Category: Experiments
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We Are One: May 29 to Jun 7
I miss making dog ears out of my film festival catalogues and looking for seat numbers in the dark, but I’m not complaining. Today, twenty-one global film festivals have come together, as one. Before I was able to travel, films played a big part in my late-teenage years and early twenties. It was the portal…
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2020: April #1secondeveryday
Out of curiosity, we started growing plants and attempted to build a bird sanctuary (of sorts). Whatever that we have created in the last year has made this roof access a haven in times of a pandemic. { Afterthought } When shelter-in-place started last month, April 7 seems like a date not too far away.…
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COVID-19 journal: Sprouting a new attitude
When the White House warns against going out to buy groceries, it is only natural to avoid heading out during the projected apex. Yet, after three weeks of onions, potatoes and carrots, we do crave something, new. “Let’s grow bean sprouts out of mung beans!” “How? We’ve ran out of soil. And it is going to…
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2020: March #1secondeveryday
The month everything changed. { Afterthought } San Francisco declared a state of emergency at the end of February and March started with many people panic buying at Walgreens. March 16 started as a date we marked down for my tooth extraction – I was nervous but did not see the shock coming. Coincidentally, on…
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COVID-19 woes: Spread a little daily dose of positivity
We are suddenly panicking about Covid-19 spreading around the world. This pandemic has caused much anxiety among our families and friends. Before we drive ourselves mad, here’s a daily reminder – “always always remember to BR(EAT)HE!” Last week, amid fretting over Covid-19 updates and getting paranoid about my tooth extration, I channelled my energy into…
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What happens after the Kale flower?
Since our return, two of our kales have been blooming with yellow flowers – we learnt that they have probably arrived at the end of their cycles. As much as we want to watch this flowering process, we noticed how the rest of our kales have shrunk and turned purple. We moved the flowering ones…
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2020: February #1secondeveryday
February went too quickly. { Afterthought } On February 7, Singapore declared DORSCON Orange and was No. 2 in the world with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19. It was almost time for us to leave. There were 67 confirmed cases. Ever since we got back to San Francisco, we started to prepare ourselves for…
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Our su-percalifragilisticexpialido-cculent
A while back, we bought a Haworthia Tessellata – mostly because it had the tallest and longest train of buds. We can’t remember its full name and often call it the “red alligator plant”. As we watched the flowers bloom one after another, a friend from Singapore told us that the stalk and flowers were sucking up…
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2020: January #1secondeveryday
Last year, we watched our friend, Eugene, documented his 2019 with 1-second videos, every day. We are very fascinated and inspired, mostly because it is hard to pick 1 second out of 86,400 seconds to represent a single day. This year, we want to give it a go. Here’s January. { Afterthought } We did…
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