Relentlessly Superior.

Sunday, January 30, 2011
[6:31 PM]

On a lighter note (or maybe not), news and current affairs just keep on surprising me. I'm not going to talk much about 'our big minister' and the untactful things he had said which has been causing much distraught, tension and unhappiness within our community. People been asking me, what's my respond to it. My only respond is, why are we so surprised? Seriously, what is so surprising about whatever he said? That's the beauty of being a history student, you get to know about some of the darkest secrets and alternative perspectives of people, places and events, and we historians know this is really nothing new. He has done and said worst things in the past, but they are either hidden, barred from being told, or portrayed as the sacrifices necessary in the name of nation building. This is me trying to apply whatever I've learned from historical interpretation. History as we know it is sanitised and shaped to suit the interest of the dominant group. We should chuckle whenever we hear things like 'hidden truth' or 'the untold story' and expressions along that line. I could be ridiculously extreme to perhaps say that our entire life, this entire world is a lie. Or am I? This is treading the boundaries of logic and philosophy (I think) and I find no rationality in dwelling in them so I shall not proceed any further.

But another news that caught my attention was the death of yet another young army personnel. He was only 19, and just sat for his SAT, hoping to get into SMU upon completion. He died after a truck that he was loading or unloading things on or from reversed and knocked him down. It sounds a little too simple to be the cause of death really but this is not the only time it has happened that resulted in death. Why are we losing many innocent people in the army but not the civil defence or the police when I honestly think the risk involved in the two latter fields of service far exceeds that of the army. We face real fire in our fire fighting and rescue training yet apart from extreme heat exhaustion resulting in temporary brain and bodily dysfunction, we have never had anyone dying from getting caught in the fire! It just seems a little freaky to me really. As freaky as my dream last night where my friends and I dared ourselves to sleep in a haunted house and received freaky disturbances during the night. Haha.

A little update perhaps: I have been seriously swarmed and swamped with work. What's new. But I'm quite excited about the multi-racial designer telekung project we are working on to be exhibited at our Marketplace of Creative Arts event this 19 Feb. It brings me back to the days when I had so much drive and passion for the fashion industry, reminiscing the dreams I had of being a fashion designer. Good days good days. I felt a great sense of elation like a kid in a candy store when we were looking at all kinds of fabrics that we could use for our telekung project. Oh beautiful beautiful fabrics. My mind went crazy coming up with creative ways that I could turn those beautiful stuff into gorgeous wearable clothings. It made my day :) Of course it was shortlived when the night came and other things started to happen..

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