Positive influence

I cannot remember the last time I intentionally slept before midnight, before morning. Recess week has culminated to this. A break from reality into another reality that is not really any different, Harrison said over msn the other night. The past week has been a crazy rush, researching for papers, interviewing various people, knocking on the doors of strangers, sitting in the balcony where intimate, personal details were shared at length. Meeting in KFC talking about race, ethnicity, identity, and the state with Daryl, doing readings, and now time has reached a Sunday evening.

There is actually a lot of positivity behind these works done by ex-convicts which I saw sometime during the week. What does rebellion mean in each figurine, what do these faces speak of, what is going to Jurong Birdpark watching the backs of their colourful clothes.

I would say dealing with emotions, getting closer to the self.

I think local films should cover positivity. There has been a lot that has been said and made about people living on the fringes, on urban alienation, on subcultures, and people dealing with pain. When the mass media painted too rosy an image of life, such films captured the other, the alternative that has been neglected and forgotten. Though they were in no way all-encompassing or representative, they seemed real, characters with feelings we can identify with. But it's an overkill. Now, I'm looking for something refreshing, something bright, positively cheerful and most importantly, un-constructed.