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Image Credit: Ribut (1983)

Explore our repository of articles, essays, reviews and interviews covering a wide range of arts and culture. The majority of these were commissioned and published on the online arts magazine Kakiseni from 2002 – 2010.

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  • The Merlion Spouts

    Recently, I attended the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) as an invited writer. Objectivity is very…

  • RM309 Million And The Arts

    The latest edition of our federal government’s proposed annual budget was disclosed 30 Sep 2005.…

  • The Year of Tears

    When we received the SMS that morning in April informing us that Krishen Jit was…

  • Playing With History

    As children we are told the names of things – naming is one of the…

  • The MPO Winter Collection

    I spent the first two years of my marriage as a professional mall rat. And…

  • Majukanlah Rock Untuk Negara

    Meski menyorot sekelumit dari sejarah sosio-hiburan silam yang berkecamuk dan tercerai-cerai, Rock membawa kita kembali…

  • Oh Baby, Baby, It’s A Wild World

    We thought that the Christmas season would be a good moment to review some children’s…

  • Enough Is Enough!

    We’ve heard it before (and will continue to hear it). Man fed up with world…

  • Fun on the Night Shift

    Chapter 1: Ikat Batu at Gudang – a warehouse tucked away in suburban Damansara Jaya…

  • Murder Most Foul (Can you smell the belacan?)

    This is another whodunit for the big stage. Though it was presented to Singaporeans for…

  • Our Funny Valentines

    I don’t even like jazz, as a genre, but jazz virtuosos do generate a peculiar…

  • To Dye For

    [This paper was first presented at “Batik Paintings – Public Talk by Dr. Zakaria Ali”…

  • Konfrontasi: With Ourselves

    “If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.” The significance of history,…

  • Beaches Brew

    Lying on the grass, staring up at the crescent moon, the sea breeze gently rustling,…

  • The Taste of Death

    We’ve all heard about the unusual delicacy that is the Shakespeare speech. Breaking through the…

  • Spongy Minds

    In the last 20 years, this country has seen the rise in the number of…

  • Victory Against Satan

    I am sitting in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre’s main auditorium watching a band of…

  • The Death of Art

    Art for art’s sake died along Jalan Raja Laut the first Friday of Ramadhan this…