July 2004
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Singapore, a great big theme park
I find Singapore similar to a theme park. The path you walk is designated, not allowing you to deviate. The activities are well contained in specified spaces and places. The “system” are laid down for the people “to ride on…
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Democratic Architecture?
Great architects are not democratic, they’re authoritarian. They exert themselves in a such insensitive way to their surrounding Perhaps that’s why Chandigarh failed, Brasilia failed, and Koolhaas’s Seattle Public Library also doesn’t do very well. Not to forget the EMP…
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gettin jiggy
i think nobody wants to get jiggy tonight but us.
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Dead baby bird
Yesterday morning i saw three baby birds lying dead on the grassy ground near jurong east mrt station. They were very young, the feathers haven’t even grown. Apparently they fell from their nest, which was built at the edge of…
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Blackout 29 June 04
I am so disappointed by the way the the local media described the cause of the 29 june blackout. A short sentence that continously run in ChannelNewsAsia titlebar said: “Blackout in most area caused by disrupted gas supply from Indonesia”.…