Singapore Airshow 2012

Singapore Airshow 2012

Singapore Airshow 2012

Siglap: Suburban Hell 2

Bland, gloomy and depressive.

Endless streets, all looking the same.

Siglap: Suburban Hell

Suburban sprawl at its worst.

Siglap, suburban hell.

I shall observe. I will let it go.

No comment on that short rotund hobbit from hell. Her ugly personality says as much.

A fence-sitting, Machiavellian person

Of course, there is that fat fence-sitting person, Machiavellian and positioning himself, waiting to put himself in a leadership position. Heh. Let's see if his machinations can get him anywhere.

Sucking up

One guy who always pretended to be Mister Nice Guy but is always sucking up to the leaders is now revealed in his full glory. Bootlicker extraordinaire. And he also runs a local art organisation, doing all the lap work.. That's when he started carrying the burning torch with a touch of name-calling. Wonderful.

The reactions

The reactions of this local art movement is almost like a form of a Singapore Taliban.

Of the propensity for Groupthink

You are probably wondering about the society which I live in. Well, there is a propensity often for groupthink and lynch mobs even in something that you would imagine would be very liberal as in an art society of sorts.

Would this change ever?

Quoting from a friend:

"You can't do it easily is his point. The process of changing one's belief is gradual and requires someone to be the introspective sort (not sure how you describe that sort of personality). So what one does should be to help the process not push the person further to the other side. That's why crabtree talks about reframing issues and changing behaviours which would in turn help make a person question his or her own usual consistent outlook."

Fouridine Ang

It is hard to say, there must be a will for change.

Of lynch mobs and cronies

As Teck Loong had expressed, ' I think it's more of a failure by the group to accept differing opinions, rather than SC's personal view.'

Thus, the Dear Leader's cronies all started barking. Bow wow wow. An inability to accept other views.

Some people have just expressed their true colours. I would forgive them if I see apologies coming however, I don't think they are big men (or some being short, stumpy with an ugly personality to boot, big people). Good to see people exposed that way sometimes.

It was described that there were two sides? It was more like everyone taking ganging up and attacking one guy. 10:1 ratio or something. No, I don't yield to these kind of people, instead, I expect apologies.

Now, of course, some are going to brush it off and carry on as if nothing has happened.

Of Siglap and Singapore's suburban hell and other matters

It is astounding how some people leapt up to defend their Dear Leader when I described Siglap as our very own suburban hell. This lynch mob then proceeded with personal attacks and more, being blinded by their hatred. It would seem that the groupthink in this community prevades so much that the people would be unable to discern anything else.

Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!

Of a modern interpretation of Sherlock Holmes

'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'

I finally watched The Hounds of Baskerville and it was compelling, very compelling. If you have not watched the BBC production of Sherlock, I recommend it.

The programmes in the Sherlock series have cleverly referenced the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and set them in a modern setting. Baskerville is now a secret military research facility with supposedly monstrous creations, the dogs of war...

Sherlock Holmes would be embracing the trappings of modern society with his mobile, accessing the internet while Dr. John Watson, an Afghanistan war veteran, would maintain a blog, all very fitting and hilarious. A tonic for our times.

Mediacorp

Someone representing Mediacorp just called to ask if they can use the warehouse where I work at for filming. I told her, 'no'. That ended the call.

Sherlock

The new BBC TV series, Sherlock, has been most engaging. For once, you get programmes that do not insult the intelligence of the audience.

The death of Google+

I am wondering when Google+ will die off. It had secured some numbers but are the people on it really using it? Somehow, I doubt so. There is little reason to leave Facebook for Google+, another large faceless corporation.

Meanwhile, Google will come up with yet another iteration to attempt to beat Facebook.

The dogmatic artists

The world is full of dogmatic and narrow-minded folks. For instance, in the urban sketching group, there will be those who cannot accept that people sketch outside of urban sketching too and these narrow types will want them others to adhere to the so-called manifesto.

People don different hats at different situations to draw and paint. People have their own reasons for drawing and painting. If you were to be different from them, you will be labelled as 'extreme'.

You would think that an art community would be full of open-minded and liberal types. However, I find it full of conservatives and the narrow-minded.