Sunday, July 26, 2009

Yasmin Ahmad, The Storyteller - Forever


She passed away last night at 11.25 pm ...

Only a few weeks back, i was busy googling about her - to see how great her works of art are, to see how she is loved, to see how dedicated she is, how loving and caring she is to the precious kids she has worked with (i still remember how poignantly beautifully she wrote about her trip to Japan with the boy that played "Mukhsin") ...

I never failed to cry watching her works - they never failed to find their way to the core of your soul and make you feel "I am a human after all".

May her Soul rest in peace, for all the goodness she has shown us, for all the greatness she has brought to our nation and in many more ways she has touched our lives - after all we are no stranger to each other's soul.

Al-fatihah to Puan Yasmin Ahmad...

I shall miss her writing, immensely...

~ Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning ~ Chris Cavanaugh

It took her singlehandedly fostering the racial harmony in our Ibu Pertiwi, her stories are pure and innocent and for that her stories nourish our Ibu Pertiwi...

~ To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the applicatin of their art ~ Ben Okri

2 comments:

Oscar the Grouch said...

She is, undoubtedly, one of Malaysia’s best in the art of visual story-telling.

Her last (and final) three works, namely "Tan Hong Ming in Love" (2007), "Family" (2008) and "Funeral" (2009) are my personal favourites, surpassing that of her earlier Petronas works.

Being a father to a little five-year old girl myself; watching "Family", Yasmin’s ad for the Singapore’s Ministry of Community Development, is personally fulfilling, however cliché and sentimental it may be.

Do watch it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66VMFBPq8E

Fi-sha said...

Dear Mr Oscar The Grouch

Indeed, she's the rarest star.

Thanks for sharing sir!