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My questions, asked by htenywg :
1) What's the best thing you've bought recently, that you were supremely chuffed with?
2) What's your favourite place to hang out in, anywhere in the world?
3) What's the next thing you want to make or do, artistically?
4) What's your greatest wish for Singapore?
5) If you could go back or forward in time to live in any time period you wished, whence would you go?
1) What's the best thing you've bought recently, that you were supremely chuffed with?
hmm i'm going to answer with the first thing that cropped up in my mind because i think that would be most appropriate. the best things i bought not-so-recently-but-qualifies are my sheep wool slippers and a fleece blanket. both of these purchases were in berlin while it was still cold and foreign. i bought the former at mauerpark flohmarkt, which was this huge flea market that i eventually returned to time and again. they were really comfy and made me feel happy flouncing around in my apartment (and practical because then i didn't have to transit abruptly into the carpetless kitchen area and feel it being sticky/whatever lol!). the fleece blanket was just magical and made my bed 10x more fun. ^^
2) What's your favourite place to hang out in, anywhere in the world?
during our last days in berlin, my friend abby and i went to teufelsberg, which is a man-made mountain supposedly built on ww2 rubble. the americans built a listening tower on the top of it to spy on the russians during the cold war when they realised that they could pick up fantastic signal from there. the trek to the top was full of all that delightful naturey stuff - you know, sweet, clean air and trees and stuff - and the tower itself was such a treasure hunt. it was full of graffiti and broken glass and an overwhelming sense of space - something that i've missed/never had in new york/singapore. we climbed to the very top and there was the dome where sound just bounced off the walls. everything felt so strange, like it was real and gritty but that you knew that how you were going to remember this place was already implicit in your experience of the place itself. we sang a little and laughed a lot. i guess it isn't a -real- 'place to hang out in' but if i could i would have a door to it always, to hang out in.
3) What's the next thing you want to make or do, artistically?
i really want to do some collaborative work sometime, but i don't think i've found the right people to do it with yet. i really believe that there's something to be done there, get a bunch of crazy awesome people and something crazy awesome will be made. but maybe this isn't the right time, so i'm waiting until it feels right. on the personal front, well, i've been playing with the idea of mixed media (fabric-centred) pieces ever since my final project in berlin, but i stupidly abandoned my excess cloth in berlin so now i have to find cloth in singapore. and ever always, book-making is in the corner of my mind. i feel as if i am always habouring possibilities but hardly ever realising them. sometimes i think i'm pissing my life away.
4) What's your greatest wish for Singapore?
my wish for singapore would be for its people to grow up and be mature and interested. i think that a lot of us spend a shit-ton of years being persuaded to do the pragmatic thing, or learning to think the right way. it gets confusing because when our own desires well up we've learnt to suppress them, or we don't even know how to identify them. and then even if we do, what is the next step forward? our national culture seems very rigid and responses to anything is like kinda 'no'-based, because it's easier to say no than yes. i feel like i've internalised some of this to an unhealthy degree... so maybe it's just me projecting outward lol. but yeah. it would be great if people were more interested in things and felt more empowered to think that yes, it might actually be possible for them to do that with their lives.
5) If you could go back or forward in time to live in any time period you wished, whence would you go?
DINOSAURS. would scare the shit out of me but i want to see some. also i will bring caving gear and go caving. :D
Comment with "lolwhut"
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
My questions, asked by htenywg :
1) What's the best thing you've bought recently, that you were supremely chuffed with?
2) What's your favourite place to hang out in, anywhere in the world?
3) What's the next thing you want to make or do, artistically?
4) What's your greatest wish for Singapore?
5) If you could go back or forward in time to live in any time period you wished, whence would you go?
1) What's the best thing you've bought recently, that you were supremely chuffed with?
hmm i'm going to answer with the first thing that cropped up in my mind because i think that would be most appropriate. the best things i bought not-so-recently-but-qualifies are my sheep wool slippers and a fleece blanket. both of these purchases were in berlin while it was still cold and foreign. i bought the former at mauerpark flohmarkt, which was this huge flea market that i eventually returned to time and again. they were really comfy and made me feel happy flouncing around in my apartment (and practical because then i didn't have to transit abruptly into the carpetless kitchen area and feel it being sticky/whatever lol!). the fleece blanket was just magical and made my bed 10x more fun. ^^
2) What's your favourite place to hang out in, anywhere in the world?
during our last days in berlin, my friend abby and i went to teufelsberg, which is a man-made mountain supposedly built on ww2 rubble. the americans built a listening tower on the top of it to spy on the russians during the cold war when they realised that they could pick up fantastic signal from there. the trek to the top was full of all that delightful naturey stuff - you know, sweet, clean air and trees and stuff - and the tower itself was such a treasure hunt. it was full of graffiti and broken glass and an overwhelming sense of space - something that i've missed/never had in new york/singapore. we climbed to the very top and there was the dome where sound just bounced off the walls. everything felt so strange, like it was real and gritty but that you knew that how you were going to remember this place was already implicit in your experience of the place itself. we sang a little and laughed a lot. i guess it isn't a -real- 'place to hang out in' but if i could i would have a door to it always, to hang out in.
3) What's the next thing you want to make or do, artistically?
i really want to do some collaborative work sometime, but i don't think i've found the right people to do it with yet. i really believe that there's something to be done there, get a bunch of crazy awesome people and something crazy awesome will be made. but maybe this isn't the right time, so i'm waiting until it feels right. on the personal front, well, i've been playing with the idea of mixed media (fabric-centred) pieces ever since my final project in berlin, but i stupidly abandoned my excess cloth in berlin so now i have to find cloth in singapore. and ever always, book-making is in the corner of my mind. i feel as if i am always habouring possibilities but hardly ever realising them. sometimes i think i'm pissing my life away.
4) What's your greatest wish for Singapore?
my wish for singapore would be for its people to grow up and be mature and interested. i think that a lot of us spend a shit-ton of years being persuaded to do the pragmatic thing, or learning to think the right way. it gets confusing because when our own desires well up we've learnt to suppress them, or we don't even know how to identify them. and then even if we do, what is the next step forward? our national culture seems very rigid and responses to anything is like kinda 'no'-based, because it's easier to say no than yes. i feel like i've internalised some of this to an unhealthy degree... so maybe it's just me projecting outward lol. but yeah. it would be great if people were more interested in things and felt more empowered to think that yes, it might actually be possible for them to do that with their lives.
5) If you could go back or forward in time to live in any time period you wished, whence would you go?
DINOSAURS. would scare the shit out of me but i want to see some. also i will bring caving gear and go caving. :D