Yes! Finally! It's warm! And once again I am procrastinating!

No prize for the smart person who guessed that I have an essay to write again!

Man my page is so boring. I have a dream... a dream to make my blog beautiful.... Okay set. Holiday that time I make nice nice.

First off, thank you to those who visit my blog (yes... my audience of three).... myself, Soon Seng and I. I actually visit my blog to use the link to the other blogs on my links.

I just drank ipoh white coffee... it's really nice and yummm but when I drink it on days that I cannot handle caffeine I get major headache and this "zing" that I cannot describe.

Secondly, I wanted to share with everyone what I will be writing this weekend.

It's really quite interesting. And I am also really passionate about the subject matter.

I have been researching and writing for my Field Study (mini thesis) for three months now. After contemplating for 2 years what my subject should be, I had a smack-my-own-forehead moment... CINEMA! Duuuuh....

My piece on Chinese Cinema is also about culture. About how film critics in the West read or interpret Zhang Yimou's films.

Zhang Yimou was the dude that art directed the Olympics performance. The same dude who did Hero and also the same dude who did House of Flying Daggers.

However I am concentrating more on the films he did in the 80s and 90s like Red Sorghum, Judou and Raise the Red Lantern. These films are really fascinating and extremely self-orientalising. Beautiful nontheless.

His films from that time have a certain je ne sais  quoi in its cinematography which makes his films perpetually beautiful despite the sometimes harsh and cold mise-en-scene like in Raise the Red Lantern.

His contemporary films still have the same beauty however I feel that all that CGI he used was overkill.

Exciting! Except I have to write and rewrite everything in three weeks. Tres stress!

My other essay isn't quite as exciting... a policy analysis of the AUSAID's White Paper. Yawn!