By David Boey
Was pleasantly [emphasis mine] surprised to see that photographer Ang Song Nian was allowed to take pictures of the oil palm plantation on Pulau Tekong, Singapore's largest offshore island which is exclusively used by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
I have yet to see such a direct reference between oil palm plantations in an SAF training area and those in Malaysia. The SAF also maintains rubber plantations on Tekong and mainland Singapore for its ground forces to stage war games.
The pictures will be part of an art show titled Imagine Malaysia.
The text of the Life! story reads:"Award-winning photographers Robert Zhao and Ang Song Nian both depict the uneasy relationship between the two countries through photographs laden with strong visual puns and symbols.
"Zhao's work features a lion and tiger while Ang's photograph diptych features what look like similar images.
"But one is a Malaysian oil palm plantation, the other is Pulau Tekong, the training site of Singapore's pool of soldiers in the event of war."
A comment from a reader:
They know. We know that they know. We pretend that they dun know that we know they know.
This main stream media article is not meant for malaysian's consumption. It's for "National Education" purpose and for a certain "BIG Country" personnel monitoring our main stream media.
The two, ... they are still at it? Good ...
06 August 2011
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