where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Friday, February 16, 2007

I am a latte-sipping human geographer. And lovin' it if I may add.

Seriously, as much as I complain about the work I am doing, I love what I am studying right down to the very core, which I feel is an outright privilege. I mean, how many people actually truly love what they study in college?

Any oh how, here are two photos I really liked while I was in Chinatown for a fieldtrip a few weeks back.
chinatown fieldtrip

The snapshot on the left really caught my eye as the juxtaposition was uncanny, especially the tapering tip of both structures, which really serves to bring out the old and the new, the religious and the secular. Add in the chinese lanterns and you get a perfect slice of Singapore. (Note that even the lantern and the street lamp are juxtaposed.) I'm usually wary about this juxtaposing theme cos I feel it is overused and overrated but this photo really does enough justice to that theme.

The photo on the right is just simply pretty. Perfect skies and shophouses busking in the sun.

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Well well, some of the perks of this field of study.

Yesterday, my project group went down to the Somerset skate park for fieldwork and man it was an eye-opener for me. Contrary to popular belief, the skateboarders were really approachable and helpful in giving time for our interviews and survey. They did have a thing or two against the government though. Think about it: the skate park, built by the state, serves to liberate the needs of the skaters, yet it oppresses them by containing their mobility by dictating where they can and more importantly, cannot skate. Ironical isn't it?

As one skater aptly puts it when asked if he was happy with the skate park, he said, "Lets say you're the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger but they make you wear a S-sized t-shirt."

Now, that's a priceless statement.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 4:44 PM

3 comments

3 Comments:

At 10:31 PM, JacY said...: i like the juxtapose picture!:).. u have art in your blood buddy, thanks for the help with the slides, haha
At 6:16 AM, Anonymous said...: "Art in my blood" sounds damn cool man, and it almost rhymes!

I've got art in my blood baby!

ym
At 4:08 AM, Anonymous said...: the photo on the right totally smacks of the pukiism style of photography (which you once dismissed lor).