“All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man”

- Bernard Berenson
(American art critic, 1865-1959)

Why I believe in the Performing Arts.

… how content containing profanity, dealing with human sexuality, drug use, the fallacies of tradition etc is labelled ‘Adult’, yet in reality they are topics that aren’t exclusively the domain of adults.

Go out into the real world and you’ll find adolescents spewing expletives just out of any adult’s earshot. You’ll find teens not just having sex, but also comparing notes on its many facets… positions, protection, partners, places… Talking about weed, getting wasted, the finer points of rolling your own… About how they want to date and co-habit while their parents want to arrange everything in their matrimony, even their partner.

There is a collective understanding by those within a generation that this is indeed what’s going on in the world around them and it’s a surprise to none. Yet to reveal the truth to those from another generation is considered ‘asking for trouble’.

So the end result is that you don’t show adults ‘adult content’ for fear of freaking adults out.

I admire your strength,
The way you look at the world and not be disheartened

I admire your confidence,
The way you assert your right to be who you are

I admire your flair for caring,
The way you pockmark my apprehensive world with serenity

I admire you for the woman, lady and little girl that you are.

By CHELSEA L.Y. NG

KUALA LUMPUR: Prominent educationist Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing and wife Puan Sri Tessie Lim ended their 21-year marriage amicably yesterday with a divorce settlement that included an RM11.65mil cash payment.

High Court Judicial Commissioner Aziah Ali granted the order for divorce in chambers with decree nisi – a decree issued on a first petition for divorce that becomes absolute at a later date, in this case in three months’ time.

If no issues crop up in the meantime, the divorce will automatically be affirmed.

According to the joint petition for divorce filed on Dec 11, 2006, Lim and Tessie had been living separately since March last year.

Lim, 61, and Tessie Louise Weller, 44, were married on Nov 18, 1986 in Petaling Jaya.

The couple has a 20-year-old daughter Tiffanee Marie Lim.

Lim also has a 25-year-old son, Lim Kok Wing Jr, from a previous marriage.

According to the petition, Lim had agreed to hand over RM11,650,000 in cash to Tessie as a one-off alimony payment, and as part of the divorce settlement.

Other terms of the settlement were not made available.

I SO SO SO pity the man walking around named Lim Kok Wing Jr. Seriously.