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I have been meeting up with Benny to finalise the script for our performance in December for Initiation International. We're doing a piece on human rights, which should be quite interesting and controversial. Today we were in a kopitiam at Fortune Centre and we were laughing really loudly at some of our crazy ideas we came up with. Do come and support us, it's free! Just go to this website to register : http://www.thefunstage.org/ii.htm On Monday, Mike Stubbs, a curator from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, flew in to have a meeting with me. I'll be representing S'pore for an exhibition over there in Feb. Apparently I'm the youngest artist in the exhibition, most of them are really established, with multi-million budgets and are part of the biennale circuit. Oh dear. So pressurised. They gave me a really huge space some more. Yikes! Luckily, NAC is going to give additional support because the exhibition will be on for 3 months or so. Australia, here I come! Mike also made me blush at the NAC meeting cuz he was gushing about my works to the NAC pple. Sigh...flattery gets me everytime. I just read an essay defending Hypersurface that Donna Ong pointed out to me which was very well-written found here: Meta-critiquing by Brendan Goh . I remember reading Weng Choy's essay a few months back and was so worked up. Yes, I confess. I get worked up when people have negative comments on my works. I can't help it, I care too much for my work, and I will defend whatever I do cuz I'm responsible for the things I create mah. Well, any attention is better than no attention. And it seems the more emotional I get, more people show more attention. Keke! I'm also working on a new piece called Soul II Soul Remix which will open on 15 December at the Singapore History Museum. It's a pretty huge project and I have started to hire a team, so that I can run the project effectively. Can't say anything much except that it will be weird and beautiful. Har har! On the homefront: I'm getting drained and I need to go for a long holiday soon. I can't wait for Joe to finish his exams so we can go to somewhere romantic. My sister is freezing in Norway. Apart from writing her essays (she's doing her Masters in law there), she has been going to Wham! concerts, crossing fjords and glaciers, and digging up viking ships. There was some minor disturbance on Blurty land recently, but I can't remember what it was about. Alfian has been marrying books in the library, I wanted to give him a surprise visit yesterday, but he was stuck in camp. I ended up getting a free massage from an angel with a name tag that says "Dolphine" or something like that. It was pretty good though, although Donna was telling me that the angel was doing a weird dance while I was listening to an audio tape that told me how to differentiate breeds of cats. I received an email from Yi-Sheng who is wandering around Europe now as I write. He was recounting his great adventure in Prague, and the Bel-Ami boys that he was hanging out with. The last email I got from him earlier this year, he was in Iceland eating shark sushi soaked in urine and making out with a blond-haired blue-eyed angel in some weird seedy gay party that had a weeping birthday boy and fat drag queens. I will not write about his trip to South America. We would all die of envy of his descriptions of the devastatingly beautiful cocaine-filled golden boys that he met over there. Miaovin the lamb has been showing me clips of Mariah on his new Ipod video which I nearly stole when he went to the toilet. I must say, it's so good that I can actually see her arms wobbling when she does that waving-in-the-air thing when she hits the high notes. Oh, I managed to sell two paintings from Mysterious Book, the Invisible Scream (my favourite painting from that series!), which is my asian take on Edvard Munch's Expressionist masterpiece. The other was the one with little bunnies and little men flying. I sold it off to a nice young army boy (Natdaniel's friend) for $150 and $100 each. So if you have money to burn, please buy from me, these paintings need good homes. Yes, the lights come with the painting, I've engineered them very well, so u can use them as weird table lamps as well.  SOLD!!       
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