Hi folks just wanted to share with you all, the movies I am looking forward to the most. Man these movies sure gonna put a dent in my wallet. Oh well I guess it can’t be helped. Nothing beats watching movies on big screen.

1) The Chronicles of Narnia (December 9th, 2005)
2) Memoirs of a Geisha (December 9th, 2005)
3) Syriana (December 9th, 2005)
4) King Kong (December 14th, 2005)
5) Munich (December 23rd, 2005)
6) Transamerica (December 23rd, 2005)
7) Casanova (January 6th, 2006)
The New World (January 13th, 2006)
9) World Fastest Indian (February 3rd, 2006)
10) V for Vendetta (March 17th, 2006)

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)

Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)

Finally I have saved up enough money to buy a laptop. Although I mentioned before that I wasn’t going to buy one any time soon, I was convinced otherwise by an offer given by Dell. I decided to buy this laptop using the flexi plan payment scheme offered by Dell. Basically it’s a 12 month 0% interest free installment payment.

The reason why opted to pay an installment was the fact I wanted to have money on hand if ever the need arises. Better to pay little by little rather than spending the whole amount and hoping nothing goes wrong. Besides since it’s a 0% interest free scheme, I won’t pay more than the actual amount.

And finally I can do my work anywhere I want to in my house without disturbing my brother’s sleep.

And for all you tech heads here’s what I ordered. Note. I added a few stuff to suit my requirements. The total cost amounted to SGD 2700.

Dell Inspiron 9300 Notebook

Specifications
* Intel Pentium M Processor 1.73 GHz, 2MB Cache, 533 MHz FSB
* 17″ UltraSharp Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife :1920×1200
* 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) Go 6800
* Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet
* Artic Silver with Alpine White accents on a black base
* Integrated Stereo Sound with Subwoofer
* 1024MB (2 X 512MB) DDR2 SDRAM
* Internal Dell(TM) 87 Keys Keyboard (English)
* Dell(TM) Optical USB Mouse
* 80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
* Internal 8X DVD+/RW Combination Drive
* Dell(TM) Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module
* 90W Primary AC Adapter (110V/220V)
* TVout cable w/ SPDIF
* Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 Dual Band 54Mbps MiniPCI Wireless Card
* Internal 56K Modem 1
* Mediterranean Blue Color Kit
* 9Cell 80Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery

Software
* Windows XP Home Edition
* Cyberlinks PowerDVD Software
* Sonic MyDVD and Sonic Digital Media
* MicrosoftWorks 7.0 1
* Dell Media Experience Software
* Dell Image Restore

Discount for Sitek 2005
* Cash Off S$250
* Online Bonus Cash Off S$250
* Free Upgrade to DVD+/RW

I hope my order goes through and I can get my notebook by the end of November.

Hi folks, this is an update on my personal projects. Some of which have been incidentally in development for many years now. Well as you can see if I were to concentrate on any one of them at any one time, I might just have finished atleast one of my projects.

I seriously think it’s a fundamental flaw in my character. But hey, it’s not like I am going to earn money from these projects. It’s my labour of love. So I guess I am going to take a while before I can even finish one of them.

The best part of this whole experience is I am free to dream up as many concepts and ideas that I personally feel is lacked by today’s creative mediums.

Personal Projects

Ramayana, The Legend of Rama (Script)
Currently doing my 4th draft. Trashed my 3rd draft because I felt there were not enough cinematic moments. Yes you heard me right not enough cinematic moments.

S2 (Story)
Exploring character traits of main characters that will appear in S2. Having this ridiculous idea of ending the story in the air, so as the reader can decide what will happen after the catastrophic events that will transpire at the end of S2.

The Tin Machines (Animation)
Scraped original storyline because I seem to draw parallels with my own work, S2. Proposed a new take on The Tin Machines short. Planning to use a gray palette for my art style.

The Lord of Darkness (Story)
A trilogy in works. Longest time in development, I think it was in early 2001 when I had the idea for this. Finally decided that I will narrate the story from the antagonist point of view.

Ideas explored to a certain degree

Little Blue from the Planet Unknown
An in-depth study on the human nature; disguised as a simple children story. Story follows the journey of a tiny one eyed blue alien and his alien dog on their experiences with earthlings.

12 Guards of a Woman.
Short passages on the 12 aspects of a woman. Refer to post dated Friday, January 21, 2005

Trans – Sister Radio.
Based on a book I read of the same name. I am considering writing a radio script based on 4 characters (the woman herself – a polytechnic lecturer, her lover – Kindergarten teacher, her lover’s husband – owner of small but respectable business, and her lover’s daughter) talking about their relationship with an Indian Transsexual.

I am basing my story in Singapore and am going to write this trans-script for my Indian community. I am sure it would be a real eye opener. I have to write it in English and probably hire a Tamil linguist to have it properly translated.

Ideas in conceptual stage
* The Explanatory Doctrine of God’s Behavior
* How to burn democracy to Ashes
* Lion City Kings
* And many more nonsensical ideas that will never see day light.

When man showed his arrogance, God destroyed the Tower of Babel and they all began to speak different languages.

But in His infinite grace, he also created a type of person that would rebuild those bridges, to allow dialogue and the dissemination of human thought.

This man (or woman) who we rarely take the trouble to know his name when we open a foreign book is called the translator.

Although today many translators are badly paid for their work they continue in that task because of their enthusiasm about sharing knowledge.