Catching the blogging train…

My name is Alice. When I introduce myself to others, they either ask how Wonderland is, or start singing “Who the *6+# is Alice?!”… That is a good question… Who is Alice and is she in Wonderland?

Sometimes the grittiness of everyday life make me desire fantasy… and indeed, we fantasize a lot in the modern world. We remake ourselves into ideal images through the clothes that we wear, the movies we watch, the books we read and the roles we play. But it is not just through cultural consumption that we create images of ourselves in our fragmented worlds. When we wash off the make-up, turn off our emails, switch off the tv, and crawl into our beds at the end of the day, we are alone again, confronted with a ‘myself’ that we live all the time… a ‘myself’ we cannot run away from.

Who are we? What is reality, and how do we construct it? Should we base it on ideals, or stick to pragmatic reality? Are we more than the sum of our senses… do we have spirits, is there a God? Is there more to life than eating, drinking, achieving, performing, playing, dying? Before my existence ends, should I structure my life according to a CV? Or through social norms (“get married, not-so-young lady!”)? Why does it seem like everyone else lives on a different plane than I do? Am I alone?

This is a blog site of images and reflections… fragments of a self called Alice, fragments of my life in Malaysia and Singapore which have become my ‘bases’ in this global, interconnected world. At the end of the day only God knows who ‘Alice’ is, this truth is hidden even from me.

Lets journey to fantasyland together…