How much is tradition worth? $1000? Can i buy your culture with that? $10,000? can i have your heritage too? I just finished watching a documentary, 'Rags to Riches', done by a student from NUS. The topic for the document was the annual NUS Rag and Flag day. The release date is a timely 2 weeks before Rag day 2011. I think the producers did a very good job. If this is his portfolio, and if i watch it as his employer, i'd be impressed. That is- if i didn't know better about the topic of this documentary. In this film, Colin guided the audience slowly through a gradual process of controversy unraveling one after the other. If i may take an audacious guess, I'd say that he was guiding the auidence towards what he believes about Rag. That is mildly propaganda, isn't it? On more than one instant, it feels like what the interviewees said were framed up in a slightly different context, or the interviewees were guided towards his desired answer. And what is that? If i m
I figured that life can be happier and simpler, if you only allow it to be. So go on out there and be free! Be yourself to the fullest, because you can be nobody else. Share love, spread joy, and bring meaning to the lives of others. Retrospectively, the things that you once held dear may cease to mean anything; objects lose their relevance to time. But people, and your relationships with them, don't. The joy that a friend brings to you today is timeless. Treasure it. =)