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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…