Saturday, July 19, 2008

:(

Get well soon, please.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Graveyards and dance-offs.

Last weekend has got to be one of the best ones I've had so far this whole summer, ever. He finally came, and so did Marie (on a spontaneous combustion) and we did the whole shebang of random touristy stuff... like walking along Queensbay's stretch of very dirty, rubbish stench beach strip at 7am, visiting the grave of Francis Light, eating Mee CRC (totally random and tak sedap!) and the 'infamous' Penang Road chendol (the one from section 17 tastes wayyy better), hanging out in his big hotel room in the dodgy sort of red light district part of the island and having 'drunken' dance-offs with ringtones from his and Marie's cellphones... overall it was really, really fun and I'm so glad they came all the way from KL to spend the weekend with me. Of course it was really sad when they left but I guess all good things must come to and end.. (like my summer here.. where, where in the world did 8 weeks of my life go to??)

I can't seem to find my camera anywhere and I took loads of underexposed shots on my SLR, so those pictures would need to be scanned.. well later lah when I'm rajin. I haven't even packed for Sydney and we're leaving at 7-ish pm tomorrow... la di da.. yes my 22 year old brother is getting married this Thursday... and in a whirlwind of events, my puny older brother is also planning to jump on the bandwagon soon...


Anyway, I don't need to be told again and again about...some random fact. It makes my stomach churn, thinking about consequences of the rushed decisions I had to make before... like why didn't you tell me earlier so I could have made better arrangements for myself? I don't know how you want me to react or respond, am I supposed to be sad? Overjoyed? Hopeful? What? If that is the case then stop repeating yourself. Because I get it already.

On a totally different note, I felt really god-awful thinking of all the mean things I've said, and the nit-picking on itsy bitsy things that hardly even matter... because I'm being put up as a beneficiary for (the insurance of) a particular person who is very near, and dear to me.. and I know it's not really a big deal or whatever because I could just be a name to fill up a blank but coming from this person it means a whole lot. It made me almost want to cry, and count my every blessing that our paths crossed. Mistakes may have been made, and certain error in judgements may have been terrifyingly hurtful and heartbreaking, but this makes it up in every way possible.

Thank you.







Monday, July 07, 2008

le grave tigre

Boring, random updates..
We went to the zoo last Saturday, just for kicks..
the trip was to compensate not taking the train to Singapore to catch SATC (pffft, how can the zoo ever compare? Sheesh) This tiger looked so sad, it kept swimming closer and closer to us, peering with its big (scary) eyes. Honestly Zoo Negara hasn't changed one bit since like, gazillion years ago. The animals look so very depressed, and we covered the entire area in less than two hours... with a minor interruption by a phonecall from his ex (hello, tolong kacau orang lain, can or not?), it was otherwise, fun trying to break the mundane weekend routine of going to 1-U to eat, tengok movie, balik tido...

Other than that, I had to present my short film idea at the Finas board meeting (twisting my tongue trying to pitch in comprehensive bahasa) and finally I have my money woes at bay now, they're going to give me an obscene amount of money to make my second year film, so joy to me! Now that's settled, I'll just have to start, uh, writing my script... with money being plugged, the pressure just keeps on mounting...
AAAARGH.

So on Sunday I woke up at 5.30am to follow him to one of his many runs at Dataran Merdeka, and when we came back we bathed a very annoyed cat, much to his chagrin. At least now he smells nice, his ears and paws clean... of course he STILL chose to poop NEXT to his litter box instead of in it. What vengeful creatures... but yesterday while buying the sand for the litter box I totally fell in love with this little kitty who kept miowing from its little cage, wanting to be scooped out and be smothered with hugs.. oh well. When I come back for good I'm going to get another cat, so Gondry won't be so spoilt rotten (like he is now, makan sendiri also donwan) Later we met up with Marie, Daniel for dinner at Uptown and then Sunway for random lepaking..

FIVE MORE WEEKS je more duduk rumah lagi!!! So sad thinking about how MUCH work I've managed to accomplish.. tsk. Damn depressing. Oh well.
Next week is 5 days in Sydney and my mission is to find CHEAP, WATER PROOF, NICE boots. And when I get back to New York I'm going to throw those 14 dollar good for nothing pair in the bin for good.

Other than that, nothing much has happened.. I hope to catch Toe next month, they're almost as great as EITS (which I missed) and TWKUA is opening for them, so that's good I guess...

Tomorrow is meeting with the dean from UiTM... don't know how that will go, I just hope I'll find the place on time..
OK rambling nonsensical, I better cut this short while I can.


Thursday, July 03, 2008

Now who would have thought...

That Melanie was fighting for her mother's freedom, a hostage held for 6 years by FARC, Colombia’s oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency... no wonder she never spoke of her mother, or the reasons why she was always missing class to go back to France on 'family matters'. And looking at footages of her on BBC and standing beside the French president, it's no surprise why she appears so calm and composed, and mature beyond her years.

Silly me thought she was just a nice French/Colombian girl who liked drawing comics in her tiny notebook.
This revelation makes all the things I worry about seem petty and absolutely meaningless.

ahhh.

Why all this interest in my 3 year old documentary when I've made this crossover to narrative film, and Adem to purely character animation?

But it's all good.. I hope this is a sign of more to come.

BLESS!
(I am tired of all this jetsetting I just want to pig out and watch dvds all day long)