Last weekend (25-26th July) - i was all bz, tied up and excited. My new training room would be utilised for the first time - by a client from Sudan for a 4 days training. In the excitement of it all- i did not catch up on the latest news what so ever, especially the news of the demise of arwah Yasmin Ahmad. It was only on Wednesday (29th) that I'm aware of the news and of course along with it are other related but not "not so nice" stories.
I never really knew Yasmin - as the matter of fact, I think our path nearly crossed some 16 years back, when someone I knew, way back then- ask me "Do you want to get to know this person by the name of Yasmin Ahmad?" after a long sharing about my thinking about life and all that.
I never really give much thought about it until the last few days. I am a person who finds things that are uncommon- included people- very intriguing. Arwah Yasmin is uncommon, rare and interesting. I don't care much about the gender issue or even then controversial issues with regard to her movies. What i find intriguing is her thinking, her psyche...I spent some time going through some videos of her sharing her thoughts, her principles on lots of things as well reading write ups about her -by people who knew and have crossed paths with her.
She, to me, seems like a multiple award winning director- who just didn't seem to have this air-of-i-am-important, humble, sincere (definitely intelligent and super duper creative).
Other than that- i'm afraid i am not qualified to judge her, and i don't think others too.
The One and Only who has the authority to do judgement of Yasmin's and our doings is- The Most Compassionate, The Most Knowing, The Most Merciful of All- Allah SWT.
In one of the videos - she talked about making movies lis ike a Weaver - you create something by weaving different elements / things. Interesting...Weaver...(hmmm..great minds think a like...)
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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