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It feels great to be appreciated.

Somebody in Australia saw my FYP short film, and actually thought it was good enough.

Good enough for a competition in a freaking film festival!! w00t!

Got an e-mail a few days ago saying that my group’s film has been selected to compete for the Tadgell’s Bluebell Honor Award (best film made by adult for/about youth) at the 10th Auburn International Film Festival in Sydney. Checked out the website and found our film listed right there in a whole long page of other entries.

This is really surprising. We sent the video out for a lot of film festivals, but never really thought we’d get any response. Although the story’s theme is universal, it is embedded in a culture and language that is essentially very locally Singapore. Plus it is a very subtle film, so I am surprised, but very glad, that someone outside Asia understands and appreciates it. That is, wow.

Heh, definitely feels good to reaffirm that those 9 months of stress and hard work was not a wasted effort. (I still cannot believe that I lost weight over the course of the 1-week shoot, even with meals eaten 3 times a day — gotta promote this as the new definitive weight-loss regime.)