The St. James Power Station is, as the name implies, a former power station located near the Sentosa Gateway in Singapore. Instead of converting the power station into a gallery like the Tate Modern in London, St. James is now a multi-club venue that’s one of the bigger players in the nightclub scene here (google images link).
I’m a subscriber to their mailing list and each time they send an update out, it has some sort of wisdom in the subject line. Examples:
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
My fave today is: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” The question is, will there be the courage to remedy that mistake and the current lack of leadership? There’s two opportunities to fix things, one in 2010 and the other in 2012. One depends on the other to be successful…
Musings of a Food and Travel Addict