Two days ago (well, three, since it's already past midnight) I screened CHICKEN RICE MYSTERY to fellow film students of Waseda University. It was an all-day private screening for all film students doing their Masters to display their works.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
China President Hu Jintao Visited My University. Big-Scale "Free Tibet!" Rally.
I was finding a place to have lunch in the afternoon when I saw that the main entrance of the university was packed with people with banners, and members of the media, and the police. Apparently, China's president, was coming over to Waseda University. I was mildly surprised because, while I heard of his arrival to Tokyo on TV last night and heard of his possible Waseda visit, I didn't know he was coming to Waseda today.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Suanie Talks About Chicken Rice Mystery. Seb's Lil' Bro Reviews BMW Shorties' 10 Finalists
Now that it’s over, I can say this with a straight face: FROM EXPERIENCE (ahem ;) ) acting isn’t easy. There’s the nerves and it gets in the way of trying to remember your lines along with the facial expressions and body gestures that go along with them. I guess it shouldn’t be a problem for professional actors. But you know the cliché of women being able to juggle a few things at one time? Well, I don’t fit into that.Suanie, would had turned in an awards-worthy cameo in my film, CHICKEN RICE MYSTERY, recounts her experience during the shoot. Fun stuff.
- SUANIE
Suanie undergoing make-up for CHICKEN RICE MYSTERY
(The very loving and supportive Chris Tock had also plugged Suanie and Chicken Rice Mystery two weeks ago.)
Now, less on Chicken Rice Mystery and more on the 9 other BMW SHORTIES finalists. Caleb, little brother of my friend Sebastian had taken his time to watch all ten shortlisted films on BMW SHORTIES and posted his thoughts on each and every one of them. Check them out.
Chicken Rice Mystery by Edmund Yeo
Very Malaysian with the hodgepodge of chinese dialects in it. Reminds me of home.Plot-wise, well, the ending is in one ways or another expected, as in you can ALMOST guess what is going to happen but not sure how. A child's take on his mom's one of mystery chicken rice dish.
The plot keeps you guessing continuously but can't exactly place your finger on it til the end where all is revealed and you go 'cheh, should have seen that coming'. A child's take on his mom's mystery one-off delicious chicken rice dish.
- CALEB
Once again, CHICKEN RICE MYSTERY can be viewed at the BMW Shorties website.
Monday, May 05, 2008
TOKYO TOWER AND CHIBA: Two Videos I Shot In Tokyo
Photos of that particular visit can be found at my Visiting Tokyo Tower post.
Not the best of videos, most of the stuff I shot there weren't exactly that stunning to begin with. I blame it on my old broken-down camcorder, haha. On the other hand, said old broken-down camcorder still amazes me sometimes, like the 800x zoom, I have no idea it could zoom in so far!
Anyway, if you missed out the video I uploaded before the Tokyo Tower one, here's the Malaysian Gathering At Chiba video:
Sunday, May 04, 2008
THE STAR's special mention of Chicken Rice Mystery and Me
It seems that today's THE STAR had another write-up on BMW SHORTIES, and I got a special mention...
... as the only guy who wasn't in the photo with the other 9 finalists. *sigh*
... as the only guy who wasn't in the photo with the other 9 finalists. *sigh*
Check out Da Huang PIctures' Online Shop
The folks at DA HUANG PICTURES have set up an online shop, so you can now buy their much-talked-about festival hits and watch it at the comfort of your own living room.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Shaolin Girl 少林少女
After 3 weeks of Japanese language classes, I decided to put my newly-acquired language skills to test by going to the cinema for the first time since arriving at Tokyo. My original plan was to see IRON MAN, but since it isn't going to come out in Japan until September, I can only pick a Japanese film to watch (all other Hollywood fare were stuff that came out during the end of 2007, the newer stuff showing now are SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES and 10 000 B.C...)
I picked a film which I knew wouldn't really be too much of a challenge to understand despite my lack of Japanese language skills:
SHAOLIN GIRL.
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