tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37644302012-01-30T11:07:00.220-08:00shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.comBlogger6121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-2044640161023491852010-05-13T10:24:00.000-07:002010-05-13T10:27:34.420-07:00

Fear grips you tight and doesn't let go. Lips dried, always thirsty.Where do we go from here?

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-48404819424281096862010-03-07T09:39:00.001-08:002010-03-07T09:39:36.489-08:00

Maybe it's time to close this blog.

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A friend all the way in Bournemouth very kindly set up a fund-raising site for my thesis film. :DAnd that, was the beginning of all the good things I hope will come as I start shooting in a week's time.So if you have some cash to spare, help me realise this film!

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I am totally freaking out right now.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-61445635805037619322009-12-17T01:55:00.000-08:002009-12-17T01:57:32.147-08:00

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shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-37914234495830019452009-12-08T03:09:00.000-08:002009-12-08T03:11:25.031-08:00

Paris!

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(via newyorkcanwait, photolittle)Only because they advocate the use of Helvetica.

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shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-8277231009705985992009-11-21T00:57:00.000-08:002009-11-21T01:16:03.915-08:00

But I'm also a filmmaker completing his education in a film school, and this dissertation of the spatial representation of Singapore Cinema I must write.

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Some thoughts on film censorship - Singapore style (via Alfian)Q: Anniversary has been passed uncut with a R21 rating. Is this what you’d expected and do you think this is the best case scenario given the subject matter?Alfian: I think this whole policy of rating homosexual content on the basis that it will 'promote' homosexuality is idiotic. There's no other word for it. It frames every film

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-43973327673504007222009-11-05T08:43:00.000-08:002009-11-06T04:41:38.818-08:00

We are currently opening a casting call for a thesis short film titled ‘In Labour’. Workshops and rehearsals will begin late December while the shoot is scheduled to commence at first week of February 2010.We are looking for:‘Zoe’• Female, 28-35 years old• Works in the photocopy shop in Singapore• Speaks Malaysian-accented Mandarin, Cantonese and Bahasa Melayu‘Purple’• Female, 25-32

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-15902767424513924662009-10-18T01:00:00.000-07:002009-11-08T08:58:56.037-08:00

Once in awhile, I like to put up a list of things I need to do.Thesis Paper on the relevance of social and cultural context in the cinematic city. TVC storyboard and pitch this week. Shooting in 3 weeks.Directing Exercise with the Musical Theatre students. Shooting in 2 weeks. Post Production for Documentary module, due in 3 weeks.Funding proposal for thesis film, due in 2 weeks. Casting opens

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-89173221635923199802009-10-16T10:02:00.000-07:002009-10-16T10:03:59.979-07:00

Something filled upmy heart with nothing,someone told me not to cry.But now that I'm older,my heart's colder,and I can see that it's a lie.I guess we'll just have to adjust.

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11:57:47 PM alfian: r u wearing the new clothes11:57:51 PM shoobs): havent yet11:57:54 PM shoobs): im doing the kitchen11:58:05 PM alfian: hahah ok tell me when you're done i wanna seeWednesday, 14 October 2009 | 12:0012:00:25 AM shoobs): check it holmes, im in my kitchen now12:00:40 AM shoobs): in my new clothes and new shades and new everything12:01:00 AM shoobs) and dont you love my bathroom12

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-3599093791885673532009-10-08T09:55:00.000-07:002009-10-08T10:05:48.223-07:00

So anyway, the film school head and the French Embassy are sending me to Poitier, west of France in December this year for the 32nd Les Rencontres Henri Langlois because National Day is screening as part of an Asian film school showcase. I can't wait because it's my first trip to Europe and I can visit Paris after that! Now I am thinking how long, and how much I can afford to stay.I have alot on

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-38166916048467494392009-09-27T09:43:00.000-07:002009-09-27T09:55:59.377-07:00

I cannot tell the difference, between what has changed and what has not. Perhaps everyone and everything is on the next page, repeating the same old. It feels like ending a scene and not knowing what should happen next.I should know these things, but I don't. It frustrates me that I have not a clue.It is the same thing. Nothing's changed. This felt like yesterday, and the day before yesterday.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-46521135749422377112009-09-18T10:25:00.000-07:002009-09-18T10:34:30.137-07:00

The Asian Film Symposium is on this weekend at the 5th Singapore Short Film Festival. The travelling short film series S-Express will be screened as well and National Day is screening as part of the Singapore leg this Sunday at 7pm! So buy your tickets now cos it's apparently selling fast. I'm going to attend the forum on film associations in Asia and catch some of the shorts I missed this

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-56093590646593226842009-09-14T22:47:00.000-07:002009-09-14T23:22:11.943-07:00

Yesterday, we sent off a friend at Pasir Ris Interchange. He is starting a new life in the army. After which, I walked through Tampines Central with a sense of unfamiliarity. The new mall has opened and I spent the afternoon looking for Uniqlo. Everything seemed so new. Even the walk through the bus interchange seemed different. Like I was recovering from a bout of selective dementia, I chose to

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-64101545245856004232009-07-26T10:40:00.000-07:002009-07-26T10:57:49.261-07:00

My last year in film school starts in a week. I feel like the holidays just swept me by in a limbo. I've worked and worked (though I've yet to see the money and I'm broke as holy hell.) and slept and ate. I've contemplated so many things but done nothing. I've only jogged a grand total of 4 times in 3 months. I still haven't quit smoking. I've done nothing remotely exciting or new. I've lost

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-50443891520542346972009-07-04T09:10:00.000-07:002009-07-05T01:18:00.684-07:00

Miss Apple singing River, Stay Away From My Door and Paper Bag.

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A month since holidays started (the real one, after China and The Lasalle Show) and I may have up-ed two pants size, coupled with a swollen face (I may have lost my jawline). Every single day I lazed in bed with my Mac plugged on 30 Rock (all three seasons, now on random repeats), North Korean propaganda videos on YouTube and the adorable sextuplets on Jon & Kate + 8 (my favourite is Aaden, the

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-49958097875806836922009-05-19T11:42:00.000-07:002009-06-01T00:08:29.503-07:00

Here it is!

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It is true, but it seems hypothetical since love is either never around or hiding somewhere.I'm going to miss Pinkdot, which I was really looking forward to. :(Sigh.Awful week.Flying off to my father's motherland in 8 hours and I'm still not packed.I don't know what to make of this trip.

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It was a crazy week of rushed submissions, late submissions thanks to a crashed hard disk (damn you Maxtor One Touch), sleepless nights, burning ten thousands of DVDs, and running from block to block to meet deadlines.Two more days and all is over for the school year!Next:1) Reservist (Major sigh)2) Hainan Island to soak up the sun and explore ancestral grounds.3) Attempt for the 7,2834th time to

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-91724014284525795712009-04-15T21:00:00.000-07:002009-04-15T21:01:54.825-07:00

My Second Year Short Film, National Day, will be screening at The Lasalle Show from 22nd May.More information coming your way. :)

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I've got no mood for anything else.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-91047538068337566952009-04-09T09:46:00.000-07:002009-04-09T10:05:06.548-07:00

My sleeping patterns are strange these days, possibly from a prolonged post-shoot fatigue.No longer am I the creature of nocturne; I find it impossible to stay past beyond 1:30am. My aching back screams bloody murder while my eyes droops and I tell myself to finish off the edit the next morning.I set my alarm for the morning and struggles to wake up, snoozing my phone away and curses under my

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-48876248783887325542009-04-04T03:31:00.000-07:002009-04-04T03:56:50.634-07:00

You wouldn't notice a thing or two if I were to disappear for a week, while I am always trying to make my presence felt.I am never good at playing games. Growing up, I would very much prefer collecting stamps over trying to win a game of catch at the school quadrangle. I had no body co-ordinations to excel in sports.Sometimes I feel sorry for myself.Perhaps subconsciously, I am killing it slowly

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-48716670877931374992009-03-18T20:52:00.000-07:002009-03-18T20:53:11.281-07:00

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It's alot scarier than I've thought.

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Must. Calm. Down.

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It was all for the better. Or worse.But now at least I see the more important things going back on track, and that is all that matters.

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Elizabeth. For Shanice's online shop.I need to start exercising.

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The tree outside my window was bare for months, and I pretended we were approaching winter when the winds were horrendously huge (or big, I don't know how else to describe wind.) last month.I looked out of the window today and it was blooming with yellow flowers. How pretty!And I'm so swarmed with work I don't know how else to start and the refusal to sit down and get things done is making me all

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-16076156997703058332009-02-23T09:28:00.000-08:002009-02-23T10:59:33.051-08:00

Big crowd irks me. New people scares me. Old friends, well, sometimes I don't know if I truly enjoy going back to the past. I really do enjoy the company of the people I hold dear to, now. Yet sometimes I fear if that has an expiry date.Yet I am afraid of the notion of solitary, the very idea of it being the inevitable when I grow old is dreadful. But I think, soon, I want to learn to be alone.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-36687826906752647092009-02-19T09:08:00.000-08:002009-02-19T09:13:27.114-08:00

Le sigh. Warming up to full steam ahead for the month of March.1) Rehearsals and Pre-Production for National Day.2) Multimedia Design for the BA (Hons) Acting graduation play, Invisibility.3) The wretched French Lieutenant's Woman reshoot exercise.4) Preparing for SIFF.5) Shooting National Day.I need some strength and anti-procrastination pills!

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-24676676569891106392009-02-10T08:38:00.000-08:002009-02-10T08:49:59.015-08:00

This is the tiring part when my body just refused to get work done. And I try to force myself out of everything and start over.

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shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-21256019176661433902009-01-14T09:46:00.000-08:002009-01-14T09:49:53.981-08:00

Visiting is the closing short film for the SMU Film Fest. This Friday, 7:30pm. Do come down!Tanjong Rhu is in the panorama for Berlinale. Woo hoo!Casting for National Day begins next week. Yay!

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The year started bleak. I assured myself it's just a small extension of the shithole that was 2008. It will be over soon.Meanwhile, I have no care for anything else except my well-being, school and above all, my craft. I've lost all desire for any romantic pursuits and careless liaisons. For now, at least.And I've removed that hyphen I adopted a few years ago.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-38519742927463870012008-12-26T21:32:00.001-08:002008-12-27T05:41:26.100-08:00

Punctuality was never my strongest suit, procrastination is. In fact, I excel in it. I have Sun's shoot tomorrow and I am supposed to be out getting a huge ass poster of Guan Yin Ma, and to continue the search for a fake tongue. While here I am, blogging. I had wanted to talk about keeping New Year resolutions, or rather, hoping it'd help to organise the train of thoughts in my head about being a

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-34469167661671573852008-12-09T22:17:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:36:23.386-08:00

December was supposed to be my well deserved holiday, but sigh, I don't even think I can go up to KL for a weekend.Internship at SIFF's been fun. The bad times didn't hit me that hard in a big way until I realised how difficult it is to secure sponsorships for the Festival.Pre-production for Sun's new short film, Dirty Bitch has started and it's possibly the most taxing since Boo's Tanjong Rhu.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-89657900780482280162008-12-01T01:17:00.000-08:002008-12-01T01:19:43.381-08:00

1. One of my greatest abilities is that I can write in the dark. Somehow I believe I am a genius.2. I must admit, I always try too hard to appear more intelligent than I really am.3. One of the first things I did during my residency: bought Robert Bresson’s Notes Sur Le Cinematographe, the French version. And I started to read it from cover to cover, without knowing much French. I had the strange

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-86890296294013980852008-11-24T06:40:00.000-08:002008-11-24T07:05:14.516-08:00

:)

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Boo's flying off to Bristol next week, and will be spending Christmas in New York. That means I will see him next year, when the holidays end and the new semester starts.I wonder how things will be like then.The past week was a case of losing track of the hour. Nights were spent editing, writing, having late night pratas at Al-Jalani or Red Bull stock-ups at Cheers. One more week and I'm done

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-27392935818668886432008-11-05T10:44:00.000-08:002008-11-05T10:54:28.609-08:00

I thought I was okay.But when I woke this time,There was nothing to take me back to sleep.There are nights when I'd suddenly miss the nightly rituals on the phone that would put us to sleep. Some days I wondered if all we had was just a temporal spatial dream, and then you walked out of it, and I have yet to leave. Or maybe you were never there.But thank you, M. For everything else.

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-24238576589738253872008-11-01T14:36:00.000-07:002008-11-01T14:39:44.353-07:00

It's been an awful weekend. Everything was not what I had planned for, or didn't plan for. I needed to talk to someone.Then I came home to an empty house and for the first time in a long while, I never felt more alone.

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After tonight, I'm determined to finish off the semester with extra dosage of discipline. One final essay, 3 major edits, a compilation of the semester's works, Short Circuit, the Level 2 Solo Screenings and my exchange application. No more nights out of skank and fun!Happy Deepavali.

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she's been standing around for 3 hours straight, with 3 more hours to go before she retires for the night. She sighs. The smell of Dunhill Reds musk the air as she walks towards another table of middle-aged men, their faces reddened with Guinness Stout. 3 more, and an extra mug, they told her. Lay Hoon nods and walks towards the drink counter. The men go into a boisterous fit of laughter as it

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I feel like half the load on my back (which by the way, is straining from carrying my backpack around town with my wretched macbook pro which weigh half a ton, stuffed in it.) is gone now that my freelancing works are finally seeing the end of the tunnel and I can move on with life. I cleared the mess on my desktop, hard drive, email inbox, table and mobile phone.Me can finally concentrate on

shu-minghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076002833265739421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764430.post-72416762950442876472008-09-29T07:57:00.002-07:002008-09-29T08:14:54.544-07:00

I tried to pull away, but the sheer strength pinning down on me was too much. I tried to scream, but I found myself squeaking, emotionally too exhausted to cry for help. I tried to run, but I found my legs rooted firmly to the cement floor left to dry. I closed, but it was forced open and everything started falling out. I never knew they were there.I wished it was just an interlude. Because I

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I may not be as strong as I'd like to think I am.

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Besides rushing my essay on Post-Neorealism in Italian Cinema that is due Monday, accompanied by a stack of readings sitting untouched on my table, I have a scene to reshoot:And amongst hundreds of other things due next week.

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I'm cranked up. Just go away.

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Across the causeway, the fifth Freedom Film Festival is running this weekend.I'd go if I wasn't flooded with work and shoots.(via Popagandhi)

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We're almost half way through the semester, and for the first time since I came to Lasalle, I finally feel like I'm really in film school, drowning in an avalanche of assignments. It's both exciting and scary at the same time, my adrenalin often halted with unnecessary distractions, yet nothing that cannot be continued with a deep puff of nicotine and a flask of home-made chin chow drink. I feel

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I need a day of seclusion to finish those damn video edits and move on with my life. I need my paychecks that are months overdue so that I can finally run my errands, get a haircut, pay back debts and fund my semestral short film. I need a talking organizer to keep track of dates - rehearsals, shoots, submissions, birthdays, departures. I need to be less sleepy after lunch.Ok back to work.

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The thing is, I've been incredibly lazy and severely unproductive. I'd rather lie on my bed and rot to my impending death for not meeting all these deadlines than get down to work. But it's an exciting semester, really. Perhaps eventually I will feel the rush but now it feels as though I no longer keep track of time. I'm aware of the day and not the date, that the week is coming to an end or when

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And when the crowd becomes your burdenAnd you've early closed your curtains,I'll wait by the backstage doorWhile you try to find the lines to speak your mindAnd pry it open, hoping for an encoreAnd if it gets too late, for me to waitIt's ok, don't need to say it.

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I'm tired. Exhausted. I wonder what it has all led me to, because right now, I'm not happy with what I'm seeing. Everything feels numb. When will this stop? Sometimes I may laugh wholeheartedly at myself, being completely self-deprecating like a tragic figure laughing in a comedy. But in truth, I despised myself. There is not even a tinge of self-pity. I know, because I've searched high and low.

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12 Lotus opens 14th August! Meanwhile,

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School is going to be fun this semester, I hope.

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Go get tickets for The Swordfish, then The Concubine. It's the opening play for this year's OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival, and it is honestly a whole theatre experience you should not miss. Opens tomorrow!Publicity videos that kept me up all night for the entire week.But I won't be sleeping early still. Got so many more videos to edit! :(

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I really need to sleep early cos the zits are popping out and my eyebags are getting heavier than my weight. But work is engulfing me and school has just started.Eat My School Shorts is screening my first year short film at House, tonight 8:30pm (and again on 09.09.08). So drop by if you're having dinner or drinks at the Dempsey area!

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I need to sleep. The week swam by with multiple deadlines and running around - literally running around. Fatigue set in last night when I caught a cold and a fever. It was awful. I kept waking up and hallucinated about things I cannot remember. My body still aches like holy fuck.Spillovers!KVLT launches today. Go read!

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There was no longer a conscious effort at some point to document the trip through my camera lens. I'd worry if there wasn’t enough light, or my composition was crap. I guess that’s why this post is kinda overdue, many of the photos turned out to be pretty uninspired. And I was lazy. I just wanted to soak up the sun, smile and smoke.Let’s start with Ha Long Bay. One of my favourite part of the

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It's not that I am batshit busy with work but I really want to run away right now.A photoshoot for an online magazine (below are 2 spillovers), a series of campaign videos, a video for A Nation In Concert and Singapore Theatre Festival. Paychecks from my previous freelance jobs have yet to arrive, so I'm really surviving on my meagre reserve funds now. Maybe it's because I cannot afford smokes so

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or maybe it was never there.

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So the knife came for me, like a pat on the back. I didn't know what to do with it, so I felt numb.

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The walls of my room are still drowned in a pale salmon pink.At least the new curtains are up. My dad helped me put them up yesterday and brought down the dreadful early 90s' venetian blinds that fade down in shades of purple. I feel compelled to get this room-makeover over and done with but at the same time, I don't want to rush it.I may have ran out of words to say to anyone, even to myself.(

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This is the world: the lying likeness ofOur strips of stuff that tatter as we moveLoving and being loth;The dream that kicks the buried from their sackAnd lets their trash be honoured as the quick.This is the world. Have faith.- Dylan Thomas

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Let us move on.Now that the ache has subsidedInto an almost non-existential jolt that still awakens meevery moment when the nights becomestill.Let us not know,If that dwelling, sinking, fading, menacingstill grip tight.The world I see nowfeels a hue from an auburnand the day will move along into a blue.By then we will know the truth to the whys.The great affair is to move.

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Vietnam's been amazing.Time away from home is exactly what I need right now. I don't want to go back.

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"I think at certain points in life we all need to get out.Pilgrimage. To get out of home, and to be far away from the familiar. When we are too familiar, we become stale with boredom. And to be unfamiliar with a world that's new and perhaps strange, we discover a whole different part of ourselves we never knew."I found this line on the first page on my travelling moleskine.

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Mother asked if I wanted dinner before I left the house today.It's been a few weeks now that I am actually at home in the day and the typical answer was always no. My appetite has gotten very small lately. I have no desire to eat and when I do, I never, ever finished my plate. He said I lost weight. My mum said so, too.So I said yes before plugging on the earphones.I've been catching up with old

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Your eyes were not staring into the lens of the polaroid. We had supper at Sim Pang that night when I had managed to convince Sufen to drive to the east from the north. Such spatial distinction were sensitive. I think we took three shots, but I don't know if all three of us have one each to keep.*That night, when you came over to my room for the first time, you saw the same polaroid and cried.

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Not having the same routine was indeed, what a friend said, a phantom limp.

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I won't forget your smile.I know the smile behind those lipsthat no one has seen.The way you twitch your chinI won't forget, too.I won't forget your curly hair,the twirls between my fingers whenI brushed them through.I won't forget, too,when your lips gently touched my headlike a quiet assurancetelling me you were here.I won't forget.I will remember our nightly ritual,when your voice sent me to

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Sucking the sunwith the weight of you dearI forgot.

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Why I go to film school:and hopefully with more to come.

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All I ask for is ____________

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I just moved back to my old room, where my grandmother used to vacate before she moved back to my Uncle's a few months ago. There are some repainting on the walls to be done, new furniture to purchase, new lights to install, etc, etc. I really cannot wait to have my own room - finally. Meanwhile, the deadlines are slowly killing off every little brain cells I have left, leaving me utterly

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A friend told me a story once, on the train back home, about transits.Empty spaces, underpasses, one-footways.and lifts.People, like you andI,where we don't dwell long enoughin these places but wecome and go,merely passing through.Wandering souls, like himand her,nowhere to go,stay.Where do we go from here?she askedNo one in particular.Like time stood cold and still likewind that refused to

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It was last year, around this time when I started production for 881 when I lost my old, trusty Motorola. Royston then sold me his new Motorola that he won at some awards. I lost it last weekend, along with treasured text messages and contacts I never gotten around to back up.Maybe it's time I stop using Motorola.Anyway, give me a text or email me your number. I will back it up this time.

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Now that April would be less busy than I thought it could have been, I can afford to eat leftover pizzas, watch Family Guy, fall asleep, watch Japan Hour and rearrange my profile boxes on Facebook instead of rushing my assignments on an excruciatingly slow Saturday. I am in a post-shoot kinda spaced out mood, which usually happens a week after a shoot ends. The pendulum that is my student life

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I waswaiting for you.I wasstanding around.I wasgetting older.I wasgoing down.If you always get up lateyou'll never be on time.If you always make it after work.Oh the day never comesand I stand upwaiting on.I saw you down there.I know you were tired,I saw you.You looked like a swimmer.I wanna be with youall of the time.Why can't you satisfy?You look goodbut you sound better,you were the best I

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This is a sure fire anthem that will soon invade iPods, Youtube, Walkmans and Discmans at this internet-age of narcissism.

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I am in love with casuarinas. They are so delicate, yet so incredibly majestic.Such gentle giants, really.

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Singapore International Film Festival turns 21.04.04.08 - 14.04.08

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I hate this. I really do.

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While redrafting my script for the first year short film, I tried to pin a narrative model to it. The original draft was written to be a soliloquy, to which my scriptwriting lecturer downplayed it as 'unworkable' in film form, and a cheap attempt to 'dramatize' the plot. He suggested I listened to him and write a script with a proper conversation between two people. I do not disagree. Perhaps he

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