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Just read this piece of news online just now.

It’s a useless piece of info, and probably untrue, but it really amused me.
I mean, how often does one get to say “Kim Jong Il ate my rabbits”?? hahahaha. That really amused me.

Also, the rabbit in the picture reminds me greatly of the wererabbit in Wallace and Gromit in “the Curse of the Wererabbit”. Freak-like, and gargantuous. And fluffy.

But on another note, I really wonder how North Korea is gonna survive down the road. The last I read on some blog about a ‘guided’ tour of N. Korea, an old lady was seen picking herbs from the public park, official explanation being “to feed her rabbits”, but the immediate assumption could be she’s picking the herbs to feed herself cos all the rabbits’ been eaten already!!

Poor North Koreans. Especially when their southern relatives are practically swimming in money (one of the world’s largest city/most digitally connected city/most expensive city/etc). It’s just terrible. But I really can’t think of how they can get out of that mess.

Somebody’s gotta invent carrots that’d multiply itself at 100 times the speed of growing one, then there will be enough carrots for people to eat (and to feed the gigantic rabbits).

side note (and irrelevant): this is probably the kind of news scenario that would end up being used as a topic for a comedy sketch on Studio 60, but that show has been canned!! argh.

heehee. Yup. Gonna use my blog space to advertise a bit.

I’m so excited that we’re done with the project. And there’s gonna be a screening this coming Friday! Do come if you’re interested in checking out my hardwork for the past few months! :p

So. The details…

FILAMENT

- world premiere (haha!) of 13 short films (drama & documentary) from the final-year students of NTU Sch of Communication & Information.

• when: 27 April 2007, Friday, (and 28 Apr, Sat), 8pm onwards
• where: Theatreworks @ 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore

My group’s short film is titled “兩塊錢，謝謝。” (Two Dollars, Thank You). It’ll be shown on the first day (ie. 27 Apr, Fri), so come check it out! Admission is free.

And a lil’ bit about what my group’s film is about:

The main theme is urban isolation. The story’s protagonist Xiaohui, lives a life of routines and disconnectedness, unaware of the isolation that she experiences in the bustling city. But one day, her daily routine is broken — the guy at the dessert shop who always serves her dessert every day has suddenly disappeared, and an isolated neighbour committed suicide. This chain of events then prompts her to re-examine her life, and her relationship with everyone around her, especially her family.

So yeah, it’s in mandarin, but there’re subtitles. :p

Wondering if I should put up our trailer & poster here, hm but might take up a lot of bandwidth, I’ll see how.

Meanwhile, (once again) come support!

This is actually kinda old news. Deadline for the video and report was last Thursday night, but I guess the event is worth a belated news update. :p

After labouring for 9 months, it’s finally done. phew! It’s the first time I actually shot anything I wrote, so yeah, it was a pretty interesting experience. The night before our shoots I’d be freaking out on the details, trying to go through storyboard in my head till I actually dreamed about the shoots. But the next day I wake up and it’s go go go! haha.

Glad it’s finally over. No more editing and watching the video a zillion times (although I still have to go back and design the dvd menus). But the work is done. Finally can take a rest, do homework, not skip classes and edit on weekends. yay! And watch more TV! And start having time to exercise!

Can’t wait to screen our short film. Still working out the schedule with organisers, so hopefully it’ll be good!

And thank goodness that the grant from Singapore Film Commission came through! Don’t think we can just rely on the school’s 200 bucks since our production cost already went into the thousands. But with the grant, at least we don’t have to empty our own pockets.

I guess producing this short film on our own has been quite an amazing experience. I mean, I really did learn a lot of stuff on the way (since they never really teach us much in school), and in the end, it does give me a little confidence in knowing that hey, we can actually manage to produce something that isn’t all too bad! Whether it’s good or not, I don’t know yet. Pray the project moderators won’t tear it to bits during our upcoming presentation lol.

Just finished my term paper for my Asian film module — last academic paper to write, ever! yay! So now it’s time for a well-deserved break. I’m going home tomorrow for a long weekend holiday!