Decision-making:
Life’s all about decision-making. Ever chose a route that takes longer for you to reach your destination where you could have chosen a shorter route? Ever see a bus arrive at the bus stop and you start to think whether you should chase for it? Or when a girl pulls out a sword and slash at you, you think of whether to sacrifice one arm to save your life or just die there? For me, I chose to sacrifice an arm. Or rather, I didn’t have a choice…

Making Decision: Sin Cinema

All thanks to Winnie, we, the guys, got super high. Erm, before you readers start to think dirty, especially you Mavis. It all happened like this:

Our dear big sis Winnie told me about the presence of a cinema called Sinema located at somewhere around Dhoby Ghaut. So I went there, pulling my army friend to go with me to search for this place after we watched ‘Harold & Kumar 2’, a show that is so wrecked, stupid and idiotic that it is good. By the way, this place is not a sinful cinema ok? Its ‘sin’ is from ‘Singapore’ and it’s a place that shows all films that are made in Singapore. Regardless of how good the film is, as long as it is local, Sinema will screen it.

Check out their website: http://www.sinema.sg/oldschool/ oh, er, some of their links isn’t working properly…

Decision that make us HIGH:
Ok, so we watched HnK2 at The Cathay (near Plaza Sing), and the location of Sinema is in the vicinity. We know that it is situated at a place called Mount Sophia, so the search begins. We came upon this long flight of stairs beside a construction site somewhere behind Cathay building and if you have read Winnie’s blog, yes, this is the 140 steps stairs (or 138 steps to be exact). However, me and my friend felt that it doesn’t really seems to be the correct route and so we made our way back to Cathay, walked from the other side, followed the sign that says ‘Sophia Road’. (well, Mt Sophia shouldn’t be too far from Sophia Road) The road is actually up slope, and the distance we walked was around 400m until we reached this ulu building that says ‘Old School’ at its entrance. At last, we reached our destination, but instead or rejoicing, our face all turned like this>>> -__________-”’
There is this awfully familiar building under construction, and we made a detour for that building to confirm our doubts. In less than a minute, we saw a flight of stairs going down in right front of us. Guess what? It is the 138stairs…

After recovering from our grief and sorrow, we went back and entered the building. Upon entering, we see nothing but a few people (they should be human…) and the place was practically empty. The search for B1 commence and we walked up and down the stairs, trying to figure out which level is which and finally, we realized that the level we entered is B1 (once again -_____-) and we also managed to find a sign saying ‘this way to Sinema’. Our long journey finally ended as we reached this ulu office in an ulu building located in an ulu place, but something feels awfully familiar again… We walked out of the building and we saw the entrance of Old House:

If only we had walk straight and didn’t turn in, we would not have wasted 10mins circling the insides of the building. And so, the search for Sinema left us once again… ‘High’ isn’t it?

Alas, we made it to the movie screening theatre. Sinema only had one theatre and it has a very homely feel to it. It had sofas (though the back rest is kinda low for me) instead of those individual seats and it is free seating. Another thing which i felt was rather unique is that the guy who sold us the tickets was also the one who checked our tickets upon entry, and it is obvious that he remembered us as the people who went to watch that screening was like less then 10. And so the film started after 2 local production’s trailers screened there (alright, i need not see those stupid advertisements that seem so ridiculous on the big screen). During the midst of movie, a thought struck me. How will I feel if there are less then 10 people who came and watch my film? At first, I thought that I’ll fell sad, but no. So long there is one person that came and support me, i should feel grateful; regardless of whether he/she love or hate it. And if only one person love that film of mine, I think I have succeeded, to a certain extend that is. 1 person’s support is better than none and a small improvement is also better than none. I belief this trip to Sinema made me realized something more indepth in film-making; not so much on physically making the film, but on an emotional level of realization.

Lessons Learnt:

1. Routes that seems intimidating may actually be the easier way.
2. Not every turns are meant to be turned.
3. Film making is a long journey, no matter how much detour we take, so long we keep moving and come back to the main path, it doesn’t matter.

Decision Made:

I may not have the talent, but I shall strive on with my passion. It is not about how far I am from my goal, but how far I have moved towards it. I shall wash away the insult of losing one arm two years, whatever it takes. Yang Guo faces many obstacles and made many detours in his life. Yang Guo is neither just a character in a novel, nor is he just an idol of mine, he is me.

Great, now I am suffering from an identity crisis…

this is not a random picture, it is here because i like its arrangement, imagine naruto(left) and sasuke(right) is me and yang guo, and the fight in the background is my internal self’s struggle. Red depicting my passion, blue representing my dark past… OMG, i think i am thinking too much, lol!