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East of West, West of East:“Lives and Time(s) in Singapore
19th October 2016
Adrian W J Kuah
Senior Research Fellow
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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It’s about time
Save time
(Don’t) Waste time
Make time
Mark time
Kill time
Stop time
Turn back time
Take your time
In time
Just in time
On time
Down time
Time out
Out of time
Time’s up
Time off
Good times
Bad times
End times
Where got time?
Timed out?
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Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
By Peter Hill
“Try staying awake until three in the morning and you will soon find you are so tired you can hardly think…Then stare at the sky and contemplate the vastness of the universe. Gradually you will turn into a lighthouse keeper. But take your time, for time is precious. There’s no hurry. There never is on a lighthouse…” (p. 49)
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From the “annihilation of space by time” (D Harvey, 1989)
to
the “annihilation of time by time”?
Is faster necessarily better?
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Time(s) of our lives
• Tempo (how fast a thing is)
• Periodicity (how often the thing happens)
• Timing (how the thing synchronises with other things)
• Duration (how long the thing lasts)
• Sequence (the order in which the thing occurs)
• Density (how many things are going on)
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