Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Raw and to the point. I respect you National Geographic. Man, the docu on war photographers is really jut raw. I never imagine a show that would show the audience the blown up leg of a person who just stepped on a mine. The end of the leg had flesh all dangling.
I guess the reason for doing that is just to show the horrors of war. The sight of 16 year old boy who was part of the Afghan Alliance who stepped on a land mine just shows the dark side of war. The thing is that even with his leg blown off, the boy just lay on teh bed emotionless. Even when the doctors were treating it. The camera showed the resolute of the boy. Sadly, he did not survive.
he spoke at 10:23 pm
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
At times, I really wonder what the the local media industry need to do in order to be recognised by the majority of Singaporeans. It is really sad that they are only recognise after they have made it big overseas. Are we really that lack of "judgement" that we need the views of others before we are able to think for ourselves? Must we need other people to accept us before we accept ourselves?
This thought has always been lingering in my mind. Last week, while on the bus, I was sitting next to this group of secondary school students. When the TP IMD student's work on TV Mobile was screened, it caught their attention and they stopped talking to watch it. The moment the scrolling text came on to say that it was a student's work, one of them remarked, "Chey, student's work" and they started talking again. I was quite bemused because they simply shrugged the show because it was a student's work. Is it really that bad? Personally, my answer would be no. I really respect TP IMD because they really can produce excellent work. So than, why put down the work because it's a student's work?
he spoke at 1:05 am