It’s a sad day. This might be my last post here. I’ve enjoyed blogging for the past few months. Counting back, it’s almost half a year since I started doing this. What started to be a trial turned out to be a part of my daily routine to check on my blog. 2800 number of readership is something to shout about after all. Guess this is a part of my life already. Thanks for those of you who had come here and read my noob posts and even commenting on them.
Even so, i’m moving on. I’ll miss this place terribly, i am a very sentimental person. This is will be my new home.
This is the picture of the dog who has already become an icon of the new Monash campus. He’s constantly being found lingering outside of the campus, just between the bridge and the back entrance. According to my friend Ken, he’s a happy dog. Seems he’s always wagging his tail. Considering all the love and attention he’s been getting, I can’t see why he shouldn’t be…
Listening back to the tunes of dc Talk just brings back memories. I used to love them alot back in high school days and I still do today. We used to jam their songs and sing them all day long. And the early days of my guitaring was very much influenced by them. Some of you might not even heard of dc Talk, coz they’re a Christian rock band, really cool rap rock dudes. Been listening to them all week and one song stood out, Colored People, a song about racism and human diversity.
Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, sir
I couldn’t help but note your shade of melanin
I tip my hat to the colourful arrangement
Cause I see the beauty in the tones of our skin
We’ve gotta come together
And thank the Maker of us all
CHORUS:
We’re coloured people, and we live in a tainted place
We’re coloured people, and they call us the human race
We’ve got a history so full of mistakes
And we are coloured people who depend on a Holy Grace
A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion of an Artist’s heart
By God’s design, we are a skin kaleidoscope
We’ve gotta come together,
Aren’t we all human after all?
Ignorance has wronged some races
And vengeance is the Lord’s
If we aspire to share this space
Repentance is the cure
Well, just a day in the shoes of a colour blind man
Should make it easy for you to see
That these diverse tones do more than cover our bones
As a part of our anatomy
And you’ll wonder when will we humans see beyond our skin colors and accept one another’s differences? A beautiful song like this will only be a song if it doesn’t speaks to your heart. Movies like American History X and Crash doesn’t do any justice to this matter either, although they’re good. As we approach our nation’s 50th anniversary, let’s ponder on this. We’re after all the same under the skin.
Yeah I know this might be old news, but just in case you’re still in the dark about this Malaysian university student in Taiwan who mocked the nation with his rendition of our national anthem ‘Negaraku’, here’s the clip.
Very brave young man. And apparently there would be action taken against him too. Read more.
I always thought Stanley Kubrick as a weird director. Albeit the artistic movies that he had produced in his lifetime, I was never his greatest fan. I’ve watched some of his highly rated movies like A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket and I gotta say that they’re really weird. Dr. Strangelove was funny and decent though. Today I had the chance to watch another Kubrick piece, the movie that changed my perspective of his works.
Surreal. That’s how I would describe this movie in a word. Kubrick showed that he’s one of the best directors that had ever lived through his superb style of directing. In 2001, he uses the camera to delve the audience into a psycological journey in space. So often you hear silence in this movie, as though you’re in real space, only the still images moving in slow-mo. Captivating. The effects used in this movie is awesome. The colors and effects, really revolutionary stuff at that time.
This movie paved the way for more sci-fi films like Star Wars, Star Trek, Apollo 13 and the most recent, Sunshine. They were, in a way influenced by 2001, like it or not. They were all brilliant in their own ways but 2001: A Space Odyssey has to be the most original sci-fi movie ever made.
To really appreciate Kubrick’s works, one MUST watch this movie. I totally adore his works right now. Kubrick is not only one of the best directors, he’s one of the boldest and different. A gem in the filming industry. If you’re a sci-fi fan, I can assure you this movie won’t dissapoint.
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