Sunday, September 30, 2018

Fluff & Roses


Big colour splash: Lunch with Sumiko. (One of the feather-tickle feature writers.) Special Gift: How a tin of Khong Guan assorted biscuits inspired Minister Masagos Zulkifli.
         Advance notice for the Sunday Times tomorrow, along with another item: Who’s that girl? And another: Public proposals: Romance or coercion? Showing a chap at Universal Studios in fluffy-toy outfit on his knees before his princess who had been surprised moments before with a beach ball sized bunch of roses that every girl in Singapore dreams about. 
         Hours after landing from the nascent democracy over the Causeway. (1km. might as well be 10,000, mountain ranges, rivers and glaciers dividing.)
         “.... a hitherto unseen zest seems to be firing up Mrs Tzipi Livni....” (Israeli Opposition Leader) the tenor of reportage on world affairs. 
         Korean War saga in for major plot twist. 
         Bigger plans for next phase of Tianjin Eco-City. (Singapore exporting its ecological know-how.) 
         Two pages on from the zestful politician and doubly as long: How Israel became a Cyber super-power.
         Hold your horses not done yet, there was more. 
         The BIG PICTURE page: Pride of place for the Void Deck: “One of the highlights of Archifest 2018, SG’s annual festival celebrating architecture....feature elements of void decks, such as the angled hole-in-the-wall and slanted pillars.”
         Disneyland with the death penalty indeed and in spades. The point needs underlining that it is the artlessness of the production here, the naivete and lack of finesse compared to our more accomplished pretense. (In the case of the US, at least pre-Trump.)

For treatments of the Decks here see these pages: 
Void Deck 15/10/2013
Void Deck (2) 3/5/2016 
Void Deck (3) 9/5/2016


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