Just a day after the missus arrived, we depart for Norwich at 12.00noon. The 'rickitty' old-banger chugged at a snail's pace but effortlessly. We arrived at almost 3.00 pm to pick up our daughter for a late Nando's lunch after checking-in at the Beeches Hotel about ten-minutes walk into the city centre.
Today is our daughter's Final Year Short Film project presentation along with nine others from her year at the Sainsbury Centre of the University of East Anglia. With God's grace, the graduation ceremony will be on the 18thJuly 2008. Her 'idol' then Kate Eddie of the BBC TV Journalist & War Correspondent, had obviously motivated her to read English Literature & Politics at Oxford University - but despite having attended 2 interviews she was unlucky not to be excepted. What could we do but to convince her to be on her feet again and take the failure positively and not lying down. In her own words, 'it's not fair and a discrimination of Oxford to reject me and those from a normal school'. She was then, one of the nine candidates from a national school from Central London to be selected for the Oxford University interview. We were really proud. We took leave from office - just to send her and be with her where she stayed in one of the University Colleges for the next three days, whilst we stay in the town hotel - praying to God that she will be accepted. But it was never meant to be.
In a blink of the eyes, suddenly it is almost three years where within those years, the two elder brothers have graduated and soon it will be her turn. Within these three years, she has been away from us, coming home to London only once in a while or should I say, every three months once if not sooner. 'I want to be a cinematographer' she said on one fine evening when she was home with us... We have never known her to be interested in films but literature 'a big yes'. Her shared room with her brother can testify you on this - books scattered all over the floor or anywhere, where there is space. Now she has completed her studies, the staircase too will be strewn with her books on literature, autobiographies, film, cinematography, politics and novels, to name a few. Phew!!.. we surely have to start thinking of disposing or send all our personal effects to Malaysia soon.
5.30pm today will be her final video/film presentation at Sainsbury Center for visual arts of the University of East Anglia along with other 12 of her classmates. The presentation will be the final work to determine their grades. Her presentation, 'A Coloured Expression' in her own words is a film that explores the use of colours to represent the emotional state of a young man's mind during an unstable period of his life; and also symbolizes the supporting characters' perceptions of him. The 17 minutes film presentation is totally hers - idea, direction, cinematography, camera and dialogue except for the actual stars.. Wow!.. just like the late P.Ramlee.
Life is surely full of colours. Red denotes anger, signs of violation and catastrophe whilst blue or may be green may be interpreted as signs of hope, peace, tranquility and life itself. Surely other colours may be translated differently.
But, an artist friend of mine once said..'if you are colour-blind can you be accused that you are wrong or not conforming the mass' Hm..!!!...I wonder...
In a blink of the eyes, suddenly it is almost three years where within those years, the two elder brothers have graduated and soon it will be her turn. Within these three years, she has been away from us, coming home to London only once in a while or should I say, every three months once if not sooner. 'I want to be a cinematographer' she said on one fine evening when she was home with us... We have never known her to be interested in films but literature 'a big yes'. Her shared room with her brother can testify you on this - books scattered all over the floor or anywhere, where there is space. Now she has completed her studies, the staircase too will be strewn with her books on literature, autobiographies, film, cinematography, politics and novels, to name a few. Phew!!.. we surely have to start thinking of disposing or send all our personal effects to Malaysia soon.
5.30pm today will be her final video/film presentation at Sainsbury Center for visual arts of the University of East Anglia along with other 12 of her classmates. The presentation will be the final work to determine their grades. Her presentation, 'A Coloured Expression' in her own words is a film that explores the use of colours to represent the emotional state of a young man's mind during an unstable period of his life; and also symbolizes the supporting characters' perceptions of him. The 17 minutes film presentation is totally hers - idea, direction, cinematography, camera and dialogue except for the actual stars.. Wow!.. just like the late P.Ramlee.
Life is surely full of colours. Red denotes anger, signs of violation and catastrophe whilst blue or may be green may be interpreted as signs of hope, peace, tranquility and life itself. Surely other colours may be translated differently.
But, an artist friend of mine once said..'if you are colour-blind can you be accused that you are wrong or not conforming the mass' Hm..!!!...I wonder...
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