Why we love flowers Things are just “things” — plain physical stuff that litter our material world — but humans have a relentless obsession for attaching deeper meaning and symbolic significance to the objects around us. We are sometimes manipulated by corporate powers into believing these stories of significance. For example, “Diamonds are forever” was an insistent marketing…
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Dry Season
Ah Xin started working in the provision shop to help her parents as a sprightly 10-year-old. Fifty years down the road today, she still bubbles with the good-natured charm of her childhood, supplying a colourful diversity of dried goods in her humble little space: dried red chilli, dried fish, dried mushrooms, dried chrysanthemum flowers, dried tofu… you…
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“…. be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!” We communicated using fragments of Mandarin that I know consisting mostly of 3 introductory sentences: “How are you?” (Ni hao!) “I speak a little!” (We hui shuo yidian dian) “I am a Singapore person.” (Wo shi xinjiapo ren) And then, in response to…
Budding Business
About 40 years ago as a teenage girl, Madam Soo started helping her mother collect flowers for a living. She recalls the back-breaking labour spent picking jasmine buds from morning till night, because they had to be plucked before they would blossom. When the government bought their garden in Lim Chu Kang to turn into an…
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