Comments for s/pores http://s-pores.com new directions in singapore studies Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:41:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Review: 100 Greatest: Singapore 60s by Joseph Clement Pereira http://s-pores.com/2009/06/100-greatest/#comment-3797 Joseph Clement Pereira Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:41:09 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=223#comment-3797 Dear Joseph, Just to let you and your readership know, my book on Singapore Sixties Part One was released in November 2011 by Select Books. The title is Apache Over Singapore. It is available at Select, Kinokuniya, Times and other bookshops. This book covers the bands and singers that emerged between 1960 and 1965. There will be a second book which will cover the years 1966 to 1970. Regards. Joseph.C.Pereira Dear Joseph,

Just to let you and your readership know, my book on Singapore Sixties Part One was released in November 2011 by Select Books. The title is Apache Over Singapore. It is available at Select, Kinokuniya, Times and other bookshops. This book covers the bands and singers that emerged between 1960 and 1965. There will be a second book which will cover the years 1966 to 1970.

Regards.

Joseph.C.Pereira

]]> Comment on A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar by Ct http://s-pores.com/2007/04/fajar/#comment-3738 Ct Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:43:22 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=20#comment-3738 If you are a NUS student, you can try asking Mr Tim Yap Fun at the Central Library for help. There could be a change in status for the holdings of Fajar in the SMC collection. What is your research interest or are you doing a paper on this? All the best. If you are a NUS student, you can try asking Mr Tim Yap Fun at the Central Library for help. There could be a change in status for the holdings of Fajar in the SMC collection. What is your research interest or are you doing a paper on this? All the best.

]]> Comment on A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar by Shirley Ng http://s-pores.com/2007/04/fajar/#comment-3568 Shirley Ng Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:59:19 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=20#comment-3568 Thanks for your reply. Yes. I already go to the Central Library on yesterday, but can't found it. NUS Linc also can't search for the Fajar. Will it close up? Thanks for your reply.
Yes. I already go to the Central Library on yesterday, but can’t found it. NUS Linc also can’t search for the Fajar. Will it close up?

]]> Comment on Reminiscences on a HDB Point Block by chyanne http://s-pores.com/2009/07/hdbblock/#comment-3554 chyanne Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:50:32 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=341#comment-3554 tks for this article, brings me down memory lane as i used to play in my granny's house, a 5 room point blk in amk when i was in primary school. i love it and thought it was big and prestigious that time ( i am in my mid 30s). tks for this article, brings me down memory lane as i used to play in my granny’s house, a 5 room point blk in amk when i was in primary school. i love it and thought it was big and prestigious that time ( i am in my mid 30s).

]]> Comment on A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar by ct http://s-pores.com/2007/04/fajar/#comment-3548 ct Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:33:36 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=20#comment-3548 You mean old issues of Fajar? Try the Central Library of NUS. You mean old issues of Fajar? Try the Central Library of NUS.

]]> Comment on A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar by Shirley http://s-pores.com/2007/04/fajar/#comment-3519 Shirley Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:24:57 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=20#comment-3519 Dear Lim Cheng Tju, May I know which library that you find from the National University of Singapore? Central Library? I hope to hear you soon. Ragards, Shirley Ng Dear Lim Cheng Tju,

May I know which library that you find from the National University of Singapore? Central Library?

I hope to hear you soon.

Ragards,
Shirley Ng

]]> Comment on The Seventies: Transition from Cultural Desert to Global City by ct http://s-pores.com/2011/06/the-seventies/#comment-3478 ct Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:04:14 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=1197#comment-3478 If the turning point was 1978/79, did the arrival of Dr Goh Keng Swee at MOE and the release of the Goh Report (which introduced streaming) during that same period have an impact on the cultural scene back then? If the turning point was 1978/79, did the arrival of Dr Goh Keng Swee at MOE and the release of the Goh Report (which introduced streaming) during that same period have an impact on the cultural scene back then?

]]> Comment on Announcements by fahcheong http://s-pores.com/notices/#comment-3464 fahcheong Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:32:02 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?page_id=750#comment-3464 As the s/pores e-journal uses my First Generation sculpture as its emblem picture, I thought I could be bold and request that the forum post my open invitation to the cultural, social and concerned community of Singaporeans and others interested in Singapore to view my latest works. I am not a writer, so I am not submitting an article to s/pores. But I am a sculptor, and my social and artistic commentary upon many social issues is both visual and tactile. Please come to Emily Hill if you are interested in what I have to say and view my sculpture exhibition entitled Passages. The exhibition is open from 11 - 7.30, Monday to Saturday, from Nov 18 - 26, 2011. By the way, I am very pleased that s/pores has decided to use First Generation in this emblematic way. Thank you. As the s/pores e-journal uses my First Generation sculpture as its emblem picture, I thought I could be bold and request that the forum post my open invitation to the cultural, social and concerned community of Singaporeans and others interested in Singapore to view my latest works. I am not a writer, so I am not submitting an article to s/pores. But I am a sculptor, and my social and artistic commentary upon many social issues is both visual and tactile. Please come to Emily Hill if you are interested in what I have to say and view my sculpture exhibition entitled Passages. The exhibition is open from 11 – 7.30, Monday to Saturday, from Nov 18 – 26, 2011. By the way, I am very pleased that s/pores has decided to use First Generation in this emblematic way. Thank you.

]]> Comment on Interview with Corinna Lim by passerby http://s-pores.com/2011/09/corinna/#comment-2643 passerby Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:30:53 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=1347#comment-2643 Interesting interview! I feel really sorry for the women who get trapped in unhappy marriages. It would be awesome if more research could be done into the plight of Singaporean women in marriages. It's worrisome that most of my peers believe that gender equality has been achieved already, or worse, that men in Singapore really have it bad. Seeing that it is so easy to default on child maintenance payments, it's clear that divorce isn't really a bed of roses for Singaporean women as many like to claim. Interesting interview!

I feel really sorry for the women who get trapped in unhappy marriages. It would be awesome if more research could be done into the plight of Singaporean women in marriages. It’s worrisome that most of my peers believe that gender equality has been achieved already, or worse, that men in Singapore really have it bad. Seeing that it is so easy to default on child maintenance payments, it’s clear that divorce isn’t really a bed of roses for Singaporean women as many like to claim.

]]> Comment on From People’s Action Party to Men in White by soong see choo http://s-pores.com/2010/08/frompap-to-miw/#comment-2580 soong see choo Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:22:38 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=978#comment-2580 That's one of the central problems of history ...The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us. Control mystery keeps you turning the pages, but it is the mutability of memory and what this means for evaluating one's personal history - time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent - that really occupy this slim volume. That’s one of the central problems of history …The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.
Control mystery keeps you turning the pages, but it is the mutability of memory and what this means for evaluating one’s personal history – time doesn’t act as a fixative, rather as a solvent – that really occupy this slim volume.

]]> Comment on Once Bonded by Ong Jiin Joo : Release myself http://s-pores.com/2009/07/once-bonded/#comment-2572 Ong Jiin Joo : Release myself Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:13:47 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=308#comment-2572 [...] recall reading Yu-Mei Balasingamchow’s blog post Once Bonded, published on my birthday 2 years back. Hers was $264,000. Mine was $484,000, which was later [...] [...] recall reading Yu-Mei Balasingamchow’s blog post Once Bonded, published on my birthday 2 years back. Hers was $264,000. Mine was $484,000, which was later [...]

]]> Comment on Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else by Sha Najak http://s-pores.com/2011/06/theatre-and-its-publics/#comment-2256 Sha Najak Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:16:27 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=1171#comment-2256 i find this gallavanting-beat around the bush sort of style from stat boards really annoying. not wanting to take the bull by its horns, we're adopting this manufacturing mentality of just producing things without attaching any emotions to our acts. it's only NOW that the new education minister wants to introduce social, emotional learning in schools when they should have done it a long time ago. and when we produce undergraduates, we don't have enough jobs to place them in. it's only after we do something over and over again without stopping to think of its outcome that we come to a point of realising we've been wasting our time all along. same thing with culture, it's just seen as entertainment, scrapping the surface, spineless acts of consumption and when one does it in abundance, you say they're decadent and watching too much plays that is only for the priviledged. i find this gallavanting-beat around the bush sort of style from stat boards really annoying. not wanting to take the bull by its horns, we’re adopting this manufacturing mentality of just producing things without attaching any emotions to our acts. it’s only NOW that the new education minister wants to introduce social, emotional learning in schools when they should have done it a long time ago. and when we produce undergraduates, we don’t have enough jobs to place them in. it’s only after we do something over and over again without stopping to think of its outcome that we come to a point of realising we’ve been wasting our time all along. same thing with culture, it’s just seen as entertainment, scrapping the surface, spineless acts of consumption and when one does it in abundance, you say they’re decadent and watching too much plays that is only for the priviledged.

]]> Comment on Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else by s/pores http://s-pores.com/2011/06/theatre-and-its-publics/#comment-2066 s/pores Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:05:50 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=1171#comment-2066 Thanks jusdeananas for allowing us to use the photograph and to link it to your article and blog! Thanks jusdeananas for allowing us to use the photograph and to link it to your article and blog!

]]> Comment on Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case by Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case « Gweek Culture: World of Terrifying Secret Opinions http://s-pores.com/2011/06/learning-to-adapt/#comment-2065 Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case « Gweek Culture: World of Terrifying Secret Opinions Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:57:31 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=1142#comment-2065 [...] review of Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case appeared in S/PORES, Volume 9 [...] [...] review of Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case appeared in S/PORES, Volume 9 [...]

]]> Comment on Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else by jusdeananas http://s-pores.com/2011/06/theatre-and-its-publics/#comment-2064 jusdeananas Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:14:13 +0000 http://s-pores.com/?p=1171#comment-2064 Hello. Enjoyed reading your article. I notice that you've used one of my pictures of Simon Fujiwara's "Welcome to the Hotel Munber" in the piece. That's absolutely no problem at all, but I'd prefer it if you could link to my blog in a clearly stated attribution, rather than embedding an invisible hyperlink in the jpg image. Thanks. Hello. Enjoyed reading your article. I notice that you’ve used one of my pictures of Simon Fujiwara’s “Welcome to the Hotel Munber” in the piece. That’s absolutely no problem at all, but I’d prefer it if you could link to my blog in a clearly stated attribution, rather than embedding an invisible hyperlink in the jpg image. Thanks.

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