Goodbye Yasmin

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SmuPi4NtuOI/AAAAAAAAHBY/Scj-YcKUD9U/s1600-h/yasminahmad.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SmuPi4NtuOI/AAAAAAAAHBY/Scj-YcKUD9U/s400/yasminahmad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362537610682939618" border="0" //ablockquote style="font-style: italic;"you mustn't be afraid of deathbr /you're a deathless soulbr /you can't be kept in a dark gravebr /you're filled with God's glowspan style="font-style: italic;"br /br /Rumi/spanbr //blockquoteMy heart breaks today at hearing that a href="http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/20090725074453/Article/index_html"Yasmin Ahmad passed away/a last night. I did not know her well personally but like many people reading this - I felt that I close to her through her films and writings.br /br /She was a truly beautiful individual, a speaker of the common sense that needed to be spoken, and an award-winning filmmaker of immense talent. She portrayed with great warmth a multi-lingual, multi-racial Malaysia in her work and broke down barriers that hadn't ought to exist but sadly do.br /br /(Here's one of her advertisements, made for the 50th Merdeka Day, showing her work in miniature. If kids can get it right, why can't we? :)br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rAKPwjBd4uMamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rAKPwjBd4uMamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objecta onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SmubAcOdHaI/AAAAAAAAHBg/i30LmnYtn_I/s1600-h/yasminahmadmovies.jpg"/a br /br /She talked of the need for Malaysians a href="http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2005/03/telling-tales.html"to tell their stories/a and perhaps that is the best way that we can honour her memory, especially if we can summon the same kind of courage, honesty and love. For although we did not have Yasmin with us for anywhere near long enough, there was so much that she taught us that we carry forward.br /br /Al-Fatihah, Yasmin.br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Postscript :/spanbr /br /fooie on a href=" http://foolamak.com/fooie/irreplaceable-yasmin-ahmad"Yasmin the irreplaceable/a. Zedeck Siew a href="http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2009/07/26/the-storyteller/"on Yasmin the Storyteller/a. Adflin a href=" http://afdlinshauki.blogspot.com/2009/07/kehilangan-al-fatihah.html"can't believe it/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-5107164999104743937?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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