Moments

Two photos that was chosen for the exhibition.


Bikers' dream : A closet affair with Mr Davidson.

I was taking pictures of esplanade, searching high and low for PDA shots. When i heard this loud roaring noise coming towards me. Oh wee! Harleys... I get excited when i heard roaring noise from hot vehicles. Anyways i took alot of photos of the harley gang. I think it is appropriate for the theme. You can see that there are really passionate over their hot wheels harley, imagine 20plus or even more harleys at a traffic light. Some may call them show off but harley is really expensive so i believe they are allowed to do so. They are like an interest group like the ones we have in school, coming together regardless of all walks of life to enjoy the moment with their harley and friends. Something you dont see everyday.
Check this guy out!

This is what i call passion


Arc of friendship: Lonely people build walls. We build bridges!

This picture was taken at vivocity. The kids from a certain primary school was there doing some "getting to know" vivocity kind of thing. There were 2 guides with 30kids? I think. The boy on the left was actually kind of stuck and he couldnt get down, so his friend (right boy) help him out. It reminds me of childhood days, when your friend will always be there beside you, go canteen together, queue up for food together, play catching together... But as we grow older, it seems that we are more competitive and sometimes selfish towards each other. It depicts the theme as it shows the moment the two boys share together, being a good friend.

I have a more photos for the theme in my flickr photostream.

After the struggle we had to come up with the right theme, it really felt good to finalize everything. I think my group's theme have something close to everyone's heart. It allow us to review ourselves and enjoy the little things in life that bring wonders in one's life, which we often neglect it while we chase for whats ahead.

Singapore culture

I have been thinking what is specifically one culture that truly is singaporean, well it is hard to pin point.

Like everyone have said it before, the food culture. But i think every coutry will have their own food culture. For example, France, its wine culture i would say. When there is good food, there will be people.

I would say the one thing that struck my mind is the workaholic culture and the competitiveness. If you are not working obviously you cant stay in singapore. Alright same applies to everywhere else right? But you see have you ever see homeless people in singapore on the street. For me, i never. And how about those pasar malam you often see smack in the middle of the road especially at our neighbouring country. Our pasar malam is neatly lined along our pavements, usually on weekends. Even that, singaporeans do complaint that it obstruct passage way for others.

In my opinion, the government's idea of wanting to be the first in everything (only good and respectable activities apply) has been superimposed onto the citizens. You can see it everyday, people rushing into MRT and crowd around the entrance even before the passengers could alight. Hmmm seems like we really need to revive the courtesy campaign. Talking about campaigns, why was it effective in the 80s? I think they should try it out again but i need now the campaigns are just monetary "benefits". If you know what i mean.

Furthermore, there was a report recently about singapore being more separated than otherwise. You know, the issue of being multi-racial, multi-cultural stuff like that. The idea however i think was not practiced. I think everyone in singapore knows that the multi-racial idea is not working. So i guess they should just stop doing those superficial tv ads about that and do something that really will wake everyone up.

Ok how about the recent topic about taxis disappearing, only to reappear when there is extra charges especially after midnight. And someone will purposely walk ahead of you, who have been waiting for your taxi for ages, just to get the next taxi. See? The competitiveness + selfishness culture is back again.

I guess to truly see and capture singapore culture is to first explore the world. When we open our minds and see whats there on every part of the earth, then we can notice the "uniquely" singapore that we are so proud of.