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An Interview with Dr. Georgia Lee
Wanna know what it's like to be a socialite in Singapore? HOOKED chats up with Dr. Lee, a prominent figure in Singapore's high society, to find that socialites need not be all about play and no work. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
NUS Arts Festival Coverage
HOOKED reviews some of the top performances held during the recently concluded festival, including Love Is In The Air opening concert, Hip Hop Night '08, Terpsichore 2008: __:59 dance showcase, as well as I Left My Heart At Outram Park KR hall production. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
Cleo Bachelors Finals Party 2008 - School's out!
Every self-respecting lady should arm herself with a man worthy of her. HOOKED troops down to the party in search of the most eligible man for you. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
An Evening with Broken Social Scene
Less than half of its contingent came, yet Broken Social Scene has doubled the expectations. HOOKED spends an evening with these talented musicians for a night of hyper-kinetic fun. |
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CAMPUSRAVE
Fake it 'til you make it:
The Elitist Complex
Does plastering yourself with branded clothing alleviate your social status? With the rising number of brand-conscious upstarts seen around campus, HOOKED attempts to make sense of such atas behaviour. |
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REALLIFE
Living the High Life:
Not All About Money
What is it that separates the bourgeoisie from the aristocrats? HOOKED explains why cold, hard cash is not enough to buy your way into the high society. |
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HE SAYS SHE SAYS
How Low Would You Go?
They say love can transcend all boundaries, but can it really overcome class differences? HOOKED examines how important it is to have an equal footing in a relationship between He and She. |
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GLAMOURUS
Fashionable Elites or Elitist Fashion?
Fashion may be part and parcel of our lives, yet it still seems elusive to most of us. Is Fashion only for the elites? Let HOOKED's resident fashionista tell you what it takes to get on the Fashion highway. |
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FOODTALK
Atas Makan Places
Check out HOOKED's list of posh restaurants to see and be seen in! Don't be silly; it has nothing to do with how good the food taste. |
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E-REVIEWS
The Atas Guide to Museum-Hopping in Singapore
We don't only review movies and albums. This time, HOOKED assesses our local museums where you could cultivate the atas soul in you. |
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E-REVIEWS
Crows Zero: Of Blood-thumping Violence
If being refined is not for you, how about watching some blood and violence to release your pent-up frustration? |
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ETCETCETC
10 Ways To Bluff Your Way Into Being Atas
HOOKED teaches you how to fake your way into the upper class. Whether you make it or not, however, is another story altogether. |
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Written by Rachel Xu
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Page 1 of 2 Going green has been invading our senses recently. With Live Earth concerts and bags screaming environmental-friendly slogans becoming It bags, it has become rather difficult to sidestep the issue.
Before all of us start to pledge our allegiance to environmental causes, HOOKED thinks it's important that we first try to understand the complexities masked under the word - environmentalism.
The first step in our education was courtesy of the recent Interdisciplinary Forum on Global Warming and Climate Change, organised by NUSSU S.A.V.E (Students Against Violation of the Earth).
This forum was part of the fringe events in preparation for the Green Carnival in NUS on 22nd to 24th October, which has the primary aim of enlightening participants towards the issue of environmentalism through various activities and events.
 The Interdisciplinary Forum, which boasted numerous speakers with impressive credentials, offered well-formulated perspectives regarding the issues of global warming and climate change.
Truth to be told, a forum discussing such a content-heavy issue over a span of four hours seemed rather daunting initially. Surprisingly enough, the speakers managed to ease their audience into a rather relaxed mood while dispensing valuable information with regard to the topics.
Despite the fact that the event was held on 26th September, in the midst of our mid-term break, the lecture theatre was (collective gasp) filled with environmental enthusiasts and a splatter of curious-minds. Who would have thought there was a significant number of environmental activists and activist-wannabes among us who willingly shrugged off the idea of sleeping in during the break?
Read on to find out why those four hours of sacrificed sleep was pretty much worth it.
Speaker 1: Associate Professor Jeffrey Philip, Obbard
Professor Obbard is part of the NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute and is an active environmentalist. Shedding light on the issues of global warming and climate change from a geographical perspective, he effectively managed to jolt the audience awake with his frightening statistics, which alluded that Armageddon will not be too far off in the future.
One of the many frightening facts presented was that the Artic ice sheet has seen an astounding decrease of 30% in volume over a period of two years. Definitely an unnerving thought.
Aside from presenting the hard facts and statistics, Professor Obbard drove home the message that humans are to blame for the state of our environmental degradation.
He emphasized that the rapid growth rate of our excessive consumption is a defect that ought to be addressed as soon as possible. This, he feels, could possibly be done through researching sustainable development such as conservation and the development of nuclear energy.
Yes, nuclear energy folks. Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Speaker 2: Dr Scott Valentine
Dr Valentine broached the topic of the causes of global warming and evaluated the alternative methods that have been proposed to curb the degradation of the environment.
Giving a critical analysis peppered with good humor, Dr Valentine managed to highlight the point that global warming is a symptom of excessive consumption that is rampant in present society. Substantiating this argument, he highlighted the statistics that the area of rainforests disappearing each year amounts to an approximate 700 Singapore(s)!
Seriously people, start recycling your paper.
If that wasn't shocking enough, he went on to evaluate the alternative methods advocated by environmentalists and stated that many of these possibilities require a jaw-dropping budget and vast amounts of raw materials.
Leaving many in the audience rather depressed, Dr Valentine's presentation was on hindsight the most frank of the lot because it pinpointed that finding possible replacements for energy is but an excuse for us to continue with our terribly wasteful consumption habits.
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