Archive for April, 2008
Have enjoyed doing International Screens very much since a long long time ago.
perhaps it is because there are not much people doing this kind of show, therefore there won’t be a very packed cineplex and confirmed tickets. Or perhaps it is because not many people like to do such “boring” movies. there will be no big casts but actors and actresses you don’t even know who they are, there are no stunning visual effects that aw the shit out of you. however, i love doing it, because these shows are usually the kind of shows that can set your mind thinking about the meaning behind the scripts.
Based on the original novel by Khaled Hosseini, it speaks of the tale of 2 boys, from 2 different family backgrounds, but grew up together under the same roof. however, the tie was soon to be broken when one of the boys betrayed his childhood friend. there was a twist when the story goes about 3/4, and suddenly everything makes sense. at the same time, i guess you will feel a punch hitting your heart, and then tears started to fill your eyes. if you can’t wait for the movie, just click on the spoiler below to read the full synopsis from imdb.com
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The two main characters of the story are Amir, a well-to-do Afghan boy, and Hassan, a Hazara the son of Amir’s father’s servant, Ali. The boys spend their days in a peaceful Kabul, kite fighting, roaming the streets and being boys. Amirs father, Baba, loves both the boys, but seems often to favor Hassan for being more manly. He is critical of Amir. Amirs mother died in childbirth, and Amir fears his father blames him for his mothers death. However, he has a kind father figure in the form of Rahim Khan, Babas friend, who understands Amir better, and is supportive of his interest in writing stories.
A notoriously violent older boy with Nazi sympathies, Assef, blames Amir for socializing with a Hazara, according to Assef an inferior race that should only live in Hazarajat. He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot. Assef and his henchmen back off, but Assef says he will take revenge.
Hassan is a “kite runner” for Amir, he runs to fetch kites Amir has defeated by cutting their strings. He knows where the kite will land without even seeing it. One triumphant day, Amir wins the local tournament, and finally Baba’s praise. Hassan goes to run the last cut kite, a great trophy, for Amir saying “For you, a thousand times over.” Unfortunately, Hassan runs into Assef and his two henchmen. Hassan refuses to give up Amir’s kite, so Assef extracts his revenge, assaulting and anally raping him. Wondering why Hassan is taking so long, Amir searches for Hassan and hides when he hears Assef’s voice. He witnesses what happens to Hassan but is too scared to help him. Afterwards, for some time Hassan and Amir keep a distance from each other. When Hassan wants to pick up their friendship again Amir holds it off. When people ask what is the matter, Amir reacts indifferently. He feels ashamed, and is frustrated by Hassan’s saint-like behavior and worries that Baba loves Hassan more, and would love him even more if he knew what happened to Hassan and Amir’s cowardly inaction.
To force Hassan to leave, Amir frames him as a thief, and Hassan falsely confesses. Baba forgives him, despite the fact that, as he explained earlier, he believes that “there is no act more wretched than stealing”. Hassan and his father Ali, to Baba’s extreme sorrow, leave anyway. Hassan’s departure frees Amir of the daily reminder of his cowardice and betrayal, but he still lives in their shadow.
A short while later, the Russians invade Afghanistan; Amir and Baba escape to Peshawar, Pakistan and then to Fremont, California, where Amir and Baba, who lived in luxury in an expensive mansion in Afghanistan, settle in a run-down apartment and Baba begins work at a gas station. Amir eventually takes classes at a local community college to develop his writing skills. Every Sunday, Baba and Amir make extra money selling used goods at a flea market in San Jose. There, Amir meets Soraya Taheri and her family; Soraya’s father has contempt of Amir’s literary aspiration. Baba has lung cancer but is still capable to do Amir a big favor: he asks Soraya’s father permission for Amir to marry her. He agrees and the two marry. Shortly thereafter Baba dies. Amir and Soraya learn that they cannot have children.
Amir embarks on a successful career as a novelist. Fifteen years after they said goodbye, Amir receives a call from Rahim Khan, who is dying from an illness, who asks him to come to Pakistan. He enigmatically tells Amir “there is a way to be good again”. Amir goes.
From Rahim Khan, Amir learns the fates of Ali and Hassan. Ali was killed by a land mine. Hassan had a wife and a son, named Sohrab, and had returned to Babas house as a caretaker at Rahim Khans request. One day the Taliban ordered him to give it up and leave, but he refused, and was murdered, along with his wife. And the secret truth about Hassan is that Ali was not his father. He is the son of Baba, and Amir’s half-brother. Finally, Rahim Khan reveals that the true reason he has called Amir to Pakistan is to go to Kabul to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from an orphanage.
Amir returns to Taliban-controlled Kabul with a guide, Farid, and search for Sohrab at the orphanage. However, he does not find Sohrab there. The director of the orphanage tells them that a Taliban official has recently taken him. He tells him to go to a football match and the man with the sunglasses will be the man who took Sohrab.
Amir goes and secures an appointment with him at his home. There he finds out that the Taliban official is actually his childhood nemesis Assef. Sohrab is made to dance dressed in women’s clothes, and it seems Assef might have been sexually assaulting him (Sohrab later says: “I’m so dirty and full of sin. The bad man and the other two did things to me”). Assef agrees to relinquish him, but only if Amir can beat him in a fight to death, with Sohrab as the prize. Assef brutally beats Amir, but Amir is saved when Sohrab uses his slingshot to shoot out Assef’s left eye, fulfilling the threat his father had made years before.
Amir tells Sohrab of his plans to take him back to America and possibly adopt him, and promises that he will never be sent to an orphanage again. Sohrab is emotionally damaged and refuses to speak. This continues on for about a year until his frozen emotions are temporarily thawed when Amir reminisces about his father, Hassan, while kite flying. Amir shows off some of Hassans tricks, and Sohrab begins to interact with Amir again. In the end Sohrab only shows a lopsided smile, but Amir takes to it with all his heart as he runs the kite for Sohrab, saying, “For you, a thousand times over.” This is a play on the last words spoken to Amir by Hassan before the rape, and denotes the sense of atonement that surrounds the novel
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this is the second movie that made me shed my tears, after Braveheart. so, to me i think it’s really a damn good movie which noone should miss. i am looking forward for Columbia Picture’s upcoming movie that is based on Khaled Hosseini’s second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. however, the movie is yet to be filmed.
A movie with a twist, a tear shedding ending, a bunch of personality actors, and a documentary like filming technique.
damn, it’s a good movie you shouldn’t miss..
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Now Listening: Flyleaf - I’m So Sick
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Posted by: ahk3n in Music, lyrics
Have always love Bon Jovi for his solid voice, meaningful lyrics and power music.
dedicate this one to you, one of my favorites from him.
finally, i’ve found someone whom i can dedicate this song to.. it’s exactly what i was trying to say but couldn’t say yesterday, and when i was using the simplest and most stupid words, whether or not it conveyed the message, i meant it all, with my fullest and most sincere heart…
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Thank You, for loving me…
Thank You For Loving Me
It’s hard for me to say the things
I want to say sometimes
There’s no one here but you and me
And that broken old street light
Lock the doors
We’ll leave the world outside
All I’ve got to give to you
Are these five words tonight
[Chorus:]
Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn’t see
For parting my lips
When I couldn’t breathe
Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me
I never knew I had a dream
Until that dream was you
When I look into your eyes
The sky’s a different blue
Cross my heart
I wear no disguise
If I tried, you’d make believe
That you believed my lies
[Chorus:]
Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn’t see
For parting my lips
When I couldn’t breathe
Thank you for loving me
You pick me up when I fall down
You ring the bell before they count me out
If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me
[Solo]
Lock the doors
We’ll leave the world outside
All I’ve got to give to you
Are these five words tonight
[Chorus:]
Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn’t see
You parted my lips
When I couldn’t breathe
Thank you for loving me
When I couldn’t fly
Oh, you gave me wings
You parted my lips
When I couldn’t breathe
Thank you for loving me
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Posted by: ahk3n in Music, lyrics
謝謝讓我愛上你
作曲:蔡科俊.Again | 填詞:陳樂融
夜已深 心很靜 看著你 甜美 努力 唯一
我耍賴 我逃離 我相信 不變是你守候背影
慚愧我曾經差點放棄 無愧是你
謝謝讓我愛上你 生命再多委屈 你不離不棄
謝謝讓我牽著你手心 太美麗的熟悉 一生約定
我偶爾沒把握 夠資格 走完這四季
謝謝讓我牽著你手心 太美麗的熟悉
一生約定 走下去
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got this piece of info while i was doing my usual morning reading…
it’s a piece of info abt quitting smoking
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the article states that: A successful attempt to quit smoking may depend on where women are in their monthly cycle, say scientists.
if menstrual cycle and hormone levels do affect the success rate of quitting.
so, how are guys going to quit smoking !!???
so, how am i gonna quit smoking?
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ermm….
i think that’s a damn blady good reason for me to not quitting..
wheeee ~
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Now Listening: Corinne Bailey Rae - Call me When You Get This
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this is the second time Malaysia is honored to host a leg for the Olympic torch.

WELCOME, TORCH OF OLYMPIC..
i’m just wondering how many Pro-Tibetan independence activists are there in Malaysia and what are they going to do when the torch is on its way to KLCC.. let’s hope everything is going as plan when the torch travels from Dataran Merdeka to KLCC Twin Towers.
My personal point of view is: Olympic is for the world, politics, Please stay the fuck out…
for more news, please click HERE
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Now Listening: MYMP - Beauty and Madness
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Posted by: ahk3n in Thoughts
The moment you were in my arms.
all i felt, was the warmth i will need to get used to,
for it will be the warmth i am going to spend a lifetime with..
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The moment your lips were on mine.
all i felt, was passion and love that sparks life which needs all my giving.
for it will be the only pair of lips i am going to kiss for the rest of my days.
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The moment you circled me with your hands.
all i felt, was trust, love and dependencies
i will remember the scent of yours that embalmed the air around us.
for it will be the only scent which i could pick up, no matter how bad my sinus is going to be.
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i wondered, were you listening to what my heart was saying when your lay your ears on my chest.
if you were..
please, tell me what did it say.
did it say “I am all yours now, please handle with care”?
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good night, my little sweet fairy
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Now Listening: Corinne Bailey Rae - Like a Star
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Posted by: ahk3n in Music, lyrics
Didn’t know you have a taste for Corinne’s songs as well, i’ve been listening to her for quite a while as her R&B is somewhat different from others, and for the fact that she wrote most of the pieces herself. a very talented lady.
You told me how special this song is to us. somehow, it’ll definitely be on the audio when we were pouring each other’s heart.
and because, you said it says the words you want to say.
so, here you go, i’m gonna put it up here, just for you. as well as everyone else who loves Corinne Bailey Rae.
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on another note, i would also love to take this opportunity to send the deepest condolence to Corinne for the departure of her beloved husband on the 28th March 2008, may he rest in peace.
Corinne Bailey Rae - Like a Star
Just like a star across my sky,
just like an angel off the page,
you have appeared to my life,
feel like I’ll never be the same,
just like a song in my heart,
just like oil on my hands,
Honor to love you
Still i wonder why it is,
I don’t argue like this,
with anyone but you,
we do it all the time,
blowing out my mind,
You’ve got this look i can’t describe,
you make me feel I’m alive,
when everything else is au fait,
without a doubt you’re on my side,
heaven has been away too long,
can’t find the words to write this song of your love,
Still i wonder why it is,
I don’t argue like this,
with anyone but you,
we do it all the time,
blowing out my mind,
Now i have come to understand,
the way it is,
It’s not a secret anymore,
’cause we’ve been through that before,
from tonight I know that you’re the only one,
I’ve been confused and in the dark,
now I understand,
Yeah-yeah
Oooh……Ooohhhh..
I wonder why it is,
I don’t argue like this,
with anyone but you,
I wonder why it is,
I wont let my guard down,
for anyone but you
we do it all the time,
blowing out my mind,
Just like a star across my sky,
just like an angel off the page,
you have appeared to my life,
feel like I’ll never be the same,
just like a song in my heart,
just like oil on my hands.
Now Listening: Corinne Bailey Rae - Like a Star
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Posted by: ahk3n in Thoughts
it is today, that i’ll remember for the rest of my days..
because it is today, April 19th 2008, at 2am.
I am reborn, revived by love, the love that she’d surged me.
It is your love that has just made me the luckiest man in the world.
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I’m sorry, I never realize reaching out my hand has become such a difficult task. because this time, it was me who was shivering..
for the reason i understand at the moment i reached out my hand to catch yours, i am surrendering myself, to you, to life, and to a future that no longer consists of myself only, but US. it is a very scary thought, to be honest.
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though shivering, the fact is, my dearest and beloved Ms. Right, i WILL NOT regret for reaching out my hand at all…
for i can still feel your warmth even now..
not only that, but your love, your heart, your trust as well as your future.
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Thank You very much Ms. Right, for giving me your hand.
a pair of hands i shalt swear to heaven and earth that i will cherish for as long as i can still breath..
for it will be the pair of hands i will want to hold tight to mine while walking down the aisle to the other end of the red carpet.
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to all my brothers and sisters, please do me a big favor..
please give me the tightest slap you can if i ever strayed off course along the way.
because the last thing i ever wanted is to disappoint Ms. Right.
for making her happy is my lifetime’s responsibility now.
thank you brothers, thank you sisters..
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It is today, which i will never forget.
for it is the first day we hold each other tight, hand in hand..
for it is the first day our journey of a lifetime begins…
and, i guess the time has finally come to be a real responsible man for saying this:
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I LOVE YOU..
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Now listening: Corrine Bailey Rae - Like A Star
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Posted by: ahk3n in Thoughts
It’s one of those days where you actually wake up in the morning with a smile on your face
today was one of the best mornings i’ve ever had for a very long while.
because i woke up in a smile, with the images of you still fresh from my dream.
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you know?
i’ve not talked to someone whom i have deep feelings for, with such an opened heart, mind you, not even to her.
that was one of the best face to face and heart to heart conversation one can ever have with someone you are so crazy over.
truthfully, what we had yesterday night was the sweetest, yet intellectual conversation, with a lot of opinions and views exchanged, as well as naughty and kiddo jokes in between.. and most important of all, the words of supports and encouragements from you. by now, you should know how much they meant to me. to me, the most crucial link between two person ever is the ability of the 2 person putting everything on the table and chat over it. you know? even if it was just a simple conversation session at the mamak stall, the most important part is about us, talking about just everything, intellectually but not forgetting to have fun during the conversation.
oh, and i think i still haven’t told you yet, your eyes are still the most beautiful pair of eyes i’ve ever seen. it’s so impossible to move my eyes away from yours. that pair of eyes, they speak, and they speak of only one language. love it is.
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Thank you very much, Ms. Right…
though it’s still a long way ahead, i’m so grateful that you’re willing to slow down your pace just for me to catch up.
you said you’re lucky, i doubt it..
why? because the one thing i’m very sure is that, i think i’m luckier
and because what you’ve told me yesterday night just made me the luckiest man in the world.
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and that pair of shivering hands when i first touched with mine in the car?
i’ve just promised myself to do whatever it takes so that i can hold it, for the rest of my days.
then one day, down the aisle of the red carpet, not shivering anymore but holding tight to mine…
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i realized, no matter how bad the weather is during the monsoon season..
The sun, still shines…
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Now Listening: James Blunt - I’m Yours
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只一步而已, 有那麼困難嗎?
對…
就是那麼難..
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因為這一步因妳而踏出…
也因為這一步, 有毀了我對愛情所有憧憬的可能…
更因為這一步, 決定了妳的幸福…
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Now Listening: 蔡建雅 - 空白格
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