Almost - Our Movie

Our movie "Almost" was finally screened. Not many people turned up. Teresa's then-new boyfriend allowed the use of his apartment. I stole the company projector to show it. I returned it the same day. It was damn complicated to smuggle the thing out of the company. Sheesh! Luckily, I did not have to really do that. I was on the way out of my office and walking towards the car park when a random male colleague- too many of them to really keep track, approached me about borrowing the projector. I lied and told him I needed it the next day for a presentation. I let him assumed it was work related. Sheesh! The things I have to do for art.

Tested our movie the night before at Teresa's friend's place. The volume sucked and I had to do the subtitling, which kinda made it better. I asked around if they wanted to do a sequel. No one really wanted to except Teresa. At the moment, I cant promise anything because this year, I must finish writing my novel. I am mad thinking I could write one in Malay. But it is half-way done. So I am quite pleased with it.

Those that turned up had many kind words. So, thank you: David, Teresa, May Ying, Dennis, Laura and Tiara. The best reaction had to go to May Ying's shock after I told her it was David who played the geeky twin, Jacob: "That was David?!"

And for all those that participated in our little movie, I will be sending you guys a copy, soon. I promise. In a nutshell, what you missed were:
1. Waiting around Friendster Cafe in Damansara Perdana for people to turn up.
2. Discovery that Tiara lived at the Ritz. Later turned out to be the Ritze.
3. In our panic to set up the projector, Teresa had hit a button which inadvertently killed the machine. We tried everything to make it work. Then Teresa found a dangling wire and said... "Hey shouldnt this be plugged in somewhere?"
4. Teresa was really excited by the whole thing but still manage to find curtains to darken the room for a cinema ambience. By the end of it, she even managed to squeeze in a quick nap. Sheesh!
5. We watched our movie as David talked to Sam and intermittently left the room because he cant stand the sight of himself on screen. At least he turned up unlike PY. Sigh!
6. We had a ton of cigarettes.
7. After we watched Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, which made me realise why Madonna wanted to shag Guy Ritchie. Really felt like weed. Good grief.
8. Went downstairs and had more ciggies.
9. I went home and fantasise about my next movie and a real relief that we had completed the movie.

Radio and TV

Met up with PY and RR tonight at Asia Cafe, which according to RR has everything he needs: Chicks, Food and Pool. Apparently, it also has funny titled porn. But then again, porn titles are generally rather amusing. But I digress. In fact all of us did tonight. Mostly towards sex.

I wanted to meet up with PY because I owed her some money. And since she was already meeting up with RR, I thought about asking them both about doing a radio show with me. The original idea I had was to do a show at the Centre of Independent Journalism (CIJ). It was conceived after a couple of visits to their headquarters in Ampang. I wanted to do a Sophie's World type of programme, introducing kids and the Malaysian public to philosophy. With possibly actors (i.e. me friends from VTC) playing the role of the major philosophers.

But after tonight's discussion. Everybody thought it was boring. Though they were quite nice about it. It was decided that we needed to do a more accessible show, perhaps a forum type of programme. For example, asking people whether "all was fair in love and war". And let it all flow naturally. I came up with another idea: "If you could be invisible, would you commit a crime?" I thought it would be fun to ask children these type of questions and do an analysis. This would include what philosophers thought about such an ethical quagmire. Other possible ideas include "Time travel: Is it possible to change the past? Would you do it?"

Out of nowhere, RR asked us whether we should do a TV programme instead. We decided that we were going to do one based on our experiences in VTC, which had many weird characters and plenty of drama. PY said we should spice it up by making them have sex with each other. RR said it would be totally cool/fucked up if we cast the people of VTC as themselves. PY said maybe we could have a Simon Cowell character auditioning the wannabe actors! I thought it would be really cool too, if we had Gavin Yap auditioning for the show and our judges huddle and our Simon says: "Nah... He's too Gavin Yap!" Hilarious!

Hence, it was resolved that each of us was to write an idea/synopsis/treatment for one episode. Due next year. I cant wait.