动地吟

我不是文人，语文科目也没有考很高分，天分欠缺，但是我很支持艺术活动，就如我常讲的，我特别容易被这些艺术家的热情感染，他们的热情是我的充电器。

朋友邀我一起去观看动地吟，墓地动地吟，虽然在墓地但是一点都不阴森，现在的墓地都很摩登，整个环境看起来像公园多余墓园 - 这是对场地的印象。动地吟这名字对我来说其实有点陌生，听过，但不知何物。得知创办者之一是我以前的副校长 - 傅承得，表演者之一是我以前的美术老师 - 吴圣雄，好像就跟这活动更贴近一些些，纯粹是自己在“认亲认戚”。我们一群人浩浩荡荡闯入墓园但没有人知道这活动耗时多久，我们都空腹入场，盘算等一下要去那儿吃好料。入场时是兴奋的、期待的。

当天大道发生严重车祸，导致很多重要的人物无法准时，所以活动接近晚上7点半才开始。活动有诗歌朗诵、诗曲演唱、舞蹈、击乐等。所吟唱的诗很多都与政治有关，现场气氛虽然没有如一些政治人物发表公开演说般激昂，也没有某政党支持者在现场把气氛炒热喧哗，观众都很安分的欣赏，学生偶尔窃窃私语讨论笔记。。。但是我的胃却不安分，胃液在身体内兴风作浪；心脏也不守纪，不规律的悸动让我很难专心。这种艺术让我吃不消，对我来说太承重了，即便这样，我还是等到活动结束才离开，我实在不忍吹促友人提早离场。当我走到车子开车的那一霎那，我的胃和心也即时平复下来。

我无法分享我的观后感，我只能承认我软弱，我无法正眼面对政治这一块。

Taiwan Women Film Festival 2010

很难想象我有这么文艺吗？也对，常在美术科徘徊在及格与不及格边缘的我很难跟艺术占上边。。。只是有时我认为有些事情虽然我们没有办法出钱出力，但我们还是应该身体力行地去参与与支持! 我没有办法出钱去制作电影，也没有天份去制作电影，但至少我坚持支持正版。

偶然、机缘、巧合下（非常老土的开场），看到台湾女性影展在报章上的宣传，碰巧那个周末我没约，碰巧又有一部我想看很久的电影-《刺青》（因为电影题材有点敏感，所以这部电影并没有在本地电影院上映），所以就这样敲定会到场支持咯！

我并没有出席过任何影展，我想最基本的尊重应该是在出席前做一点功课吧。这影展共展出7部电影，其中有4不是纪录片。欲了解更多详情可参阅网站：http://twff2010.blogspot.com

我对纪录片不感兴趣，所以我只看了3部电影 - 《刺青》、《漂浪青春》和《阳阳》。顾名思义，女性影展当然是展示一些从女性角度为出发点或以女性为中心的电影。在影展正式开始前，大会邀请了几位名人上台说几句话，其中一位男士说（不好意思，小女子才疏学浅，有眼又不识泰山，我只知道他是著名作家永乐多斯博士的丈夫），虽然这影展标榜女性电影展，但他希望能够看到更多的男生出席，希望他们看过这些电影后能够更了解女生。事实？95%的观众是女生。。。

第一天的影展，我马拉松式地看了《刺青》和《漂浪青春》，两部电影都出于同一位女导演 - 周美玲。大会还邀请到导演和她的摄影师女友来到马来西亚分享他们的作品呢！

我本人比较喜欢《刺青》，并不是因为《刺青》有偶像明星的加持，而是电影的情节非常前卫（对我这种化石来说），所以它对我来说是一种“culture shock”（虽然事先已经知道故事的内容大纲）；加上影片播放后的导演Q&A交流会，导演分享了她想藉由这部电影所要表达的讯息和意义，让我多了一个角度去回味这部电影。导演说，《刺青》想要表达的是“突破”，当我们遇到挫折或懦弱时，我们如何突破心理的障碍。竹子选择让刺青的痛来减轻心里的内疚、小绿选择逃避（逃避现实，活在网路虚拟的世界里）来证明自己的存在、竹子的弟弟则选择了遗忘来解决问题。。。但他们的问题依然存在，若他们无法突破自己，他们将无法获得真正的自由和得到真正的快乐和幸福。。。

《漂浪青春》这部片子则由3个不同的故事组成，3个故事看似不相干但主人翁在他们生命的某个阶段却有一些交集，这也是一部值得欣赏的电影，只可惜我听不懂闽南语，所以我想这削减了我对这部电影的共鸣和喜欢程度吧！

至于《阳阳》，它是第二天的压轴电影。我必须说对不起，导演和该片的摄影师，我本人应该是因为有“motion sickness”的毛病，所以我并不能很专注的看完整部电影，尤其是阳阳和她的经纪人跳舞的那一段，我只能闭上双眼。

看吧！虽然看了几部这么优秀且得奖无数的艺术电影，让我分享观后感还是说不出什么所以然。我重申，不是电影不好，只是个人造诣非常有限。

TOMOI

I was "dating" with my college girl friends at Sunway Pyramid for lunch last Sunway (21.03.10) and then shop around the mall for gift to my friend and guess what? This is way too far from what we expected to see - TOMOI competition (for me, it's boxing...).

Actually I don't feel comfortable seeing something violent, I had serious headache after watching, em... what's the name of the movie? All I can remember is it's a lady version of Ong Bak. And I got a punch on my nose before when I met a thief 2 years back... so, for me to see people punching is kind of scary and remind me of that terrified incident.

But, since my friend wanted to stay and watch and I thought this would be once in a lifetime watching this kind of competition (cause I don't think I'll purposely switch to any TV channel to watch it or go for a live "concert" seeing something like this), so, I decided to snap a few pictures just to proof that, yea, maybe I could conquer my fear.

The Malay guy is so strong and he was hitting the Chinese and the Chinese fell

ouch....

Friendship 1st

Can you see how many people is watching this?

The 2nd group... if not mistaken I think I heard the emcee saying Cambodia or something...
The referee was explaining the rules, I think

Start fight!!!

Oh... that's enough for me... and coincidently, my camera's battery died off, so, I didn't finish watching all. But that's still not my favourite competition tho.

Real?!

I need to rush up 2 more posts before sharing a sad and a happy stories.

I always said I'm a typical libran, but but but, one of the characteristics of libran is they are very artistic. This 100% does NOT apply to me as I always fail my art subjects in school.
But, I have a good father who is good in art, so, some of my art or handicraft or whatever pieces that my art teachers asked me to do, were actually his "masterpiece". muahahahaha
Although I'm not an artistic person, that doesn't mean that I don't like art, I love art as well, sometimes when seeing those fine art and I'll get inspired and start trying, but... most of the time, no no, all of the time, result turned out to be like shit. So, just forget about it, I must admit, I'm not artistic AT ALL!!!!

Why am I writing so much about art? Let's look at the pictures below, look closely...

Delicious desserts!
There are butter cake, chocolate cake, fruit cake, mousse cake...

oh, more desserts
there are donuts, biscuit, bun, biscotti...

OMG... cup cakes, sausage bread, cinnamon bun...
eh? How come the fork so big?

The chef is making pie...

They are all miniatures! Sweet sweet Lingzie is posing with this special one
This special one is imported from ____ (one of a European country, later go to ask Joanne and fill in the blank)
Joanne bought this when she was traveling to Europe
All of the above miniatures desserts display are decorated in Joanne's brother bakery shop - Bread Basket Bakery
While enjoying the food and cakes there, you can walk around and see their deco too!

Although I can't produce good art piece, but I can capture them using my camera! Hehehe