Archive for April, 2007

the DEPARTED one – Remake: Infernal Affairs and The Departed
something to do with my thesis, I find it particularly useful as most I have spoken to has either not watched both films, or are relatively familiar with the HK cinema (like myself)
I find myself disagreeing, mainly because of the fact that I didn’t like The [...]


Testing if this works… « Sathfilms
this pingback should work. So, like Adrian said, the pingbacks for RMIT-blogs wouldn’t work because of the firewall set up on RMIT servers. Other than that there shouldnt be too much of a problem with regards to tracking back of other blogs.


Stuffs to get done this week:

the 1,000 word on top of past week’s 1,000.
Comm Rev readings.
Refine abstract again.
Define research direction.
Set up fourpointfive mailing list.
Comm Rev final essay – figuring out of my topic, and think hard about it. possibly come up with a skeleton.
Shoot the Transient spaces documentary.

- with tasks getting gradually more defined and [...]


The cultures portrayed in Asian films faces the possibility of losing certain cultural narratives when the big Hollywood studios buy the rights to and do actually remake these movies.
The filmmakers content with the use cross-cultural representation of similar messages via the replacement of cultural symbols rooted in the original culture with replacement symbols that are [...]


spurred on by everybody’s suddenly flurry of entries. Just realised I haven’t yet put anything up in the past 9-10 days. So here it goes.
I have:

Updated my abstract once.
Finished my comm rev essay, which is excellent (not the quality of work, but the idea of it being over and done with)
gone to the Great Ocean [...]


I think Adrian’s tasks each week is helping us, me in particular, with planning the monster of a project we’re all supposed to be working on. There is this certain assurance after we go through that planning that the workload wouldn’t seem so daunting. This is the latest installment, a breaking down of tasks into [...]