February 27, 2007 |
Malaysian censorship board has banned 2 movies produced by Malaysian directors lately.
The first being axed was “Village People Radio Show” (Apa Khabar Orang Kampung) by director Amir Muhammad, who also had his movie “The Last Communist” banned last year. Amir blogged about why Village People Radio Show was banned, read it.
If communist related movies are judged too sensitive for Malaysians’ viewing, the 2nd banning is rather peculiar. The movie is “I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone” by international renowned director Tsai Ming Liang.
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February 24, 2007 |
My uncle had hired a lion dance group to perform at his house during Chinese New Year, cost a couple hundreds of Ringgits.
When I was a kid, lion dance was quite often seen… during CNY or any Chinese organization’s related events.
Although Malaysia is world renowned for lion dance, it’s not as easily seen as those days. When I was a kid we could get a ‘lion’ performing at our house for RM10 or less; now it cost much more and needs advance booking.
Some people like to relate this to government’s sanction etc., but fact is it’s hard to maintain a lion dance group… it’s not financially sound and youngster these days are not as passionate about these kind of activities; they prefer TV or PC games perhaps.
I wonder 50 years from now on… will people still be seeing lion dance in Malaysia.
February 14, 2007 |
Happy Valentine’s Day to all lovebirds.
Will be going back to Ipoh tomorrow, want to beat the traffic. The blog will go into hiatus until I come back to KL… probably by next weekend.
Happy Chinese New Year to fellow Chinese; for the rest, happy holiday, or at least a happy week ahead.
Gong Xi Fa Cai.
February 12, 2007 |
Finally felt some CNY festive mood over the weekend… shopping malls were jammed with frenzy shopping, and pasar malam was crowded with people hunting for CNY delicacies and accessories.
Was trying to do something illegal, buying firecrackers, but no luck.
CNY without firecrackers will never be the same. I seriously think the banning of most firecrackers are dubious… there are probably more people injured (or killed) in car accidents in a day than would be injured by firecrackers in a year… perhaps we should ban driving instead.
Btw, I am getting tired of CNY. Traffic jams, and same old questions from relatives every year… what are you doing now… Why not working (they never understood the freelance concept)… got girlfriend or not… wah you are getting fatter each year (yes, thank you very much)… blah blah blah…
Gosh, am I getting too old to enjoy CNY?
February 8, 2007 |
When we are talking with our love ones and use the words “YOU” and “ME” more often than “WE”… the relationship could be in trouble.
Just a random thought.
February 4, 2007 |
“The Malays are not a lazy indigenous group, having proven themselves over time in numerous fields,” said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. [NST]
Not all Malays are lazy. In my 3+ years of study in local university, I met some of the most diligent people that are Malays; but majority of the laziest students I have ever met are Malays.
Don’t want to be discriminative here… but unless there are massive improvements over the past few years, large groups of Malays are still being lazy in local varsities.
I don’t want to jump into conclusion that they are lazy by nature, Najib could be right to say that it’s not ‘indigenous’; perhaps some Malay lazy graduates have reasons like not being able to catch up with the studies and low English proficiency (English was a huge problem for lots of local undergraduates).
My point is however, that government leaders like Najib could look into the large problems more seriously instead of being proud with some small achievements. Things cannot be improved if they cannot accept the fact that they need improvements.
February 2, 2007 |
Joe Jer and Zabrina won the first ever The Amazing Race Asia, congrats.
I believe lots of The Amazing Race Asia (TARA) fans are happy to see the girls winning it; personally I’m quite fond of their happy-go-lucky attitude as well.
TARA made a good debut, I like it. I love the contestants… perhaps Asians are more polite, and more fun-going (some of them even having fun playing with bull-shit) and it’s good to see more diversity.
Hope to see TARA 2 soon. The premiere of Amazing Race All Stars is in a couple of weeks, can’t wait for that too.