tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12675626.post114848688599114889..comments2024-03-22T15:59:31.125+08:00Comments on ampulets: room with a viewampuletshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06219304381301554353noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12675626.post-77253530346937883062011-06-27T21:08:29.403+08:002011-06-27T21:08:29.403+08:00Staring at the beautiful view from your window is ...Staring at the beautiful view from your window is one of the most relaxing activities - especially during the sunset, if you are near a beautiful beach. Since Singapore has lots of temples and other historical places and houses, it would be great to spend some time staring at the window and take creative shots with your camera (whether DSLR or toy camera). For sure you'll capture creative craft for photography.Elnora Turmellehttp://www.ahtwindows.com/products-services/replacement-windows-madison-fox-cities-wi/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12675626.post-1148867175273641072006-05-29T09:46:00.000+08:002006-05-29T09:46:00.000+08:00planning an interstate holiday now, i realized tha...planning an interstate holiday now, i realized that i wouldn't have to go to a money-changer because i wld still be in the same country!! even my bank card will work, because they have branches there too.<BR/><BR/>this is a novelty because everytime i leave sg i have to visit the money-changer. talk about small-island-mentality.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11652000826372838428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12675626.post-1148866255290388142006-05-29T09:30:00.000+08:002006-05-29T09:30:00.000+08:00I'm tempted to agree with both (yah, what a cop ou...I'm tempted to agree with both (yah, what a cop out)! I guess in the case of Singapore, we could be accused of having some sort of "small island" mentality - of imagining our concerns and realities to form the basis for the rest of the world - hence mis-sizing our own relevance and importance? Aka "frog in the well" syndrome. Bigness here referring not to bigness not of heart or spirit, but of vision, imagination and daring. Of course, perhaps in the case of the US, that largeness of vision (Whitman's America) can also become the over-sizing of ambition and greed, the relentless frontier-seeking. <BR/><BR/>This is just a more long-winded way of saying we are a damned lot on earth! Entrusted with more, we grow exploitative. But seeing less, we grow timid and resigned. The one "good" thing is that at an individual level, somehow whatever bigness of heart or soul that still exists, resists the dictates of land mass and empire size.ampuletshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219304381301554353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12675626.post-1148708006882766102006-05-27T13:33:00.000+08:002006-05-27T13:33:00.000+08:00hey, wahj -- long time.i'll greet by presenting an...hey, wahj -- long time.<BR/><BR/>i'll greet by presenting an apposite pov, starting by stating that i believe the 'bigness' of yanks has little to do with any field of vision.<BR/><BR/>there's no more expansive view anywhere than in a desert, and there's never been a tribe or civilization to my knowledge that has come out of the desert with truly expansive worldview.<BR/><BR/><EM>as i write that i'm immediately reminded of the same thing you're now thinking in reading it -- the christian story of jesus in the desert -- make of it whatever you will</EM><BR/><BR/>there are few experiences to match time in a desert, but growing into that wide vista seems to involve a deep internal move of the soul.<BR/><BR/>american 'big' is nothing so profound. here it's big as in Big Macs and <EM>livin' large</EM> and Big Stick and lately Big Brother.<BR/><BR/>we're 'big' because of the space we have to <STRONG>move</STRONG> in, and the space we had to cross originally (both literal and psychic) to get away from what drove us here in the first instance.<BR/><BR/>and finally, i'll firm up the implication by saying that this movement continues now as some idiotic aggressive riot of conflict. wide-open vistas accompanied by a very narrow heart.<BR/><BR/>yes, you're reading a strong bias. i don't think that detracts from my central point, if you can find it :)monkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00912078090161136022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12675626.post-1148703614467228052006-05-27T12:20:00.000+08:002006-05-27T12:20:00.000+08:00Dickinson's experience isn't completely alien to a...Dickinson's experience isn't completely alien to a Singporean: I spent most of my youth staring out one window in my flat as well.<BR/><BR/>I've become convinced that that outer landscape available to us is what shapes and limits our inner landscape - that our view of the world literally shapes our worldview. I've always felt that most Americans think big because of the space they can see before their very eyes (city-dwellers and poet-recluses excepted) whereas most Singaporeans think small because we live in a place where we can't even see the horizon most of the time.wahjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10271216752725133010noreply@blogger.com