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Friday, March 11, 2005
 
Youth Creativity
The government is going to encourage creativity in Singaporean youths by dedicating a plot of land in Orchard to them. This area will be larger than the current Youth Park (Never heard of that? Apathetic youth, you.), and "youth all over the world and tourists will say it's a must-see sight in Singapore". To do that, the government "will get views of the young on what they want to see there and activities they want conducted there". Then "designers, architects and businessmen" will step in and "ensure that this place is commercially viable, exciting, interesting and ultimately contribute to the overall attractions that Orchard Road will have".

Since this area is smack in the middle of The Premier Tourist Revenue Generation Street, there must understandably be some limits. First, there should be no jumping off buildings like what this Bedok South Secondary youth did. You might injure your ankle, or worse, get your teacher into hot soup for not keeping an eye on you. Next, you also cannot taupok your peers. You might poke out their eyes, inflict grievous injury to their behinds, inadvertently (or purposely) molest them, cause them to asphyxiate. Even worse, you might cause irritated parents from a Premier JC In the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Area to write blistering letters to the $trait$ Time$. We don't want that happening. Thirdly, you also cannot be foul-mouthed like a certain NMP. You cannot say "shit" and "rubbish" and other unparliamentary words, otherwise you risk getting spanked by the whip. This automatically means cannot spray paint foul words ok? Scrap that. No spray paint period. This is Premier Tourist Revenue Generation Street. Got an image to uphold.
Other than these (and the ten thousand rules we will add later), youths can feel free to be creative!

I think I'm considered a youth (because I'm still watched by PAPa), and it's my guess that this plot of land will turn out to be as lifeless as Speaker's Corner (Never heard of that? Pragmatic youth, you...). You don't set aside land for creativity. You don't plan for creativity. You don't make creativity the slave of commercial viability. You don't force creativity to conform to the charms of The Premier Tourist Revenue Generation Street. You don't market creativity like you would a tourist attraction. Creativity blossoms in a grain of sand, in a wild flower. Carefully engineered parks, plans, blueprints, or commercial viability often end up stifling that which it seeks to promote in the first place.

Links
Cheeky shows some creativity. Prime Time Morning Revamped and The Forum Incident. Wannabe Lawyer demonstrates how Uni life can weigh down creativity. Glad I'm not in Law afterall.

Posted by The Facetious Cap'n Intrepid at 10:58 PM |  

5 Comments

Youth Park? Isn't that the place those skateboarding/rollerblading punks congregate?

"youth all over the world and tourists will say it's a must-see sight in Singapore" Hah, another bloody tall order to fill. Wah lau, set their sights lower lah. Even getting our own Singaporeans' adoration will be an almost veritcal climb I reckon.

Hah, i can imagine a number of shops popping up there - a couple of fast-food outlets. A spray paint specialist shop. Rent-a-wall spray painting Co. Risk-your-neck-no-further skateboarding/rollerblading school And they better put a small police post there in case them hot-blooded decide to "squabble" or spray anti-establishment slogans.

That Bedok kid is an ass lah hahah. But hope he doesn't get "worked up" in his 20 storey flat heh.
Premier? Just say RJC lah. Hah, can't he wait until his son break a rib before complaining? Fusspot.

ahfu | 3/13/2005 11:23:00 AM | Permalink |  

Youth Park? Isn't that the place those skateboarding/rollerblading punks congregate?

"youth all over the world and tourists will say it's a must-see sight in Singapore" Hah, another bloody tall order to fill. Wah lau, set their sights lower lah. Even getting our own Singaporeans' adoration will be an almost veritcal climb I reckon.

Hah, i can imagine a number of shops popping up there - a couple of fast-food outlets. A spray paint specialist shop. Rent-a-wall spray painting Co. Risk-your-neck-no-further skateboarding/rollerblading school And they better put a small police post there in case them hot-blooded decide to "squabble" or spray anti-establishment slogans.

That Bedok kid is an ass lah hahah. But hope he doesn't get "worked up" in his 20 storey flat heh.
Premier? Just say RJC lah. Hah, can't he wait until his son break a rib before complaining? Fusspot.

ahfu | 3/13/2005 11:23:00 AM | Permalink |  

Youth Park? Isn't that the place those skateboarding/rollerblading punks congregate?

"youth all over the world and tourists will say it's a must-see sight in Singapore" Hah, another bloody tall order to fill. Wah lau, set their sights lower lah. Even getting our own Singaporeans' adoration will be an almost veritcal climb I reckon.

Hah, i can imagine a number of shops popping up there - a couple of fast-food outlets. A spray paint specialist shop. Rent-a-wall spray painting Co. Risk-your-neck-no-further skateboarding/rollerblading school And they better put a small police post there in case them hot-blooded decide to "squabble" or spray anti-establishment slogans.

That Bedok kid is an ass lah hahah. But hope he doesn't get "worked up" in his 20 storey flat heh.
Premier? Just say RJC lah. Hah, can't he wait until his son break a rib before complaining? Fusspot.

ahfu | 3/13/2005 11:23:00 AM | Permalink |  

... thank you spammer >.<

rollerblading is so cliche leh. unoriginal??

The Facetious Cap'n Intrepid | 3/14/2005 10:47:00 PM | Permalink |  

cliché eh? Yeah suppose so, I dun even know what those punks do anymore. Break dancing? Juggling?(2 activities I saw on the way to the esplanade)Bike stunts? Freestyle soccer tricks? But isn't there a Mcdonalds where the people can go around in rollerblades or something? Darn, my memory is so frail these days:P

ahfu | 3/15/2005 08:39:00 AM | Permalink |  

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