morning … i bought Scomi at 0.985 in the morning yesterday, and it dropped to 0.965. Hai ya … why main-main me la? Hmm …

wont spend the time to blog now as i still got loads of work to be done.

Petronas Advertisement: Raya 2006
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Petronas, Telekom, Perodua and big local companies do give us some GOOD advertisements during festive seasons … it is so meaningful, so touching and reminding us of things/people that we take for granted.
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PETRONAS CHINESE NEW YEAR 2008 AD, REUNION DINNER
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Chinese New Year 2007 by Petronas <— yue ding by Guang Liang.
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Petronas CNY 2006 Ad <— please watch this to know the meaning of FAMILY. These days parents and kids living in such a ‘distance’ that it is saddened that we continue to live in denial. I like the ‘proton saga’ fetching his mom part … beautiful!
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筷子 Little Stick - Petronas Chinese New Year Ads
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Iklan Petronas - Lee Yan’s Best Friend <— 1997 friendship beyond race and colour.
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Iklan Petronas - Little Indian Boy <— do we really treasure MERDEKA DAY?
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The love of Tan Hong Ming ->>> Race doesn’t matter when we are young so why does it matter when we are older?

The STAR : Hong Ming-Umi commercial wins three ANDY awards

KUALA LUMPUR: The TV commercial entitled Tan Hong Ming, conceptualised and directed by local advertising creative director and filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad, has won three awards (two gold and one bronze) at the 2008 International ANDY awards in New York.

The commercial has in total won 13 awards worldwide, after making its mark in March at the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival in Pattaya, Thailand, and at the 29th Malaysian Advertising Awards last November.

The commercial was one of a three-part TV campaign in conjunction with Merdeka 2007 for Petronas, produced by Leo Burnett Advertising Sdn Bhd. It was Leo Burnett’s headquarters in Chicago that entered the commercial for the ANDYs.

“I had no idea they had entered it. I was surprised when I received a phone call from a Japanese director friend telling me that I had won three awards at the ANDY awards,” she said yesterday.

The commercial is a cute little vignette about a little Chinese boy, Hong Ming, who has a crush on his Malay schoolmate, Umi Qazrina.

Yasmin recalled that the commercial was not at all difficult to shoot. “A month before the shoot, we contacted the schools in the Klang Valley to set aside students aged between seven to nine whose best friends are from another ethnic group. Out of 46 students, eight stood out – Hong Ming was one of them.”

She had a 15-minute reel of Hong Ming telling her of his crush on his best friend, Umi, which was filmed at Hong Ming’s school in Taman Tun Dr Ismail.

“It was edited down to a 90-second commercial, and is available for viewing at Yasmin’s blog yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com

“People see advertisements as a nuisance, but with Petronas’ Merdeka ads they have become something to look forward to,” she said.

Yasmin admitted that this particular ad has cut through all kinds of barriers, because the two are so real.

“I had lunch with Hong Ming recently and he said his schoolmates still tease him about the ad.”

And yes, Hong Ming and Umi are still best friends.

My Thoughts

Since young, i m lucky that i m mixed with many Malays and Indians friends. I enjoyed being with them, playing with them as i would with other chinese friends. But, when i grew older, when we started to understand discriminations … the feelings changed. I hv tried to understand WHY there is such a clear polarisation in local Uni, where Malays will only mix with Malays, Chinese distancing themselves from the so-called lazy Malays, and Indians with their own groups. Chineses see them as dark(= dirty?) … all these nuisance are from our un-educated biased community.

I m proud to say that i still DO NOT see colour/race when i get to know a friend. In Sabah, another race is Kadazan-dusun. We speak Malay and many chinese-kadazan marriage. I will always treasure my other coloured-malaysian friends …

4.20pm

trading : Jaks 0.75 Ranhill 1.47 Liondiv 1.35 and Scomi 0.95 … hmm … i dont know how to trade. Period.

TEH