How Singlish Kena Commodified


art and culture

(These are a set of notes and fragments for an essay I intend to write about Singlish) Let’s take a minute to go back to 1999. It seems like such a quaint time, on retrospect. The Euro was established. Bill Clinton was the POTUS, and Columbine shootings shocked the world, Napster and MSN Messenger make their […]

April 22, 2017

Status Symbols


art and culture

Status in Singapore connections family office / wealth management / personal bankers access to private jets, yachts length of address ownership of capital inheritance type of credit card flying first class elite alma maters high % of degrees in the family private/expensive childhood education country club membership(s) employing a full-time chauffeur frequent coffee at fullerton […]

April 22, 2017