"I don't think most people can describe where inspiration comes from. All I know is that if it is not put to proper use, it disappears. I've got some notes that I jotted down 10 years ago, but I can no longer remember why I wrote them. Now, I don't know how to use them. It's lost forever."
-- Su Tong
"The maps of space that reside in our mind, though they are nothing like the spaces described by physicists or mathematicians, represent a kind of compromise between our need to conquer space well enough to survive and the limited capacities of our memory.
What we cannot perceive directly or remember, we invent. The silver lining of this act of invention is that our ability to imagine, stylise and transform space with our mind frees us from it in a way that is unique to us. This freeing of our mind from the trappings of physical space has been one of the key ingredients in an evolutionary path that has helped make us into beings unique among all living things on the planet (and perhaps in the universe) because we can both imagine ourselves being eslewhere and imagine an infinity of 'eslewheres' existing without us.
The same regionalisation that mentally disconnects us from other spaces allows us to free ourselves from the constraints of physical space in a way that is impossible for any other animal. By inventing space, we have made it our own."
-- Colin Ellard, You are Here
"The how of our project is quite simple. We provide a vehicle for visitors to share nightmares, experience the nightmares of others, and exchange ideas about these troubling dreams. For our purposes, "nightmare" means a dream you, the dreamer, considered significantly frightening or disturbing. We are looking for the dreams that made you wake with a start, that caused you to leave the light on, that made you think twice about going back to sleep."
-- The Nightmare Project
I just finished my portfolio yesterday.
It is quite worrying because cos I find my routine disrupted (or rather ended) and now I need to formulate another one.
For the past 3 weeks since my last day at RSP, on almost every weekday, I have been waking up at 8am to travel to NLB to work on my portfolio from 10am to 8pm. Time passed very fast this way. From my seat at the 7th storey of NLB, I could see the city (its the view with the shophouses in the foreground and Suntec in the background) and to watch it turn from day to night as my portfolio progressed made me feel a peculiar sense of accomplishment and satisfaction about the routine I devised for myself. It is entirely arbituary (it can be anywhere as long as its out of my home, I sleep a lot at home!). It is entirely self imposed. But when you are jobless and have the full 24 hours at your disposal, you need a routine.
On the days that I did not go to the library to work and just stayed at home, I realised one interesting thing: Time passed even faster. If I sleep in, have a late lunch, surf a bit of net, watch TV and take an afternoon nap, by the time I wake up, it would already be dusk. Dusk is also the time you knock off from work. So you start marvelling at the amount of salaried pay you could have made in the same time frame, if you still had a job.
But that's an observation, not a lamentation.
