Anything new or exciting lately?

Nothing really except a pair of new shoes that sister send.

Nike 6.0

Totally preoccupied by work these days.

Kind of getting tough, am i really supposed to be doing this or something better?

Bad news: India bans smoking in public places. The legislation represents the world’s biggest smoking ban and the nation’s 120 million smokers could be landed with a 200 rupee fine (about $5 USD) if they fail to comply with the law.

Although India already had anti-smoking laws forbidding smoking in college campuses, bars and discos since 2003, these were widely ignored.

The latest legislation seeks to strengthen the rules and extend them so that smokers can only light up in their own homes, in parks or on the roadside, and the government is hopeful that its citizens will be sufficiently deterred by the threat of a fine.

Finally managed to start writing the treatment for Ordinary lives in little Tibet. It’s been more than six months since I finished school in Korea and returned back to India. I have been trudging mostly with work for White Crane Films for the past months that I hardly get any time to write for myself. I guess its going to be this way for some time.

Anyways it’s a good thing that I at least got to a start somehow. The three characters in the story, Yangchen, Jigdel and Tenor are all interesting to me at this point. And in the story so far, the three odd characters are slowly beginning to move closer towards each other.

Some good news – friend Boo Junfeng from Singapore got selected for the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) for his film Sand Castle and friend Edwin from Indonesia has his debut feature Blind Pig Wants to Fly at this year’s Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). It’s such a shame I am not there at this year’s fest. Friend Hyejung has these big plans to hang out at the beaches in Pusan with Junfeng and Edwin.

Trailer: Blind Pig Wants to Fly

Ngatso Bhod Kyi Drokpa…

Rangzen…

At a freedom concert in Seoul, Korean talents and artists speak for TIbet. Monsori, who’s famous for films like Oasis and Family Ties says, what is happening in Tibet is not acceptable anywhere in this world.

Finally my notebook started giving me warnings about lack of space. I realized I have not checked the space availability for such a long time because of all the running around I have been doing for work. Anyways I managed to transfer a lot of files onto my external hard drive. This also gave me an excuse to look and sort a lot of the old pictures that I have taken. Here are some from February in Seoul during a farewell dinner with my school friends. The videos are darn funny. We were in a Karaoke and June gave us the biggest surprise of our lives. ^_^

June and her Conga

A Tibetan Pilgrim – Travels through the Vanishing Himalayas

Photographs by Tenzing Paljor

20 – 27 August 2008 at the India International Center

An exhibition of photographs on Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Kinnaur, Spiti, Ladakh and Zanskar

Opening on Tuesday, 19th August at 18:30 hrs