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 I was back in Bristol last week for the Encounters Short Film Festival. Keluar Baris was in competition in the International Panorama section. On top of seeing some really good films at the festival, it was also a very nice reunion of friends.    I arrived on the morning of the 20th, and immediately had a screening that night. Talk about jet-lag torture. Yuni arrived a day before me and we met at the bus station. We had arranged to share a room to save some money. It was such a pleasant surprise when I found out on facebook that Marc and Anna's new film Cabaret Kadne was programmed in the same screening as Keluar Baris! Marc and Anna are from Barcelona, but I first met them in Germany two years ago at a student film festival. Later that year, I met them again in Barcelona when Sharon and I visited.  It was funny cos both of them actually appeared in Keluar Baris! haha! Daryl was scrolling through photos of them on his laptop when Father came into the room. And I never managed to ask for permission from them. heh. Oh well.. Anna lost so much weight over the past year, I couldn't recognise her! She shed a whopping 40kg! That's almost how much Yuni weighs! All she did was eat less and attend spinning classes. heh. She looks so much healthier now.   The other reunion was with Anthony! His film Haze was also in competition in the same section. He didn't have to suffer from jet-lag cos he came from London, where he is doing his masters at the prestigious National Film & Television School. Yuni and I, on the other hand, were constantly dozing off at screenings. Couldn't help it.. a 7pm screening equals 3am in Singapore.   Anyway on the last day, Yuni, Anthony, his girlfriend and I went to do the one touristic thing to do in Bristol: visit the SS Great Britain. Launched in 1843 as the largest vessel afloat, this was the first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull and a screw propeller. blah blah engineering. Okay lah.. it was very interesting, especially when I got to listen to diary accounts of the immigrants who went on it.    I left Bristol on the morning of 23rd to spend a night in London. Was supposed to have dinner with the Singapore gang there one.. but David Lee and Brian Chia couldn't make it, and there was some miscommunication with Joe Lee, so I ended up meeting only Vince and Brian Tan.  It was a lovely evening anyway. We had dinner near Oxford Street, then drinks at Soho. I was putting up at Vince's Kelvin Ang's place. I had intended to visit a museum for half a day, but I woke up too late. So I just walked around nearby Portobello Road and Notting Hill with Vince.   Went inside the Paul Smith boutique at Notting Hill. Couldn't afford anything lah.. even with the very affordable pound. Saving up for NYC.  By the early afternoon, I was on my way across London lugging winter clothes, pineapple tarts and boxes of Prima Taste, ready to cross the Atlantic! Onward to New York!  Richard Branson, bring me there!!! woohoo! Post a comment in response: |
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