This afternoon I saw a headline in “today” that says some facts for thoughts where it listed the state of China’s disaster relief fundings. According to the paper, china apparently has more than enough to recover itself in the coming years, even without much help. Myanmar, on the other hand , needs help alot more and so it asks, why are people donating to china more?

My personal reply is the transparency and coverage of china’s earthquake. Once again, we witness the power of the media but of course that is not the focus here. China’s open attitude towards foreign help has been instrumental in both getting aids and being covered worldwide. Tragic stories of victims weigh our hearts down everyday and these pictures stays in our mind, convincing us that this is real, taking on a more personal attitude towards it. The disaster in myanmar , on the other hand, is poorly covered and extra efforts seemed to be put into denying foreign help as compared to china’s open attitude. I think this sort of disconnects the link between ourselves and the disaster. Unlike the events in china, the events in myanmar seems to be more distanced between us.

Humans are emotional beings, resulting in given attention to things that we feel more with. Fortunately for myanmar, organisations like the red cross and UN sees the urgent need to provide help and relief to the victims .

There has been a recent Trend among my friends to identify me with the singer Fang Datong . This is really strange because i’ve never heard any of his songs or seen his picture before. It’s like saying oh u look like my friend in america. Duh. But after all that hooha ( special thanks to Tofu Boywho’s been spreading to everyone ) I decided to check out his songs and they are actually quite nice. But i still think i dont look like him! Please tell me i dont hahaha. Here’s a comparison.

I think it’s only the specs but Gary aka Tofu thinks otherwise.
Heres an excerpt of our chat.

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ctrl+s
fuck u
haha

(r)¤t?f?=b?y¤ www.wardrobefantasies.blogspot.com
u join any competition
u sure win
confirm chop
best is
u imitate him
sing his song
people will go
wow!

That’s total rubbish cause i know I can’t sing as well lol.

I’m sure many of you would have seen the news or on the newspapers of the very unfortunate earth quake in sichuan province’s wenchuan in china. These heart wrenching stories have spread to various corners of the world and we should definitely help in anyway we can.

The singapore red cross society is appealing to the public for generous donations in aid to relief the disaster areas in sichuan. The ways to donate are :

1) Walk-in cash/cheque donations

* Singapore Red Cross, 15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486.
* Collection hours are:

Monday to Friday: 9:30am-5:45pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9:30am-5:00pm

2) Cheque donations

* Cheque to be made payable to the “Singapore Red Cross Society”.
* Please indicate at the back of the cheque name of donor/organisation (if applicable), mailing address and contact numbersand “Red Cross China Earthquake”
* Cheques should then be sent to Singapore Red Cross, 15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486. Once the cheque/s are received, an official non-tax deductible receipt will be issued.

3) Other avenues include banking services offered by UOB, DBS, OCBC and Maybank and the AXS Stations.

* Donors may log onto the SRC’s website for detailed instructions to its donation channels

Since the tragedy on 13 May, the SRC has been monitoring the situation closely with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC).

For more information on the SRC and the IFRC’s relief assistance, the public may log on to www.redcross.org.sg or call the SRC at 6334-9152/53.

Media correspondence:
Carol Teo
Head, Corporate Communications
Singapore Red Cross
Tel: (65) 9847 2024 (Mobile) / (65) 6336-0269 x 272 (Office)
Email: carol.teo@redcross.org.sg

The details above are extracted from Blog2u.sg . Kudos for spreading this.

If you are too busy to make time to go to the red cross, alternatively you can buy the panda breads in breadtalk . For every one panda bread, 2 dollars goes to the donation in aid of the earthquake areas. Breadtalk is everywhere so it is easier. It’s very often sold out but one can actually just donate money to the tin beside the cashier where they keep all the donations. Please help them. There are so many orphans crying for their parents , they really need the help.

It seems that many people are in love with my spectacles but doing so while clubbing is not exactly the best thing to do haha. My spectacles nearly got lost while being passed around, it became a whore. It’s a funny day, things got lost and my phone nearly got lost too but that did not dampen the spirits of the girls who were high and drunk ahhaha. And they all say the same thing, i’m not drunk. Mambo night was surprisingly low in numbers and the last few times we went, it was packed like sardines in a tin. Today we had more than enough space, is there such a thing as low season? Anyway, have a look at these people who had fun with my specs.

I will be posting all photography related posts to a new site at
http://ctrlsave.com/photography/from now on.

Why am i doing this? for a few reasons.
1) I feel hiao, so i make a new one.
2) I think i have too many different things here.
3) I want to take photography abit more seriously ( or trying to )

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Truth from ctrlsave on Vimeo.

Typographic expressions based on interviews on people from streets on their perception of truth.

Sketch for exoplanet from ctrlsave on Vimeo.

Simple soundscape sketch in processing