Putting a name to a face…

I was in Sculpting in Time last night, and ran into a Singaporean who is on exchange in Tsinghua right now. We wound up having a discussion about challenges facing Singapore right now – partly because I was reading Alain Vandenborre’s book, Proudly Singaporean at the time. I need to make it a bit clearer when I talk about this subject, on this blog as much as anywhere else, that even though I see problems and things I disagree with in Singapore and can be passionate about discussing them, I nevertheless like the place very much, and feel very attached to it! This is a roundabout way of getting to say that one thing I like is the strong Indian culture there. When I went back in January, pretty much the first thing I did was head up to Little India for a decent curry. I also decided I wanted to pick up some Indian music, which I always like listening to but know very little about. I went to the music section in Mustafa’s (but the offical site’s not very interesting – read this as well), and asked the attendant for a recommendation. He gave me a DVD of wedding songs, culled from various Bollywood films. Watching it back in China, I realised that the woman on the cover was also in many of the clips – and was absolutely stunning. I had no idea who she was, though, and no way to find out. Today, I was reading an online article from an Indian paper, and happened to click on to another page, to see a picture of the same actress… It turns out that she is Aishwarya Rai… Wow – that’s all I’m saying! (Picture from aishwaryaworld gallery). Aah, found this relatively recent CBS article…