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...LIAM FITZPATRICK spoke to Khoo (whose latest feature, My Magic, has just been accepted into the main competition at Cannes), as well as to Ekachai Uekrongtham (the only other Singaporean director to have shown at Cannes) and one of the city-state's most promising young directors, Brian Gothong Tan...
...harder as a storyteller. EKACHAI UEKRONGTHAM: From an artist's point of view it's always good to have no censorship, but in the real world that doesn't happen anywhere. There's some kind of censorship always - if not by the state, then by the society. BRIAN GOTHONG TAN: The suppression in Singapore and Asia in general works for me. It's one of the reasons why, after I graduated from L.A., I moved back to Singapore - because for me art is always about pushing boundaries or testing the limits and making people see things differently. It's actually...
...basically it. UEKRONGTHAM: Part of that relaxation could also be economically driven, because the government has expressly said that it wants to increase the GDP from the media sector by a certain percentage, and part of that is that they need to be seen as allowing freedom and creativity. TAN: Yeah, Singapore is quite uptight in some senses. But I think the government is realizing that. Education has a lot to do with that as well - the kids of this generation are so in touch with everything. With the Internet and all that, it's so easy for them...
...struggle for everlasting glory and honor, a fight to the death. The task was simple: Eat twelve chickwiches in twelve dining halls (and at least one bun). The competitors were not brawny, hulking men but two petite women: Katherine Y. Tan ’10 and Michela C. DeSantis ’10.DeSantis, who had never eaten a chickwich before in her life, took on the Challenge to make up for missing out on the Harvard-Yale Chicken Wing Eating Contest.Tan’s chickwich philosophy was simple: “I’ll just eat them slowly...
...summer, on my first day of work as an intern at Men’s Vogue, my best outfit consisted of a pair of Dolce & Gabbana navy-blue trousers, a thin wispy dress shirt by Ralph Lauren (worn with a silk knit tie), and a pair of Valentino grayish-tan lace-ups that I got for free when my PR exec boss of the previous summer told me “buy something for yourself” at the Barney’s warehouse sale. Today, when I think about all the changes I’ve had in college?...