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Raising the yellow flag
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 30/09/2014
» The sky above Chinatown is blocked by a dense layer of yellow flags and lanterns and banners; the air heavy with grease from industrial-sized frying pans. Navigating Yaowarat with any form of transportation, on foot or on a bus, during the past week has been more chaotic than ever. The annual Vegetarian Festival, which ends on Thursday, is celebrated not by just believers, young and old, in white and in every other colour, but also by the media and sponsors ranging from banks to amusement parks.
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Replacing statistics with narratives
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 05/11/2014
» I spent my Halloween weekend shuffling between panels at the Singapore Writers Festival, listening to horror stories. I had been assigned to attend sessions on a variety of discourses, from jazz and poetry to writing about the female body. Instead, I found myself sitting front row at every session featuring Jang Jin-Sung, a North Korean defector, Loung Ung, a survivor of the Pol Pot regime, and Mukesh Kapila, who was the UN commissioner in Sudan as genocide in Darfur broke out.
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The leader's true self
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/11/2014
» 'A few months ago, the [North Korean] Ministry of Interior issued a statement on TV — 'We will remove your existence from the universe'," says Jang Jin-sung, unfazed, over a decade after he fled North Korea in the middle of the day, across the frozen Yalu River and into China.
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Clash of the beasts
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/03/2015
» A title of a work of art works as a cue, a reference, a connection, an analogy. Yuree Kensaku named her most recent work When The Elephants Fight, The Grass Gets Trampled. She thinks in symbols. She has a feeling for idioms. When she thought of the painting, she thought in language. She thought of how to best represent it.
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Now, Still Showing
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 27/02/2015
» In 1978, Sutin Wangpaibul lived next to a temple in Thon Buri. He was in Prathom 5, and each Friday he would rush home to complete his homework so he could go to the open-air movies at the temple grounds in the evening.
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Colouring the character of a city
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 23/10/2014
» On Oct 12, Cyclone Hudhud wrecked thousands of homes in Visakhapatnam in India. On the same day, Japan braced itself for Typhoon Vongfong and advised hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the US, it cut the power to more than 8 million homes in New York. In 2011, roads in Thailand became rivers. Shelves were emptied in supermarkets. Production lines stopped. The country was paralysed. Three years later, we are still recovering, always shoring up in case of another destructive flood.
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More than words
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/11/2014
» In July, the National Library Board of Singapore pulled two books from the children's books shelves. One of them And Tango Makes Three is based on a true story about two male Chinstrap penguins raising a chick in Central Park Zoo. The other, The White Swan Express, mentions a lesbian couple.
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Kafka on our shores
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 03/06/2014
» It’s hard to find a writer who isn’t influenced by Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis stirred late Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez to start writing short stories.
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Music, Art and coffee come together
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 07/05/2014
» The GOJA Gallery Cafe has a distinctive vibe. A Lil Wayne, skate park, abandoned building and Steve Aoki mash-up kind of vibe.
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