Mobile phones are such an integral part of Asian (well, East Asian) life that now, even love seems to be regularly transmitted through the airwaves. This fixation on romance via technology, which I find interesting to say the least, is manifested in the two songs showcased below. Both are personal favourites - well, I am [...]
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Avril Lavigne - When You’re Gone [LIVE @ AOL Music Sessions]
Who would’ve thought? Singing live was never her forte - I guess she put in quite a bit of practice for this one.
I quite like the song, too. Her slower songs are generally far superior to her faster tracks.
I recently watched Babel, and, yes, I agree with popular opinion that it, along with Pan’s Labyrinth, among a few other films that I haven’t yet caught, constitute the best movies released last year.
Babel is not unique in the epic scale of its interlocking, intertwining narratives of different lives - the brilliant Crash immediately springs [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed the post titularly-named hour-long session at the Esplanade with Sebastian Tan of Broadway Beng fame. This guy can sing.
He executed his varied repertoire (comprising songs from plays, English and Mandarin classics, karaoke favourites, and some Hokkien pieces I’ve never heard) with considerable skill and wit, delightfully flaunting his versatility as a vocalist [...]
Sketch Swap is a relatively new website which has but one simple purpose: tellingly, to allow people to swap sketches. There isn’t much in the way of features, comprising only one big blank canvas, a pen tool with a fixed size, and a submit button.
The whole process of swapping sketches itself is easy enough, almost [...]
I went to the Singapore Arts House yesterday to check out their LOMOgraphy exhibition. LOMOgraphs are, in essence, random photographs shot with a LOMO-branded camera, which are novelty/toy cameras that come attached to a very specific, yet enticing philosophy of randomness. I’m totally digging it. Capturing life is what photography is for.
However I wish the [...]
Jun and I, we arrived on the scene, where the scene kids were. But prior to our appearance at the arena where careless cigarette smoke engulfed everyone - cruelly permeating virgin lungs such as ours - there was waiting (on my part).
And there was art.
However such minor distractions did not manage to hold our attention [...]
