Dooms Day is here!!!???

Today - well, is was yeseterday as this is past midnite - was Meet the People Session by the MP.

The MP on duty was Dr Ong Seh Hong, very personable and pro-active. He was awared of my present plight as i have previously cc my email to him when i wrote to SM Goh.

He was quick to offer to write to the Minister of MICA. i was surely please to hear but at the same time doubtful of any out come as the Honorable Minister have previously intervened fruitlessly.

However, there is no harm trying again.

i requested him to put in 2 key points in his letter of appeal on my behalf.

1] Internationalisation/Globalisation.
In this age of Globalisation, irregardless of whatever trade/profession one is in, there is a constant need to travel. This the universal law at work and the world is getting smaller and smaller, and more closely connected and knited. For artists to have some international exposures and reputes, artists cannot but have to move and have studios and spend time beyond his shore. To deny this is myopic! Not supporting this is mismanagement!

So how can one balance/justify the use?

2] i will spend at least half of my time in Singapore.
NAC claims that this is a 'heavily subsidised' premise with tax payers money. Hence, it has to justify its uses as the premises is 'underused'. It is not my duty to reveal how underused the TKS by other artists. But i can declare that while i was not travelling previously, i was 24 hours at the studio. May i dare say humbly and reservedly, the time i spent/will spend in TKS are far more than many if not most of the other 30 odd artists.

i had even argued for a CCTV to be installed to monitor the traffic in the premise, but NAC is not interested in the whole truth. Refer item 4 - http://tankwankliang.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-reply-to-director-13-nov-07-re-telok.html

If this fail, i am afraid i have to put my Collection - The Goh Chok Tong Collection [for detail, pls refer - http://tankwankliang.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-third-letter-to-my-mp-07-oct-07-re.html] into a bonfire.

i will set is date for the BONFIRE to be tentatively on the 15th April as the execution date of the Writ of Possession is on the 17th!

It is 2am and this lump on top of my ballooned head is getting heavier and larger!

Will this be another sleepless nite?!?