mau_lovers said:
Hmm ... dunno whether I can be classified as chio bu! Haha!! Maybe LAO BABE!! (Seriously I hope to STILL look like this when I am 50 plus 60 yrs old ... hahaha!!)
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
chio_bu said:
but i prefer to be a brainy babe - haha!! :think: Very busy so I 'vamoosed' for awhile - and I don't have Internet connection from home - coz place we live still under reno - we call it our 'Installation Art Piece' - Home in Progress!! Haha! Sigh - u know how 'MODERN ART' is nowadays - ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING can be Art - WA LIAW :dunno:
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.
chio_bu said:
Thanks - for the info - NUS student!! Wonder why NUS does not have Religion/Religious Studies Dept - then can 'pao' stuff fr Anthropology / Sociology / Philosophy / Linguistics / Art History etc etc !
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!
chio_bu said:
Hmm - what were u arguing abt Christ?
I just had a MAJOR discussion with one of my profs in the US abt free will in the Bible / Christianity - I don't think there is such a thing. I am brought up as a Christian and baptised etc - but I don't attend church anymore - coz I am not interested in organised religion. Or rather to PRACTICE any form of organised religion. Besides I am interested in ALL religions - just attended a talk organised by ARI (Asia Research Institute) on Religion in the Chinese Context - the prof is my prof's tutor fr Uni of Chicago - very very interesting - he (the speaker) translated 'The Journey To the West' into English and he did some analysis on 'Dream of the Red Chamber' (Hong Lou Meng) - in moments like these - I WISH I CAN READ CHINESE!! :cry:
oh well - that's my rambling thots for today - from a so - called 'chio bu' hahaa!!!
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: