Humble lao chio?
Man... you sounds like my boss! He's like 50+ and everyone think that he's barely 40! Heck! I think choy looks older than my boss! ;p
I think most Asian women look younger than their years - when I was in the US - NOBODY could believe I was this age!
Interesting link between a half-renovated house and modern art. Still, I really feel that it's unfair to lump everything into Modern Art just because one couldn't understand it. The feeling is like, this piece of art is rubbish. Let's call it "modern art". Heck! Simply disrespectful to modern art.
Modern art is the nutshell artform that have been totally influenced by postmodernism, which tend to include components of deconstruction. This of course is contradictory, for the genre itself needs to be deconstructed in the first place to even lump the art together.
Sigh... the thing is - I am rather tired of 'postmodernism' / 'deconstruction' / modern art ... - besides I don't think one can 'understand' fully ANY art let alone 'modern' art. And I am going to admit it once and for all - I don't like abstract art unless they are colourful or they speak to me - sometimes i just let things speak to me and NOT analyse/deconstruct/apply limitations by DEFINING them and putting them into boxes ...
Cos there's a lot of dimension within a university? At the student and academics level, probably subjects like religious studies are of interest. But once it goes to the senate level, they will question on how objective this will be, how relevent it is to the society, and what's the potential career path one could take, graduating from that field. And then up one more level to the varsity level, they will have to decide whether there should streamline the departments even more to save on the budget. Up one more level, it will be the constant debate between the government and the uni of what kind of "products" they have to churn in 5, 10, 15, 20 years time.
So why isn't there a religious studies department in NUS? Well, just find one level that could go wrong and voila!
In other words - SINGAPORE IS A UTILITARIAN SOCIETY - EVERYTHING MUST SERVE A PURPOSE - and at this moment - Religious Studies seem quite un-utilitarian (or is it non-utilitarian?) - sigh ... what to do when you live in a techno-Neo-Confucianist socially engineered paradigm? Even BEAUTY has to serve a purpose ... And God too - yes - God is there to BLESS and PROTECT ...and studying RELIGION? NO NEED - just PRACTICE will do.
I'm forever in the midst of argument when it comes to christianity, for literally no one in Singapore understand the what is atheism and what implications it means. And me, having a vested interest in philosophy, love to talk to my friends who are taking the module to see how open-minded they have became. Most often than not, the conservative side got the better of them, and I would just have to emphasis my stance that being christian isn't about being religious (religious in going to churches, taking bible literally, going for organised church activities, etc. etc.), but a more personal and spiritual association/relationship between the christian and god. That often ended up quite ugly, with us not talking for a week or so! Haaa~! :bsmilie:
