Entries from white space, white noise tagged with 'national service'
Our culture
Kill or be Killed Photoshop CS3 February 2008 (Click to expand) Formed of a culmination of thoughts, emotions and experiences from two years of mandatory national service spent in the country's armed forces, this piece of work seeks to...
Sowed sparingly
So we've been out for over a month and a half. Whatever you want to call it, serfdom, jail, rot, torture, total waste of time, I think most of us bear the same rightfully negative sentiments. Disregarding overlaps, what differs...
Exit, unobserved
And We March On Photoshop CS2 (Click to expand) If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?...
Futility
Futility Photoshop CS2 (Click to expand) There is a certain futility in work one eventually observes on the ground. In a conscripted armed force, people from all walks of life come into play, but not everyone will do their...
The little good
Over a Game or Two (Click to expand) These were from two weeks ago, which was also the last time I was actually outside home for any kind of social activity. Like the previous two gatherings, we were still...
Euphemism for slavery
It's getting so damn tiring, this constant back and forth motion; graphing an impossibly straight line with sudden peaks and troughs on occasions unknown - in and out, work and slack, bliss and depression, caring and not. This whole empty...
Might as well
Hard Fall Photoshop CS2 (Click to expand) It might as well have happened this way; take away the living part of life and just throw us the uniforms, pep talks, and high flung intentions at birth. Might as well...
Normal change is not constant
It's interesting how we as humans have this affixed wonderment towards time and its passage, like how I had the immediate tendency to describe time as having flown in starting off this entry. Disregarding my general lack of creativity in...
Too early to say goodnight
Foreign (Click to expand) Sameness (Click to expand) Just a backlog of stuff from my sketchbook documenting life: familiar things turning foreign and each day exuding a painful sameness, vice versa. Few words left to say these days, well...
Speed
Back from three days of field ops deployment at - I'm not sure if I'm allowed to disclose the location, so I'll just say it's in the western part of Singapore - (which happens to coincide with the International Monetary...
A picture's worth
Off on a Monday from my weekend guard duty, I've decided to upload some of the (more presentable) things that have gone into my sketchbook in the past month and a bit more. Figurines (Click to expand) Self-explanatory, exactly what...
Call us out
They're Building Hate Today Photoshop 7 (Click to expand) Drew some direct reference from Manet's Execution of Maximilian, but as to what the work means, I'll leave it up to interpretation. Actually I didn't catch the Parade at all...
Run
Breaking Ranks Photoshop 7 (Click to enlarge) Not sure exactly what it's supposed to mean, if I had to I'd say it's the search for identity and dignity, and the struggle with being. Life's been fine so far....
Night out
So I've been posted to 3rd DA Battalion at ADSD and thus begins my true National Service. Being the active operational unit that it is, don't expect me to post much about its daily going-ons, what I can say is...
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