Spent a wonderful evening in the company of friends old and new from Loke Cheng Kim Foundation Scholars & Alumni making strange but fascinating connections. It all started with Pin Pin, the filmmaker, who brought up her new project, time capsules. Subconsciously we began circling around topics of layers, histories, and memory. Alasdair, the archaeology student spoke of the eight layers of civilisation uncovered during a dig (not date) in Wales, leaving us with the disturbing anecdote that corpses left on the coast (or hot humid climates) morph into balloons in the shape of men. Why? Because calcium dissolves, but cellulose doesnt. Good news for those of us trying to lose weight. Continuing on the theme of descending underground, Ethan the budding thespian brought up a Youtube performance he had watched, of a video artist sinking into quicksand (not quick hole). Table conversation soon meandered to sinkholes (not sinksand) in Clementi and Louisiana, and the reason why Singapores soil is red: high quantities of iron, perhaps the remains of the boy killed by a jealous Maharajah? P.S. Do not call them legends. Tat Chern, the quiet professor, asked the most profound questions of the night (and instantly upping his cool quotient with the young scholars). Why do we need human emotions? Ethics and morality are after all only the results of human interaction (correct me if I remembered you wrongly). And the second, rather existentialist question: when do plants die? Prof Leo Tan, the biologist, responded that plants never die, because they live on in their thousands of seeds. Alasdair presented the physicists argument: plants never die because they do not live. And from writer me: plants die when you forget about them. After all, if a tree falls in the forest without a sound but nobody knows, has it died? While we were all wowed by Ethans impromptu performance, the most natural actors must surely be Alasdair, who moaned about going first his year because his surname started with C, and Shumin, who recounted her embarrassment at singing Teresa Tengs The Moon Represents My Heart. Thank you, dear Illuminati and friends for the most enjoyable evening! **UPDATE FORGOT TO ADD** Our National Stadium time capsule from 1972 kena went missing when they tore it down to build the new Sports Hub. $50,000 REWARD if you can find it!!!
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:56:12 +0000
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