#stories of singapore

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Little Ironies "Taximan's Story by Catherine Lim

Diving into "The Taximan's Story by Catherine Lim's "Little Ironies" felt like stepping into a slice of Singaporean life. The story was all about a taxi driver who shares his thoughts with a passenger, called 'Madam'. He talks about his job driving tourists and social escorts, and how he dislikes the younger generation for their choices. But things take a twist when he reveals his own daughter was once a social escort, leaving him feeling ashamed and conflicted. We picked this story because it explores relatable themes such as the relationship and trust between parent and child, generational conflicts, and societal changes. The literariness of "The Taximan's Story"is evident as it is obviously made up of words and texts, and careful use of language. It is a short story that can be read artistically given that it was written in First Person's Point of View and open to interpretations.

Our goal is to help students really connect with literature. That's why we get creative with how we adapt this short story. Nowadays, students our age are now more engage with multimedia due to the advancement of technologies and now that we are more exposed in media. We use things like videos and cool digital platforms, like (Alternative Universe, also known as AU Stories), to make stories feel more real and personal. Text-chat videos are also on trend on TikTok recently. Using this fact to our advantage, we incorporate our chosen literature in a way students would enjoy watching and at the same time, learn this literature.

When it comes to any changes we make from the original text, it's all about giving readers a fresh perspective. Take, for example, shifting the point of view from the father to the daughter in "The Taximan's Story." In the original text, we only hear the father's side of the story, but by flipping the script, we open up a whole new world of interpretations.

We wanted to get everyone thinking. So, we asked questions like, "What else could this story mean?" and "How does it relate to us?" We believe understanding stories like "The Taximan's Story" isn't just about reading – it's about exploring and finding new ideas. And that's what we're all about.

leader: Antonio, Erika E.

members: Crisostomo, Shane Leanne C. Lectura, Joedahlia N. Maniago, Jenie Babe D. Marquez, Cianna P. Muñoz, Alexa Faith B. Quidor, Jana Andrea G. Tuyor, Jian Geile M.

[blamemma]

max verstappen and daniel ricciardo during the singapore grand prix drivers parade | 📸

[blorbocedes]

fernando alonso speaking to his team principal flavio briatore after winning singapore 2008, aka crashgate

if you as my boss, manager, and lover won't fix a race for me and risk a lifetime ban from the sport then I don't want you!!!!!!!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The Mine/Starlight medley was a brilliant pairing because combined it tells the story of a guarded person who’s been hurt in the past putting her trust and faith in a compassionate, supportive and ambitious partner who steadfastly stands by her and counters her anxiety about the things she can’t control with a love for living in the present and unwaveringly encouraging her to embrace her dreams for the future 🙃

[artemispt]

🚨 CARLANDO GOLF DATE 🚨

[slutforpringles]

Interesting to me that even AMuS highlighted how unusual it was for Red Bull's Head of PR to be with Daniel for his media rounds, while also reiterating that Daniel still has Christian Horner's full backing and support. I also think Visa advocating for Daniel is a HUGE boost for him given their sponsorship deal is worth upwards of 20 million a year.

via: AMuS | Bleibt Daniel Ricciardo bis zum Saisonende?

[surprisesongoclock]

Taylor Swift performs a mash-up of long story short and The Story of Us in Singapore on March 3, 2024.

[mistressemmedi]

I'd say to turn this into a drinking game and take a shot whenever Crofty talks about "Singapore being Daniel's last race in F1" but at this rate we'd all end up with alcohol poisoning

[evermoredeluxe]

Taylor performing Long Story Short/The Story Of Us at The Eras Tour in Singapore (N2) on 3 March 2024 (x)

[cecoeur]

one of the team's title sponsors had no clue what was going on after the race but i'm supposed to believe that daniel knew for weeks ahead of time? PLEASE.

[corpsentry]

there’s something so epic about hetero chinese period dramas and i think one part of it is that there is absolutely nowhere in the narrative i could exist.

lately i’ve been on a western media detox— i’ve cleaned english language music out of my playlists and have never been able to stomach western dramas anyway, so that part is easy— which might seem funny, because if i’m in singapore and i hate it and i won’t touch american music then what’s left? the answer is the false binarism of chinese period dramas, at least for me. the badly written ones are misogynistic and stupid and the better ones are less of those things, but regardless the world that emerges is clean-cut and easy to parse. there’s someone to root for and someone to hate. there’s a girl and a boy. there’s the comedy and the drama, the sheer thick drama, the music that signals to you precisely how to feel before the scene even starts going

try to jam a fifth culture transnational transgender they/them with 2 mental illness and 1 autoimmune disease into this world and it simply doesn’t work. and that’s kinda epic lolzers! it’s like watching high fantasy, or super hardcore sci-if. it both represents a simulacrum of the real world and is so far from the reality you know that you understand it as a hypothetical universe, one that disincludes you on principle. i exclude myself from the story and in doing so fangfei from moyuyunjian’s steely gaze becomes all the more important. i give so many shits and laugh and yell and spectate. but i am safe from the eyes of its inhabitants. if i entered the story it would break. so i sit outside of it, clapping by myself

in other news, we gave up on mysterious lotus casebook 16 episodes in. there are many character archetypes in these shows that i can no longer stand; the salacious sexy seductive supervillain lady is not necessarily one of them but the way they did miss ‘this man didn’t even Look at me when all men fall at my knees so i hated him’ ‘no one is allowed to steal buttchin from me’ jiao was way up there. surely a woman can have multiple personality traits and yet you would think from this drama that that is not at all true. and the strange harem that grew around li lianhua despite his absolute loser attitude— like i get it, he’s the gintoki of this show, that’s hot, but the way the women who were into him were written made me want to Eat Horse. it bothered me that di feisheng and lianhua’s homo as fuck dynamic was so intriguing and them + fang duobing was a winning trio but all the women in the show were written like complete fucking ass, and one of the big antagonists being a woman, the stakes throughout were not only lost to me but also Pissed Me Off. also, that case about the corpse flowers dragged on forever and all my pocky wilted

I Just Think, women deserve better in these damn stories. make them slutty as hell, sure, but make them other things too and i mean this in the most generous sense. slutty and proud. slutty and weird. slutty and oblivious. literally anything at all so they don’t come out cardboard flat from all angles. this is why i have a personal vendetta against the ditzy clueless female protagonist as well because if everything stems from the fact that she doesn’t know shit it’s like please someone Please tell her shit i’m on my hands and knees begging. give her more to chew on she’s dying of boredom over there

this is why i liked the so called antagonist of blossoms in adversity best (spoilers ahead). he was cruel as hell to huazhi and gu yanxi’s only parental figure. he was paranoid and selfish and lonely and craved a son’s love from the one person he couldn’t hold onto. in the end he is pushed further and further by huazhi, who won’t give in, to isolate yanxi from the people he loves and to lash out at those people as a way of punishing yanxi. and when he dies it’s because of his own distrust, his own negligent parenting, his absent cruelty from decades of insomnia and lack of faith in his people. but he cries for yanxi, and there’s something so human about that. to think of evil not as a first principle but rather an adjective for a verb that is set in motion by other events. to be honest, i haven’t seen such thoughtful writing in any chinese period drama before or after that and i strongly suspect i will never see such writing again in this genre but man, it was so fucking good (spoilers end).

in the meantime, i’ve dragged my mother to moyuyunjian/the double for the return casting of liu xiening and wang xingyue who are Eating so hard. they’ve got wang xingyue done up with the sluttiest makeup and liu xiening is breaking my heart with her pout and her Sassy Mean constitution and this is a revenge story, yes, but it’s a double revenge story. it’s a grief story. and fangfei is carrying more on her shoulders than lingbuyi imo, and doing so with much more grace too. her step mom’s a dick but she’s a smart, 5d chess playing dick who wears hot shades of green so i’m personally interested enough to keep watching (something lotus casebook DID NOT accomplish with their epic female antagonist…. mein gotte). and the princess too. unhinged as hell but god, so charismatic. and beautiful, with scary big eyes and the sweetest head tilt. fun fun fun! that’s fun character writing right there. the comedy might be too straightforward for my tastes but everything else is kind of hot and sexy And after the coming of age ceremony when jiangli appeared amidst the flowers i felt my throat close up even though we saw her for all of one (1) episode). i was like yes. they got me alright. i Care now

really that’s all that matters isn’t it. we want stories about people we care for. we want to give a shit. why else would we listen to the stories of other people. we are looking for us and the people we love in them

oh also moyuyunjian soundtrack goes hard as hell i love a little three step waltz. here’s a pic from the ‘gym’ for ur time. guten night

[strilondism]

greek mythology level incest happening in homestuck tbh tbh tbh tbh except its more emotional that procreational

at the end of the day homestuck is about consuming your children to maintain power

tho i'd actually say that the plot beats resulting from these incestuous moments are what they procreate. e.g. ult dirk & rosebot are incestuous in multiple ways: he's (metaphorically) sexually abusing her, this is a retelling of doc scratch & rose (incestuous self-referencing on a meta level), and their coupling will create "new" children/a "new" story/the same story endlessly repeating

[palalabu]

New wallpaper i guess

[dailyniallnews]

Niall via IG story | May 9, 2024

[orengesz]

My boys, my glorious boys on the podium alongside one another.

Their joy for eachother is beyond anything that can be written.

Look at him waiting for his bestie so they can chat and hug it out, and pose and post eachother on their stories and accounts with their cute little ship name.

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Pushed from the precipice Clung to the nearest lips ꧁ Long Story Short, ꧂ it was the wrong guy now I'm all about you . . . ➵ I used to think one day we'd tell ꧁ The Story Of Us ꧂ How we met and the sparks flew instantly and people would say, "They're the lucky ones"

Performed at The Eras Tour | Singapore N2