Fighting!

I don’t quite remember how this thought came to be, but it suddenly dawned upon me that I ought to ‘find my centre’. The only imagery that I get out of that very abstract thought, is the way how ballerinas learn to twirl and land perfectly.
Now, how shall one with two left feet supposedly respond [...]

The King and the Clown (2005)

In the first few minutes of this movie, Jae-saeng; a street clown and the de facto leader of the troupe told Kung-gil, his fellow performer and friend this, “There are things which you shouldn’t sell”. He was talking about Kung-gil’s body. At this frame, the audience would have started to cringe.
Kung-gil was not a male [...]

Tak Cukup Malaysian?

I was at the High Dependency Unit of the Ipoh General Hospital yesterday to visit my diabetic uncle but was told by my aunt that she was rudely reprimanded by a doctor for being unable to speak in Bahasa Malaysia.
All she needed was an intepreter to help her understand the hospital admission procedures better. But [...]

Loyalty on Canvas.

Deuteronomy makes a great travelling companion. Because it is about people on the move. But, travelling in those days are unlike travelling today. Flashy AirAsia advertisements did not don the deserts of the wilderness and leading 3 generations of Israelites was anything but a tour guide’s fantasy come true.
The fact that the people [...]