Happy blessed 23rd birthday Yiangmeng! Headed down to The Icing room to decorate him a cake, which turned out quite creative (props to Delvin's SNAG skills hehe) I thought it was quite an enterprising venture, since the materials themselves are pretty inexpensive.
Favourite picture out of the lot - everyone in their own respective worlds ♥ (Except that my Mango dress looks like a romper here)
Dinner @ Food for thought!
Hot fries and a slice of chocolate rum cake on the house ^^
"I wish for CAP5 and to eat Nutella for the rest of my life...."
Sinful desserts for the day
Group shots and food - credits to Xiner
Headed down to Singapore Arts museum whilst waiting for the restaurant to be opened in hope of escaping the heat - interesting exhibits going on.
I was terribly fascinated by the clocks installation, where clocks of differing speed were erected on the walls - signifying the time taken for a person to die from the inscribed illness. When the needle spins a full circle, their melodious chimes creeps up on you at first but you start getting accustomed to the harmony after a while, devoid of the initial intense emotions. (Which reflects the clinical nature of new age information because we're so overexposed to stimuli around, startling but true) Infusing a bit of social psychology here, the reflective surface of the clocks also made us more vulnerable to being self-aware in the situation. "Each statistic becomes but a lone number in an endless sea of data we no longer react to, this installation tries to humanize this anonymous sea of data, injecting some of that life back into the idea of information by engaging us on a personal level, encouraging viewers to reflect upon the nature of the knowledge we receive."
Another exhibit that caught me off guard was "The Need of an Alteration" by Andree Weschler. It was hard to stomach at first, but it became oddly mesmerizing and we had our eyes fixated on the clip (which was on loop and playing backwards) for a good 15 minutes. The artist is the actress herself, and the clip shows her belching out black ink from her mouth; and sucking it back up in the parallel screen (played on reverse). All I remembered was that the performance was about the symbolism of the black chinese ink, possibly juxtaposed against her white fair complexion, and it being the metaphor for release or burden; or clean VS dirty.
This particular installation was mind boggling too, but I can't recall the artist name nor the explication for it whoops.
14 January – 15 April 2012
Singapore Art Museum @ 8Q
The Icing room 313@Somerset
Orchard Road #B2-52 Singapore 233895
Food for thought
8 Queen Street Singapore 188535
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