Contemplate 1027

Finally the project for October 2008 : my first attempt on acrylic has completed. It is entitled Contemplate 1027 for reasons only known to myself and the painting's intended owner. Yes, it seems only natural to keep my "baby" in my possession, especially it's my first one. However, this painting was done with the intention of making it as a gift (hope it is not too tacky!). As a matter of fact, it will be handed to the intended owner in a few hours' time! The thought of seeing my gift's reception displayed on the expression of the face of the intended owner is already making me jumping on my seat!

Contemplate 1027 - Work-In-Progress

Preview: Forget-Me-Not

Don't get me wrong, this is not another online personality test like What Flower Are You. This is the title of a Malaysian/Japanese co-production film project that won the top Pusan Award at the recent 13th Pusan International Film Fest!

Yasmin Ahmad had once again made us so proud to come up tops out of 300 entries and 30 finalists to be awarded a whopping $20,000 seed money to proceed with the film project.

Thanks to Kousuke Ono's (the nephew of Yoko Ono) eye for recognising what a true gem Yasmin is, and of course his determination to strike a collaboration with her, what Yasmin might initially thought of the invitation from Ono-san as a mere friendly gesture eventually became reality.

Inspired by her minor Japanese origins, Yasmin submitted to Ono a simple sypnosis about a Malay girl by the name of Inom, whose ailing grandmother is a Japanese, prompted her to find her way to Japan to learn about her roots. Little did she know that this simple sypnosis had not just brought her the opportunity to embark on a international film collaboration, but also a ticket to the Asia's biggest film festival and capital of $20,000 for the film!

Congrats, Kak Yasmin! As you aptly put it, this is really a sudden, unexpected and unplanned blossoming of one Forget-Me-Not!

So I will have another film under her belt to look forward to.

On another note, Muallaf is finally showing on the silver screen, albeit it being in Singapore first, yet again!

Sweet Reunion

I attended a wedding dinner of an ex-colleague of mine on Saturday night, which happened to be the first wedding dinner invitation that was addressed personally to me (the wedding dinners I attended were usually my relatives' so they were addressed to my parents). Gosh I'm getting OLD enough to receive such invites! Soon enough I will be bombarded by questions about my marriage and all!

Anyways, this ex-colleague of mine was rather my supervisor when I had a short stint of 2-month period in this locally listed hospitality company back in early 2007. I was totally surprised to receive her sms one day telling me that she was getting married (after all she was only a year elder, which was even more surprising as it was so young for her to be getting married at the age of 25, at least to me it is!). It had been a while since we kept in contact, and that was the first thing I heard about her! A pleasant surprise indeed!

As I do not have my own transport, arrangements were made such that one of my other ex colleagues could car pool. Yet another pleasant moment through out the journey as we were catching up fervently.

There was a full table at the dinner dedicated to all her ex colleagues from the same place. It was wonderful to see some of the familiar faces, and amazingly most of them remembered me although I only worked there for such a short time! (At least some remembered my face though not my name haha!) And to think that 8o% of the occupants at the table had already moved on to work somewhere else, isn't calling this occasion a reunion befitting? :)

So soon enough, bantering and catching up had started even before the first dish was served. All I could say that this was the least boring and quiet wedding dinner I'd been to!

Yet, the dinner wasnt the end of all after a near 2-year hiatus. Coincidentally it was the birthday of one of my ex colleagues. Thus, after dinner, 4 of the closer us continued with a drinking session and a simple birthday celebration at this cosy cafe somewhere in wangsa maju with amazingly friendly servers. We ended up playing pool until 2 in the morning!

Those where the times when I truly enjoyed myself. No stress, no hiccups, just simple laughthers and ridiculuos jokes!

Till the next reunion!

FY, wish you eternal happiness with your loved ones, and jolly marriage!

On another note, do not give up, Isaac. Learn your mistakes and you'll be on your way to realise your dream. Forget about being a "Sunny Pretty Boy"!

Beware of this fraudster!

To the owner of mobile phone number 016-2165498:

May you come to your senses when you start calling people up and tell them that you work for some credit card governing body that wants to send out to back up card for card users.

There is no reason for such a "governing body" to send out "back up" credit cards when the users do not even require them.

It is not logical that such "governing body" would need to inquire about credit card details over the phone when they should have access to such information via issuing banks.

I believe Malaysian mobile service providers are not so advanced, yet, that they would provide recording facilities for teleconversations through their mobile line.

So please come to your senses as I am not as gullible as you think. I hope others out there are not as well.

I sincerely hope you would stop this act. Your religion is strongly against cheating. Five prayers a day will not save you from your sin.

Lily?

You Are A Lily

You are a nurturer and all around natural therapist. People see you as their rock. And they are able to depend on you. You are a soothing influence. You can make people feel better with a few words. Your caring has more of an impact than even you realize.

What Flower Are You?

I happened to come across this test today. There weren't many questions to answer, so I was wondering how did the test could come to the conclusion that my personality is akin to a lily, which translates into the description above. So I guess there weren't a lot of flowers to represent the minimal possibilities and limited array of characters.

Neways, lily is not bad a flower.

So what flower are you?

Project for October 2008

This is a new "project" that I'm going to embark on this month.

Never in my life that I had done acrylic before. I did oil painting ONCE but that was in primary school and it was on normal drawing paper! This is the "starter kit" that I bought on Sunday, and I even did away with the varnish and medium. So it's bare minimal!

The outcome will be revealed when my masterpiece is done in two weeks time. It's a bit too short to work on a "masterpiece" but that's the only time I have.

Haha, Mondrian in the making! (Oops, did he do acrylic before?)

红色炸弹

My first wedding invitation
Originally uploaded by aushee

昨天晚上，我连夜把剩余八集的“命中注定我爱你”给看完（惊人吧！），心中泛起不少涟漪，甚至连睡梦中，那首甜蜜到不行的主题曲也一直在脑里回响着。

相遇，第一次是偶然，第二次是必然，第三次是命中注定。

然而，在现实生活中，又有什么事物是可以让人有百分之百的把握与掌控权呢？

但是，有时候沉溺在虚幻的偶像剧世界，就因为在观看的前提就已经能预知完美幸福的结局收场，所以个中男女主角所面对的艰辛，对观众而言也能变得轻松自如。苦尽甘来，似乎已成了这虚幻世界里不变的定律。也就因为这样，我对人生的观望，有时也变得乐观一些。

忽然想起，前阵子，我受到了有史以来第一枚冲着我而来的红色炸弹，来自于一名比我年长一岁的前女同事。

这枚炸弹，其实来的并不意外。只是，它敲响了我年龄的警报。它意味着，我亦即将步入适婚的年龄；也意味着，我亦即将得面对及承受新的压力与困扰。原来，我也开始老了！

在此，祝愿这对新人白头偕老。我想信，红色炸弹的攻击陆续有来。