows art to be produced as intended, and for you to choose what you would experience and enjoy.
I'm slightly involved in the report: they interviewed me and have included the cases of Lee Low Tar, the ContraDiction literary readings and 251 as case studies.
The main point they're putting across is that instead of censorship, a system of arts regulation would be preferable - something that provides classifications but ultimately leaves the issue of choice to the individual audience member.
Sign the petition against censorship in Singapore at http://sites.google.com/site/artsengagesg/.
From the website:
What is censorship of the arts? It is the control of content, prevention of production and prohibition of presentation, of artistic expressions.
In censorship, ideas and material considered objectionable or problematic by the censor, are suppressed, and often justified as an attempt to protect minors and adults from content that would apparently harm them. But is that really the case?
The value of the arts is not only in their entertainment, but also in the ways in which the arts provides us with food for thought, broadens our perspectives and gives us new insight to the world around us.
Isn't it your right to decide what would or would not be objectionable to you?
The position of the arts community paper on Censorship and Regulation is for regulation - an independent, unexceptional and impartial process of providing information about content that allows art to be produced as intended, and for you to choose what you would experience and enjoy.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Chua Siew Nai (1923-2010)
She was my grandma. Even when the first of these photos was taken, she couldn't walk, talk or go to the toilet or eat by herself. Hadn't been able to for years. And even before that, we'd hardly been able to communicate because of language differences.
She passed away on Monday morning, just after midnight. The funeral ended last Saturday. Don't worry, I'm not actually torn up about it. And there's hardly anything for me to miss.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Pac-Man vs. Mario
Technically, I'm in mourning. But that doesn't mean I've stopped surfing Boingboing.
Yay for the Russians!
Yay for the Russians!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Fuck. The Singapore Police Force is using entrapment against gay sex again.
From the Electric New Paper, via Roy Tan on Facebook.
Man gropes cop in cemetery
By Elysa Chen
June 11, 2010 Print Ready Email Article
On May 4, the police conducted an anti-vice operation at the old cemetery along Jalan Kubor, an area known for vice.
The police declined to to give details of the vice activities.
A plainclothes policeman was standing alone in a poorly lit spot when he was approached by Jagadiswaran Krisnan, 32, a coffee house supervisor, at about 10.40pm.
Jagadiswaran struck up a conversation with the undercover cop.
Two other police officers were stationed a short distance away, ready to provide help.
While talking to the officer, Jagadiswaran, a Malaysian, moved closer to him. He told the officer that he was there "to have fun".
Then, he suddenly raised his hand and stroked the officer's chest and private parts.
That was when the undercover cop identified himself and, with the help of his colleagues, arrested the man.
Jagadiswaran was charged with behaving in an indecent manner in a public place. He was fined $1,000 on Tuesday.
**
YS: Indecent manner? I'll give you an indecent manner. Fucking pigs. How do we complain?
Man gropes cop in cemetery
By Elysa Chen
June 11, 2010 Print Ready Email Article
On May 4, the police conducted an anti-vice operation at the old cemetery along Jalan Kubor, an area known for vice.
The police declined to to give details of the vice activities.
A plainclothes policeman was standing alone in a poorly lit spot when he was approached by Jagadiswaran Krisnan, 32, a coffee house supervisor, at about 10.40pm.
Jagadiswaran struck up a conversation with the undercover cop.
Two other police officers were stationed a short distance away, ready to provide help.
While talking to the officer, Jagadiswaran, a Malaysian, moved closer to him. He told the officer that he was there "to have fun".
Then, he suddenly raised his hand and stroked the officer's chest and private parts.
That was when the undercover cop identified himself and, with the help of his colleagues, arrested the man.
Jagadiswaran was charged with behaving in an indecent manner in a public place. He was fined $1,000 on Tuesday.
**
YS: Indecent manner? I'll give you an indecent manner. Fucking pigs. How do we complain?
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Who's gonna win Singapore Literature Prize 2010?
I'm reading Wena Poon's "The Proper Care of Foxes" now.
It's the best book of short stories I've seen come out of Singapore in a long time - possibly since Alfian Sa'at's "Corridor".
I'm trying to figure out whether it should/will beat Cyril Wong's "Let Me Tell You Something About That Night", which is incredibly excellent, but also extremely difficult. It really alienates some people, including Mohan, and of course, who knows if Cyril's even submitted it.
I think Edwin Thumboo's "Still Travelling" will be shortlisted, but it won't win.
Johann S. Lee's "Quiet Time" ought to get shortlisted, if anyone's bothered to submit it.
Am probably leaving out loads of other books. Any guesses?
UPDATE: How could I forget Koh Jee Leong's kickass book of poetry "Equal to the Earth" (in which I'm actually mentioned)?
Wow, nothing by Firstfruits in this lineup.
It's the best book of short stories I've seen come out of Singapore in a long time - possibly since Alfian Sa'at's "Corridor".
I'm trying to figure out whether it should/will beat Cyril Wong's "Let Me Tell You Something About That Night", which is incredibly excellent, but also extremely difficult. It really alienates some people, including Mohan, and of course, who knows if Cyril's even submitted it.
I think Edwin Thumboo's "Still Travelling" will be shortlisted, but it won't win.
Johann S. Lee's "Quiet Time" ought to get shortlisted, if anyone's bothered to submit it.
Am probably leaving out loads of other books. Any guesses?
UPDATE: How could I forget Koh Jee Leong's kickass book of poetry "Equal to the Earth" (in which I'm actually mentioned)?
Wow, nothing by Firstfruits in this lineup.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
ROJAK 15! I'm co-hosting.
Who: FARM
Where: Emily hill, 11 Upper WIlkie Road, Singapore 228120
When: 12.06.2010 Sat 08.00pm till 12.06.2010
It has been a long while since the last one. We have been busy the whole of last year and also spent some time moving to our new space. But now we are back with ROJAK 15!
It's happening on 12th June, Saturday, 8pm till late at a lovely shed on Emily Hill. Thank you to the good people at Emily Hill and sixdegrees for their cosy space for the night. You can see the shed in the poster, taken by Jeremy San! Thanks Jeremy :)
For directions and a better view of the space, you can download the poster here.
Kelvin Ang and Ng Yi-Sheng will join us once again as the hosts for the night.
Our presenters for the evening, in no particular order:
1. MINDWASABI, Design Strategy
2. Rage Goh, Poetry
3. Nataliette, Illustration
4. Natalie Lee, Graphic Design
5. Liao Jiekai, Film
6. Jeff Chouw, Photography
7. Brian Chia, Graphic Design
8. Dan Prichard, Film
9. Kenneth Chong, Architecture and Arts
10. Chan Mei Hsien, Fine Arts
It's happening on 12th June, Saturday, 8pm till late at a lovely shed on Emily Hill. Thank you to the good people at Emily Hill and sixdegrees for their cosy space for the night. You can see the shed in the poster, taken by Jeremy San! Thanks Jeremy :)
For directions and a better view of the space, you can download the poster here.
Kelvin Ang and Ng Yi-Sheng will join us once again as the hosts for the night.
Our presenters for the evening, in no particular order:
1. MINDWASABI, Design Strategy
2. Rage Goh, Poetry
3. Nataliette, Illustration
4. Natalie Lee, Graphic Design
5. Liao Jiekai, Film
6. Jeff Chouw, Photography
7. Brian Chia, Graphic Design
8. Dan Prichard, Film
9. Kenneth Chong, Architecture and Arts
10. Chan Mei Hsien, Fine Arts
(For the actual links, go to the original invite here.)
Bring drinks and beer to share for the beloved ROJAK dinghy!
It's all in the spirit of ROJAK sharing :)
Bring drinks and beer to share for the beloved ROJAK dinghy!
It's all in the spirit of ROJAK sharing :)
See you there!
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
I wrote a poem about football.
It was printed in today's Today newspaper. The graphic is really super-cheesy (they printed our poems in curly fonts on scrolls for crying out loud, way to alienate the non-poetry reading crowd). But there's some decent stuff.
Commissioned by Mayo Martin, but I take credit for suggesting Pooja Nansi and Leong Liew Geok. Click here.
Commissioned by Mayo Martin, but I take credit for suggesting Pooja Nansi and Leong Liew Geok. Click here.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
I was at the NUS History Seminar yesterday, and they didn't mention Operation Spectrum Once.
I don't think Vincent Cheng was there, either. But I left during the Q&A, so who knows?
Anyway, there was some pretty interesting stuff from Assoc Profs Yong Mun Cheong, Loh Kah Seng and Huang Jianli (all Chinese dudes) about the scripting of national history. Cool bits included:
* the suggestion that we shift our view of Singapore's place in history from a colonisation-decolonisation-post-colonialism perspective to a view of the cycle of Indo-Chinese maritime centres: Srivijaya-Melayu-Temasek-Melaka-Johor/Riau-Singapore.
* the revelation of how the PAP uses the language of crisis for everything: describing kampungs as hotbeds of physical and moral disease and unemployed educated populations are armies. Essentially, they cry wolf.
* the fact that we have a 25-year limit on how long documents can be kept secret from historians and the public, but does the government respect this? Nooooooooo.
* the story of how Indonesia tried to script its national history in the Sukarno era by assembling 40 historians in a room and giving them a four-year deadline, which wasn't followed very well. The resulting books were burned in a bonfire as soon as the Suharto regime took over.
Full house, ya know? Controversy is good for attendance.
Anyway, there was some pretty interesting stuff from Assoc Profs Yong Mun Cheong, Loh Kah Seng and Huang Jianli (all Chinese dudes) about the scripting of national history. Cool bits included:
* the suggestion that we shift our view of Singapore's place in history from a colonisation-decolonisation-post-colonialism perspective to a view of the cycle of Indo-Chinese maritime centres: Srivijaya-Melayu-Temasek-Melaka-Johor/Riau-Singapore.
* the revelation of how the PAP uses the language of crisis for everything: describing kampungs as hotbeds of physical and moral disease and unemployed educated populations are armies. Essentially, they cry wolf.
* the fact that we have a 25-year limit on how long documents can be kept secret from historians and the public, but does the government respect this? Nooooooooo.
* the story of how Indonesia tried to script its national history in the Sukarno era by assembling 40 historians in a room and giving them a four-year deadline, which wasn't followed very well. The resulting books were burned in a bonfire as soon as the Suharto regime took over.
Full house, ya know? Controversy is good for attendance.
Friday, June 04, 2010
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
NUS History Seminar: Why has Mr Vincent Cheng been barred from speaking? (correspondence continues
I got a reply to my original complaint to the National Library Board. The important point is that it assures Vincent Cheng will be allowed to attend the seminar as part of the audience. Here's our correspondence:
Dear Yi-Sheng,
Thank you for your email to all the members of the NLB Board. We would like to take this opportunity to explain the context and background to the seminar that you had raised concerns.
The National Library is the venue sponsor for the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Singapore History seminar organised by the NUS History Society. NLB had supported this seminar due to its focus on the personalities, events and agenda that shaped the history of Singapore. This was in line with NLB's focus for its heritage programmes and exhibitions which explored the role of key movers in Singapore's growth from a fishing village into a modern nation.
NUS History Society (NUSHS) had indicated that Junior College and Upper Secondary students were the target audience and that academics would form the line-up of speakers. The initial line-up provided by the NUSHS for NLB's support were academics from the local tertiary institutions researching on these areas. The academic exploration that the seminar would pursue was also in line with NLB's programming objectives to seek insights into Singapore's history through research and study. The late inclusion of Mr Vincent Cheng, by the society was not consistent with the direction of the initial proposed line-up, of academics, by NUSHS.
As part of our partnership and sponsorship conditions with all our programme partners, the content and details of the programme such as the panel of speakers need to be in line with the intent of the event and jointly agreed upon. For this particular seminar, the programme details did not follow the intent of the seminar based on our initial discussions with NUSHS. The final line-up of speakers provided by NUSHS include Assoc Prof Yong Mun Cheong, Head of the History Department of NUS, Assoc Prof (Adjunct) Loh Kah Seng of NTU, Assoc Prof Huang Jianli with the History Department of NUS and Assoc Prof (Adjunct) Kwa Chong Guan with the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at NTU and the History Department of NUS. Based on this line-up, the National Library is still working with the NUSHS to hold this public seminar this Friday. Mr Vincent Cheng, like any member of the public, is welcome to attend.
Regards,
Amy Gay
Director, Communications
NLB
*
Dear Ms Gay,
Thank you for your reply. I'm glad that Vincent Cheng is welcome to attend as a member of the public, as I'd heard rumours that he would not even be allowed to be present in that capacity.
It remains my sincerest wish that Mr Cheng be allowed to speak as an official guest. However, on reading your reasons for Mr Cheng being excluded, namely that:
1. his inclusion was submitted late,
2. he did not thematically "fit in" with the panel of academics,
I believe it should be permissible for Mr Cheng to be excluded from a future event organised at the National Library, provided that the plans are submitted early and that his panel includes guests with similar backgrounds - e.g. charity workers, former detainees, or other people significant to Singapore's history.
Given the support for Mr Cheng, I fully expect such an event to be scheduled in the near future on your premises.
Yours sincerely,
Ng Yi-Sheng
*
Hi Yi-Sheng,
Thanks for your understanding and reply.
Best,
Dear Yi-Sheng,
Thank you for your email to all the members of the NLB Board. We would like to take this opportunity to explain the context and background to the seminar that you had raised concerns.
The National Library is the venue sponsor for the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Singapore History seminar organised by the NUS History Society. NLB had supported this seminar due to its focus on the personalities, events and agenda that shaped the history of Singapore. This was in line with NLB's focus for its heritage programmes and exhibitions which explored the role of key movers in Singapore's growth from a fishing village into a modern nation.
NUS History Society (NUSHS) had indicated that Junior College and Upper Secondary students were the target audience and that academics would form the line-up of speakers. The initial line-up provided by the NUSHS for NLB's support were academics from the local tertiary institutions researching on these areas. The academic exploration that the seminar would pursue was also in line with NLB's programming objectives to seek insights into Singapore's history through research and study. The late inclusion of Mr Vincent Cheng, by the society was not consistent with the direction of the initial proposed line-up, of academics, by NUSHS.
As part of our partnership and sponsorship conditions with all our programme partners, the content and details of the programme such as the panel of speakers need to be in line with the intent of the event and jointly agreed upon. For this particular seminar, the programme details did not follow the intent of the seminar based on our initial discussions with NUSHS. The final line-up of speakers provided by NUSHS include Assoc Prof Yong Mun Cheong, Head of the History Department of NUS, Assoc Prof (Adjunct) Loh Kah Seng of NTU, Assoc Prof Huang Jianli with the History Department of NUS and Assoc Prof (Adjunct) Kwa Chong Guan with the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at NTU and the History Department of NUS. Based on this line-up, the National Library is still working with the NUSHS to hold this public seminar this Friday. Mr Vincent Cheng, like any member of the public, is welcome to attend.
Regards,
Amy Gay
Director, Communications
NLB
*
Dear Ms Gay,
Thank you for your reply. I'm glad that Vincent Cheng is welcome to attend as a member of the public, as I'd heard rumours that he would not even be allowed to be present in that capacity.
It remains my sincerest wish that Mr Cheng be allowed to speak as an official guest. However, on reading your reasons for Mr Cheng being excluded, namely that:
1. his inclusion was submitted late,
2. he did not thematically "fit in" with the panel of academics,
I believe it should be permissible for Mr Cheng to be excluded from a future event organised at the National Library, provided that the plans are submitted early and that his panel includes guests with similar backgrounds - e.g. charity workers, former detainees, or other people significant to Singapore's history.
Given the support for Mr Cheng, I fully expect such an event to be scheduled in the near future on your premises.
Yours sincerely,
Ng Yi-Sheng
*
Hi Yi-Sheng,
Thanks for your understanding and reply.
Best,
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Texts May 2010
A lot of graphic texts this month and not much non-fiction. (Effects of my New York Amazon grab.)
*POETRY*
+Cathy Park Hong’s “Dance Dance Revolution”
+Dorothy Porter’s “The Monkey’s Mask”
*FICTION*
Christine Suchen Lim’s “Rice Bowl”
=Isa Kamari’s “Nadra”
+“The Best of Singapore Erotica”
+HG Wells's "The First Men in the Moon"
+Ayu Utami’s “Saman”
*DRAMA*
+Haresh Sharma’s “Trilogy”
=Robert David MacDonald’s “The Ice House”
*NON-FICTION*
+Naldo Rei’s “"Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor"
*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
=R Sikoryak's “Masterpiece Comics”
+James Gurney’s “Dinotopia” and “The World Beneath”
Lucy Knisley’s =“French Milk” and +“Radiator Days”
= Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie's “Aya of Yop City”
+Larry Gonick's “The Cartoon History of the Modern World Vol 2”
=Michael Kupperman's “Tales Designed to Thrizzle! Volume One”
*HARD TO CLASSIFY*
+Robert Bly's “Iron John: A Book About Men”
*FILMS*
+Ayan Mukerji's “Wake Up Sid!”
+Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight”
+Dong-hun Choi's “Woochi”
=Shawn Levy's “Date Night”
most of =Billie Woodruff's “Honey”
*PERFORMANCES*
+SITI Company’s “Bobrauschenbergamerica”
+“Next to Normal” (on Broadway)
=Pentas Project’s “The Lost and the Ecliptic”
+Rimini Protokoll's "Cargo"
+The Mango Dollies' "Live and Unplucked"
+faifai's "Y O'Clock"
+The Necessary Stage's "Those Who Can't, Teach"
+Elevator Repair Service's "Gatz"
Haris Pasovic's "Football, Football"
+Emmanuele Phuon and Amrita Performing Arts's "Khmeropedies II"
Peter Brook and Theatre des Bouffes du Nord's "11 and 12"
+Pichet Klunchun Dance Company's "Nijinsky Siam"
+Toy Factory's "Maha Moggallana"
+Tim Crouch's "I, Malvolio"
+T.H.E. Dance Company's "O Sounds"
+Buds Theatre Company's "Colder Than Here"
+Jeremiah Choy's "Emily of Emerald Hill" (rehearsal)
*EXHIBITIONS*
=Khalil Chishtee's "Dreaming of Dreaming"
+Danny Yung's "Tian Tian Xiang Shang"
+Compagnie Carabosse's "Invitation to Dream: A Fire Garden Installation"
=Ming Wong's "Life Of Imitation"
+The National Art Gallery, Singapore and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea's "Realism in Asian Art"
+The Esplanade's "Making History: How Southeast Asian Art reconquers the past to conjure the future"
+Era Dance Theatre Unlimited, Yayasan Warisan Johor and Langkan Budaya Taratak's "Zapin d'Muara"
*POETRY*
+Cathy Park Hong’s “Dance Dance Revolution”
+Dorothy Porter’s “The Monkey’s Mask”
*FICTION*
Christine Suchen Lim’s “Rice Bowl”
=Isa Kamari’s “Nadra”
+“The Best of Singapore Erotica”
+HG Wells's "The First Men in the Moon"
+Ayu Utami’s “Saman”
*DRAMA*
+Haresh Sharma’s “Trilogy”
=Robert David MacDonald’s “The Ice House”
*NON-FICTION*
+Naldo Rei’s “"Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor"
*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
=R Sikoryak's “Masterpiece Comics”
+James Gurney’s “Dinotopia” and “The World Beneath”
Lucy Knisley’s =“French Milk” and +“Radiator Days”
= Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie's “Aya of Yop City”
+Larry Gonick's “The Cartoon History of the Modern World Vol 2”
=Michael Kupperman's “Tales Designed to Thrizzle! Volume One”
*HARD TO CLASSIFY*
+Robert Bly's “Iron John: A Book About Men”
*FILMS*
+Ayan Mukerji's “Wake Up Sid!”
+Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight”
+Dong-hun Choi's “Woochi”
=Shawn Levy's “Date Night”
most of =Billie Woodruff's “Honey”
*PERFORMANCES*
+SITI Company’s “Bobrauschenbergamerica”
+“Next to Normal” (on Broadway)
=Pentas Project’s “The Lost and the Ecliptic”
+Rimini Protokoll's "Cargo"
+The Mango Dollies' "Live and Unplucked"
+faifai's "Y O'Clock"
+The Necessary Stage's "Those Who Can't, Teach"
+Elevator Repair Service's "Gatz"
Haris Pasovic's "Football, Football"
+Emmanuele Phuon and Amrita Performing Arts's "Khmeropedies II"
Peter Brook and Theatre des Bouffes du Nord's "11 and 12"
+Pichet Klunchun Dance Company's "Nijinsky Siam"
+Toy Factory's "Maha Moggallana"
+Tim Crouch's "I, Malvolio"
+T.H.E. Dance Company's "O Sounds"
+Buds Theatre Company's "Colder Than Here"
+Jeremiah Choy's "Emily of Emerald Hill" (rehearsal)
*EXHIBITIONS*
=Khalil Chishtee's "Dreaming of Dreaming"
+Danny Yung's "Tian Tian Xiang Shang"
+Compagnie Carabosse's "Invitation to Dream: A Fire Garden Installation"
=Ming Wong's "Life Of Imitation"
+The National Art Gallery, Singapore and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea's "Realism in Asian Art"
+The Esplanade's "Making History: How Southeast Asian Art reconquers the past to conjure the future"
+Era Dance Theatre Unlimited, Yayasan Warisan Johor and Langkan Budaya Taratak's "Zapin d'Muara"
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