ok so at the end of the book you'd think maybe, just maybe, suwen did grow.

especially when she finally says something intelligent, like

"art devoid of a sense of history is an abstraction, isnt it?"

but dear emo fictional singaporean woman whom i feel a strange form of affinity for,

if abstraction is the search for pure form, how can history, subjective and fallible, exist within the same constraints as art?

so lets say she did not grow a lot. but i think she's bloody cool cos she painted mark.... de kooning style!


two nights ago.... i think (starting to lose track of time). i overheard two dumb uni undergrads (hypothetically speaking, cos i saw their thick psychology textbooks) musing about THE GREATEST COSMOLOGICAL QUESTION OF ALL:

"what is means ah? is it the means justify the ends or what ah?"

so you see. people who go uni may not be very intelligent after all. consequentialism is like DUUUUUUUH primordial common sense. actually maybe they just need a dictionary.

oh yes THE ENDS WILL JUSTIFY THE MEANS.

or maybe i am just self-deluded.