Goodbye, Yasmin

Yasmin Ahmad
July 1, 1958 - July 25, 2009

Hari Koperasi

After going through a very weird day, I feel like writing something random... uhh... haiku! Let's see what comes up.

Won't you come and see,
We got talents?
I never knew.



The judges!
Down and down and down you go,
Never satisfied.



Covered with the flowers,
The sweet-smelling perfumes,
On this table of ours.



Beautiful sisters,
We all adore you, but --
There's something on your arms!



After barbecuing --
chickens, how full they feel,
as it fills their stomachs!



Dark clouds please hurry,
come down with rain to end this,
I wanna go home.



Thank you for reading my random haiku -- so plural would be 'haikus' right?

My birthday

*applause*

The owner of the last white rose (cont'd)

There was no owner. I threw the last rose away. Finding the owner was tough.

Where the lines overlap

You know the state you are in when you are at the fringe of a dream; not quite asleep and not awake yet? This is something like that.

The last days of the holiday. You just can't get over it!

This One Future

President Barack Obama ended his speech at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt today with this for us to think of:

"We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written. The Holy Quran tells us, Mankind, we have created you male and a female. And we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.

The Talmud tells us, The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace.

The Holy Bible tells us, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now that must be our work here on Earth."

This man speaks of a future for all mankind. If what has been written is true and will happen, then this future may be impossible. But it is the one future I sought after. The one future I won't let you disagree with.

My play was selected for the Short+Sweet Festival Malaysia 2009

Short+Sweet is a festival of theatres tha started out in Australia. It had grown exponentially and now had spread to Asia, and finally came to Malaysia and Singapore.

The good news is... I received this mail:

"Dear Muhaimin,

Congratulations! Your 10 minute play 'While She Lasts' has been selected as a staged reading.
We will be posting this information on our S+S website, and meeting up with you and the directors week commencing June 22nd.
Thanks for responding to our call for writers.

Faridah Merican
S+S Festival Director"

It's only for a staged reading, not a real peformance. But to me, that is BIG! I mean, how often is your script got accepted for anything? Ask me. I should know. And now, someone finally open up for my story.

The bad news is... The world will never see the day my parents let me go to one of these festivals.

Whatever.