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她扮男人年半騙倒全世界

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她扮男人年半騙倒全世界 涉盜兄身分偷竊定罪 法官警方懵然 (明報) 06月 14日 星期四 05:05AM
【明報專訊】16歲少女於一年半內涉一直「女扮男生」，偷去在理工大學 念書的胞兄的身分證見工，獲永安百貨聘任為售貨員，其間「他」在公司偷竊被捕檢控上庭，過程中完全騙過拘捕「他」的警員法, 庭職員及法官，直至案件完結，「他」被判罰款，都無人發現其女兒身。這宗很普通的偷竊案年初經本報獨家報道後，被告的胞兄隨即被理大質詢，惟當時他仍然不知道其身分長期被胞妹盜用，更曾致電本報查詢，輾轉下才揭發事件。
案件昨日提堂。一頭短髮的女被告吳俊薇（現年18歲），昨日身穿粉紅色恤衫出庭，無論樣貌、聲線或打扮都像個小男生。她否認使用他人身分證、誤導警務人員及意圖妨礙司法公正罪，案件8月17日開審，控方將傳召4名證人，包括被親妹冒充身分的被告胞兄吳俊榮。
據曾經在法庭跟被告接觸的人形容，被告對上一次出庭，無論樣貌、聲音、打扮及行為均與男孩子無分別，因此得悉被告是女性後，感到十分驚訝。
以哥哥身分證見工 永安聘用
控罪指出，被告於2005年6月10日在北角英皇道東達中心4樓，無合理辯解而使用其兄吳俊榮的身分證，於今年1月6日在中環 海旁警署內誤導鄧姓警員，聲稱自己是其兄吳俊榮（21歲），以及被控於今年1月26日至2月23日期間，假冒兄長，作出傾向並意圖妨礙司法公正的作為。
據悉，首項控罪指被告涉嫌於05年間偷取兄長吳俊榮的身分證，同年6月10日使用該身分證假冒哥哥見工。其後，被告涉冒充兄長在中環永安分店兼職售貨員，在專櫃推銷產品，但店方一直無發現被告的真正身分。
直至去年12月2日，被告為了購買一個2080元的Polo袋，在永安百貨另一個專櫃內偷取9張共值450元的永安現金券，即日使用其中5張，在百貨公司內購買上述名牌袋。
專櫃職員後來發現失竊，永安職員隨即調查遺失現金券的號碼，查出被告使用有關現金券，同時被Polo的售貨員認出被告同在永安內工作。但被告當時向公司辯稱該批現金券屬於其嬸嬸，公司後來報警。
寓所搜現金券 仍未揭身分
被告於今年1月6日到中環海旁警署自首，被告涉仍向拘捕「他」的鄧姓警員自稱是「吳俊榮」。警方一直不虞有詐，至同日到被告寓所搜出4張永安現金券，仍未揭發被告的身分。
被告於同月20日遭落案起訴偷竊罪，26日首次上庭，當時「他」仍以「吳俊榮」的身分否認控罪，而法官、主控官、律師及警員無一發現被告是女性。
2月23日，被告在案件再次提訊時，仍在庭上聲稱自己是吳俊榮，承認偷竊罪，更透過代表律師指自己於理大就讀一年級，又指因為家貧才兼職售貨員，卻因一時貪念犯案。裁判官當時批評被告「不應注重物質」，判罰款500元。
當日，本報記者獨家報道有關案件，理大讀過本報的報道後，隨即向被告胞兄吳俊榮查問。在這一年多期間，吳一直不知道被偷取了身分證，經校方一問，他即致電本報要求澄清，據悉，後來他在輾轉間查問妹妹，才揭發事件並決定報警。控方昨日透露，吳俊榮將出庭指證被告。
【案件編號﹕ESCC 2700/07】

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"Azhanti High Lightning" Opening

This guy...... Simon Birch, his work touches my heart.
Have you ever had a feeling that, when you look into someone's work, you find your own feeling in it?
It sounds ridiculous, but is actually the truth.
A billion words.


Simon Birch, thank you!


























“Azhanti High Lightning”
A show to be presented at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), in support of the Singapore Arts Festival 2007
1 June - 5 July 2007
NAFA Gallery (Galleries 1 & 2)

Artist Simon Birch has created “Azhanti High Lightning”, one of the most ambitious multiple media projects ever undertaken at NAFA Gallery. The Gallery will be reconstructed into a dramatic, innovative and immersive piece of art for this show that will run from 1 June to 5 July 2007. This will also be Simon’s first institutional show as artist and curator. Leading Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya will also contribute additional work. NAFA is pleased to be presenting the event as part of the visual arts programme at the Singapore Arts Festival (SAF) 2007, in support of a call by the National Arts Council for cross promotion and collaboration from the various arts/education institutions within the civic district.

The NAFA Gallery will be converted into seven parts representing the seven stages of life from birth until death. The viewer will be led through blackened rooms representing a journey that interplays visual and auditory installations including sculpture, live performance, a 360 degree film theatre, paintings and photography.

The title of the show, “Azhanti High Lightning,” is the name of a fictional space craft. It is intended to represent the space we inhabit, where we exist as a product of chance and circumstance, or perhaps as a product of design; where the only thing that is certain is an end. (Please refer to Annex 2 for more details)

Bridget Tracy Tan, Director of Art & Corporate Knowledge said, "So much has been emphasised about the divide between art and technology, as though the two were mutually exclusive, in as much as 'tradition' and 'innovation' appear unable to successfully mix and bring about substantive progress in art-making today. The contemporary age is not just media specific, as contemporary historians and critics may offer. Azhanti High Lightning as a multiple media installation that assimilates art-objects from paintings and the sculptural to photography, film and video, reinforces to us the compound nature of our aesthetic sensibility.”

She added, “We receive and appreciate art in so many different ways, all of which inform and enrich each other considerably. When an ambitious project of such a scale comes to us full pelt in all directions, we are forced to reckon with our instincts: our fears, our passions, our reactive emotions, our flight or fight. An aesthetic intervention is precisely that, something that enters our space (as we enter theirs) and brings us to an altered state of being extraordinarily alive. All art should aspire to have this energy, this spirit."

Simon Birch explains, “It’s a great opportunity to curate at a space such as this. To be able to execute the freedom of my imagination in such an impressive gallery is very exciting. The theme for the show is about sudden and unexpected change, change that has a lasting affect on the individual or an entire culture. It is about evolution and inevitability. I believe the theme also has much resonance in contemporary Asian society and universally in the life of the individual.”

The exhibition will consist of seven distinct areas housed within the main 50-meter long gallery at NAFA (combining both galleries 1 & 2). To achieve this, the artist has fabricated what can be described as a film set. Within the gallery space is a series of interlocking rooms ranging in size from a few meters square to the largest being 81-meters square and 4.2-meters tall, and displays ranging from sculpture, live performance, a 360 degree film theatre, paintings and photography. Please refer to Annex 3 for images (high-resolution file for these images are available upon request).

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with NEC, Helutrans Artmove, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and DHL Express. NEC is sponsoring the use of its projectors to put on view the visual dynamics intrinsic to the fast paced, ultra sensitive concept of the works, while Helutrans Artmove is sponsoring the local handling and freight movement.

DHL Express, as the official logistics provider for the Azhanti High Lighting Exhibition, has made it possible for visitors to be greeted by a sculpture of the head of Galactacus. An introduction to the exhibition, the head sets the scene for the whole exhibition, representing the first figure to enter earth’s atmosphere. DHL strongly believes that such platforms play an important part in remaking Singapore into a more culturally-vibrant city, and support will continue to grow for such aspirations and innovative collaborations with the aim of bringing more talents closer to our community.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is a supporting organisation in this project through funding and administration in Hong Kong, and represents the artists Simon Birch and Wing Shya. 10 Chancery Lane Gallery is a driving force in contemporary culture in Hong Kong and is one of the city’s most popular private galleries. The gallery is international in scope and represents artists from Asia and the West. Its exhibition programme includes a complete spectrum of media - paintings, photography, sculpture, performance, installations and digital production.

The Singapore Arts Festival is one of the leading international arts festivals known for its bold and innovative artistic collaborations at the cutting-edge of contemporary arts with a distinctive Asian flavour. Established as a national celebration for the arts, the Festival offers a myriad showcase of world-class and internationally-acclaimed arts productions, and has a strong trademark for presenting several world and Asian premieres. The Festival turns 30 and sees its 21st edition this year. In the last 30 years, it has played a catalytic and strategic role in developing audiences, professionalising arts practice, spawning new interests and creating spin-offs for the arts.


Everybody in Singapore should go there and have a look.
Everybody not in Singapore...... should also go there and have a look, like me!
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