“love me if you dare”
- truer words were never spoken..
ok
today’s story
actually
i’d like to mention a bit on new zealand films
Whiti Ihimaera’s Whale Rider
(hey this guy is the man in books - as local author i meant. his pounamu pounamu(green stone) short stories collection will always be somethign i remember. i guess. i like the stories he writes bout the maori people you know? i don’t know why but i feel comforted.i don’t really like a lot of kiwi writes. like janet frame - i only like her german penchant collection.
but
i’ve yet to see “in my father’s den”
but i will get to that soon when time allows me to do so
with movies, i don’t plan.
opportunity beckons
i just take it up if i’m up for it.
there is also another new zealand short film but gotta wait for it.
and some of the stuff Kate and Ellie Palmer wrote and direct
(haha i went to school with them and i always see kate around during lunch time by the library next to the water fountain on most days when its not raining with a book. she really really reads a lot and sometimes i’d have my lunch nearby with my friend and i’d count the different books she’s read.sometimes i’d even use her choice to be the book of hte week/month to fill my compulsory reading log before the year is out for english..but if you guys have never ever heard bout the palmer sisters, its about time cos they’re going to be the next peter jackson)
so
tonite
i think if memory serves me well (ok i lie. it ALWAYS fails me)
i think i saw probably the third episode
and you know
i had a good feel when watching it
it was something truly new zealand
and not trashy like shortland street
or the arrested development copy cat
heh..don’t get me started on the super nanny one that they copied to.
from demons to darlings or something.
anyway
the show is called The Market
you can get the synopsis and everything there
i only watched one episode so i cna’t comment much except
it is something really new zealand..
like what’s life a bit in the market in the south eh
the bros
the gangs
the markets buying and dealing and the ppl
and you know
i’ve been to the markets in otara
hey hey
i see great stuff
(even tho its like any wet market - wet and sometimes dirty..)
but still
its a feeling you know..
that you can’t get when you walk into the supermarket
here
you’re not meant to be rush
you walk
you browse
you haggle
you watch the vendors
you think..what’s life like in their shoes
(their lives are probably more fanscinating that mine anyway - don’t get me wrong. i’m not willing to trade my life to that just yet. not gonna move to some small side by the beach town to retire. gotta live a bit more )
hey wateva
i don’t know how to really describe it
i’m bad with words thats why i am still until today a c- student.
nobody can understand why i dodge subjects that require me to write essays
but i suck at maths either
so go me.
can’t do anything.
but this is a good show
and i hope you like it too.
o yea
another cool nz flick - BroTown by oscar knightley and nathan rarere and a few other ppl whose names i’ve forgotten. am truly sorry. but i know, on of their executive producers is James Griffith - the one reason that i buy the weekend harold anyway hahah its true. i throw everything aside, fight for the canvas section with 2 other ppl in this household and flip to the back to see what he has to say every week.
he’s even taken over Raybon Kan.
i guess its a good thing.
but Raybon Kan is always in when i read his tennis account with his nephew. tennis in a whole new light cos its like he very ‘charm’ like that..so ‘yuin wong’
well
i’m sure there’s more nz book/columns/movies that i’ve seen but i don’t seem to remember now
so..
have a great week ahead
hmm
just by stroke of luck and i’m willing to cameo for free
you think they’d let this chinky azn kid here cameo a bit in some of the bro flicks? ahhaha
i dunno eh…i think one of the experiences you have to experience in new zealand is being part of their films or short stories.
not mainstream stuff cos that’s not really appealing imho. all the inde stuff or the shows that aren’t aired in prime time. will be one of the greatest memories i can get from new zealand.
i think tomolo or after thurs
i’ll list some of the things i feel i have to do before i leave here in the quite far away future.