The Orient Pearl
TURQUOISE GUITAR - $79
Or the black one. Hahaha, crazy that I choose a guitar by colour and not by how it sounds.
Luqman came up with this idea that malays in Singapore are like the african americans in .. well, America. Cause the blacks there are mostly delinquents, and have their own style and have this culture that's really different from the rest. Much like most of the teenage mats in our country. It seems to be true. But I have alot of respects for mats cause I think alot of them have some kind of musical background and they have this style which is kinda cool. (Don't say my polka dotted shoes are mat-oriented please. hahaha) I think they're like closest to the american white kids. And this culture exchange thing that their doing really spooks me sometimes. Haha.
Like our lecturer today. He said, "I look at you all and you all dress like Californian undergraduates. None of you came in with a sarong or a cheongsam or something," And that's true. Okay, not that the girls won't be a laughing stock if they wore something like that to school. But we've become really 'westernized'. And he says it's scary as batch by batch he had taught for 18 years, we're becoming more and more like the westerners. And I don't like that. Honestly speaking, I feel like I dress kinda like an American too, but I'm Singaporean.
And our lecturer said, "How can you stand out to be Singaporean? When you go for a job interview with another Malaysian designer, what makes you more cultural than him in the way you dress and speak and carry your ideals?
Looking at our society and the design people in it. We're becoming all banana-ish and we've forgotten we're basically - yellow, light brown and dark brown people. It might seem like no big deal cause Ohhh, the other designer wears all black cause it's cool. But at the end of the day, we are the people we're made to be. God made us unique and in different races for a reason. And dressing like someone 5000 miles on the other side of the world isn't exactly being proud about our own racial backgrounds and stuff.
It's more than that. It's whether we're admitting that we don't have a culture, or that we do. Why do we follow a lifestyle from a country that pales in comparison to the thousands we have in our continent? There's the big question that no one really knows haha.
So I think I'm gonna have more oriental inspired stuff and don't think chinesey people are people I can't communicate to. Fashion designers with the dream of creating real modern asian fashion should really be applauded.