7 years ago, i wrote:

wow! i think i can safely say i've seen much of the world now, more than most people do anyway.. although the more i see, the less i see. for the earth is just too big and you cannot never say you've been to a place and know it unless you have been living there for maybe a good 10 years and experience all its seasons, flavours, trials and tribulations..

i am just grateful to have the privilege of experiencing what i have, the adrenalin sky-highs, the end-of-the-world lows, and still come home in 1 piece to live again for yet another trip.. although i may be less-inclined to backbreaking stuff nowadays haha..

i have also learned to appreciate home.. the place called Singapore that we Singaporeans love to complain about (incidentally there are not many of us left nowadays with all the foreign talent ;p) but this is home. where my family and most of my friends (still) are, and the food of course. a place where i find it weird to take photos as it is just too darn familiar. but if people are flooding here, there must be something good about it.

at this point, i am almost tempted to break into a chest-thumping Majullah Singapura.. ahem, maybe not. i still do hate our hot humid weather, and let's not start on the.. oops, it just comes so naturally ;p

this is my webpage. i never did get into this blogging thingee although people are calling my webpage that. so maybe i better start pretending to keep up with the times. and i will endeavour to improve my sterling record of 1 blog posting every 7 years..

besides photography which helps me to remember the images of my travels, the one creative outlet that really allows me to vent my feelings is art. it sounds cliche but i had vague thoughts of being an artist as a kid. i also knew it would freak my parents out big-time haha.. anyway that was that. so now that i have done my dues earning my keep the conventional way, it is time to go back to my (drama pause) true artistic roots..

but seriously, art is fun. the story my friends like to tell me about why they can't draw goes that some stupid art teacher in their primary school gave them a D and sentenced them permanently to the Can't Draw to Save Their Lives group. i say shoot the artless teacher.

anybody can draw. in fact, the beautiful thing about art is nobody can with 100% certainty pronounce your work to be lousy; you are just misunderstood. like van gogh who only sold 1 painting in his life. at least that's what i tell myself. and man, it's so cool to be called a painter ;p

so here it is, ladies and gentlemen, my art page: . and my lofty artistic ambition is to go 1 better than van gogh ;p

once upon a time, there was a group of idealistic music-makers called

Intersection Music Lab. yes, we were the (unknowns) of xinyao (local Singapore compositions movement) which is incidentally enjoying a renaissance of sorts today with all the run-of-the-mill stinging, i mean singing, competitions.

luckily we were ahead of our times and didn't have to subject ourselves to the sadistic survivor-style yet strangely-popular music contests of today's world where the once-almighty record companies are falling like bowling pins (when will they ever learn?)

Life's Punctuation (new)
Watch Out Before You Use That Zebra Crossing
The Cinema Strikes Back !
Confessions of a 30-Year-Old-To-Be, Come Y2K
Free Orchestra Music, Anyone ?
Singapore "Myths"
"...Read your article. Love it. 100% agree to your points..."
Of Shooting Condors and Red Snow
"...Keep writing. I enjoy your light-hearted musings alot!"

afternote: ironically, pretensions finally led to the real thing, or rather, i've found a less tedious way to publish my doodlings without the aesthetic bells and whistles, and perhaps.. ahem.. improve my posting rate, so tada! introducing my musings blog ;p