Balance

Yesterday I had a great evening at MVA screening of the docu-movie Ginga, produced by the director of City of Gods, Fernando Meirelles. What can I say? The movie is totally awesome. This docu-movie is actually a compilation of 7 short documentaries of how 7 Brazilian live up to the Ginga dream in Brazilian soccer. It shows the struggle of the poor who dream to be rich through football, the rich who do not want his status stop him from his favourite sport, the disable who plays football amid the struggles in his daily life, a team who build their own pitch and train in the most difficult of situations and a soccer star’s humble beginning.

Scenes which I cannot forget from the movies are:
a) A soccer pitch on a large raft in the middle of the Amazon River.
b) The ball juggling skill of the World’s Best Futsal Player, Falcio.
c) A breath-taking duel match between Robinho and Falcio.
d) Two teams of Brazilian girls playing volleyball with their feet like football!

So glad I didn’t miss that screening. It made me ashamed of myself for playing skill-less futsal though. And besides that, one of the hosts from Nike actually wore a dress which seems to me like a low cut nightgown. Strange but tastefully true …

Among the two most recognized video awards in Malaysia is going on and last nite was a blast at both ends. Astro’s awards nite clashed with MVA’s Experimental & Short Film Awards nite. Well, the organizers were having a hard time organizing it. But it was fun to see among all the gold, silver & bronze winners, many of whom were my classmates or my collegues. Congrats to Yee Sien and team who won at both ends, Nizam and the Riven kids, Darrel, YB, Szu Pei, Sidney, Fairuz and Yuyin. Proud of this pool of friends.

Hmm … I still have a documentary which I can still enter aftr I’ve done some re-editing. Probably will send it next year. Never know what it might get.

Because of that, I’m facing some dilemma of my own. I have many goals, many ideas and many things which I wanna do but I find myself lacking the time and money and have a work commitment to fulfil…
I hope in one year or half a year’s time, everything would change. I certainly would like to change the course where I am heading. But in order to do that, all my planning has to go on well. I pray to God for all things to be "sun sun lei lei" …

As how my boss would put it, "We are to produce creative and inovative thinkers, not mindless factory workers".
Nevermind what I do, it is still a learning process which I am going through. There should be no rush to rise to the top. It will only drag you down even faster.