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Yesterday, I saw a full  page size ads by Air Asia placing a warm gratitude of the late Yasmin Ahmad.

I think it’s another smart brand placement exercise, especially replacing their normal promotional discounted air fares ads which has been running for the last few days.

It’s bad (logically) but it’s nice gesture. Think about it, it’s a such sweet thought of them since nobody ever did before for a filmmaker or creative person except if you’re big tycoon or politician; remember when Badawi becomes PM (can’t remember what year is that) – I was like, can they just give that money  for charity instead (to pay for a full page ads cost would be around something like a cost of one car).

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I’m sad!

Yasmin Ahmad [Kak Min] telah pulang ke rahmatullah pada jam 11.25 mlm, 25 July 2009.

Truthfully, I didn’t know what is my career’s direction when I graduated back in 1999 and one of my friends show me her work on the Suria KLCC marketing booklet (and told me she’s the one who do the Petronas Hari Raya ads on TV) – I said to myself, one day I would be as creative as her and perhaps as bold as her too.

Seeing her work was such inspirational; I never knew her in person but some of my friends who knew her in person always said she’s a nice person to be around with.

Have you watch ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ movie, when Emma Thompson was typing manuscript on how her main character has to die.

That’s how I feel her life was terminated.

It’s like reading a book, its ends without an ending.

She’ll be remembered; Al-Fatihah to Kak Min and condolences to her family.

May her soul rest in peace.

UPDATED [12:59AM - 26 July 2009] – Al-Fatihah to Yasmin Ahmad;

This just shocking, nothing much to be said - Film director Yasmin Ahmad in ICU – lets pray for her well being;

PETALING JAYA: Critically-acclaimed movie and TV commercial director Yasmin Ahmad was admitted to hospital after feeling unwell during a presentation she was giving at TV3.

She was taken to the Intensive Care Unit at the Damansara Specialist Hospital, where she is now on life support and in stable condition.

She is believed to have suffered a stroke and was in a coma for a short while before doctors there successfully revived her.

[I was on her blog this afternoon (after not visiting it for ages), hate all this coincidence sign]

It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you understand how a person would feel when they are alone, it’ll also make you wonder what’s the meaning of sadness and it’s truly make you cry when you start to realise you’re alone and full of sadness although you’re always around with laughters.

Talentime is so Yasmin, by end of the movie I feel so Yasmin inside me.

She tell a story in such, she make me feel how sad it’s to be her (creatively). No matter how creative you’re, no matter how good you’re – if you’re alone – you need people around you – to be appreciated the greatness, the pureness and the loveliness of who you’re.

At least you can say to yourself there is nothing wrong of being you.

It’s so complex, I feel stuck in the chaos of the world of rejection.

“I want to have 100 not 97″ – It’s all about imperfection and imperfection bring anger, anger to achieves something that you know you’ll never get it.

“97 is still good..” – you know.

“She chose a decision she think can make her happy even it was imperfect and Monkey, you’ve to chose a decision that make you happy” – hmmm, I wonder what is Monkey represent in the history of Hinduism?

A Yasmin maybe.

Talentime was not a movie about Malaysian, it’s to me, a movie about Yasmin’s struggles and like all her movie’s characters, she succumb to the feeling of alone although she is around by all the laughters, even if most of us go and watch her movie and appreciate the art of it and to her it’s still all just a tale n time.

A short of 2 hours of laugh, alone, sad and cry of Yasmin Ahmad.

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