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Buka puasa dengan friends and fans di fukuoka
Me and one of the festival volunteers

Hey gang, its about that time again when we meet up somewhere and berbuka sesama. To check the details please go this link.
Makan bayar sendiri-sendiri (we go dutch ok!) but I will bring some really cool limited sumolah merchandise and Kodok stuff to give away (and some to buy! if you guys wantlah) so check it out buyakasha!!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5789889391

but basically macam ni..

Tarikh: 6th October 2007 (Sabtu)
Tempat: Chitralada Restaurant, Great Eastern Mall, KL
Time: 6.30 ptg
Buffet Price: RM38.80++ per pax

Sesiapa yg nk join, please rsvp to Cik Anne by sending her your name, contact no & no of pax before 4th October 2007 to anne.khalid@gmail.com. Tapi kena cepat pasal seats are quite limited.


Sekarang ni terlalu kerap layan FACEBOOK sampai blog pun di anaktirikan. Alangkah nyamanya jika blog gua boleh ada kat facebook?.... hmmm siapa ada jalan dia? hubungi gua diemail gua selambakodok@gmail.com

Anyway, kalau u guys dapat sama memang kewl.

Power to the People

Adlin Shauki

Moshi! Moshi!

Basikal. Main mode of transportation
Stesyen keretapi near my hotel

Hi there it has been an interesting trip to fukuoka thus far because there have been loads of stuff happening. Besides the film festival there is also a cultural exchange programme with thailand and India.... really cool. So everyday ada dance and other performances there.
El Gala Hall in the background. In the foreground the fukuoka people celebrate asian cultural diversity
Thai meets India in japan
Interview with J-COM tv... out in the open, in front of city hall

Some really great movies from Asia, termasuk juga some from iran and iraq. Memang menarik melihat filem diorang kerana ianya memberi gua sedikit insight on how they think and since their movies are mostly about human issues, a little bit how the people live in that part of the world. Walaupun iraq sedang menghadapi kesusahan gua amat kagum yang karyawan mereka tak give up berkarya. More power to them.
Next to me a member of the Fukuoka film commision yang banyak membantu kita dalam penggambaran SUMO di Jepun.
A Malaysian student in Fukuoka who helped us out during the shoot dulu in a clip they played on J-COM tv live.
Cun jugak presenter jepun yg baju pink ni. nasib baik puasa.
Haha gua dapat elmo untuk Anais!!!
Depa kata ada Typhoon coming .... tak taula macam mana


Sekarang ni gua nak menjemput sesiapa rakyat Malaysia (student or otherwise) yang berada di Fukuoka dan yang belum sempat menonton filem Sumolah untuk datang esok ke El' Gala Hall 17 hb September, pukul 7.00pm. Sebuah lagi filem dari malaysia arahan Deepak Kumaran Menon 'Dancing Bells' akan dimainkan pukul 10.30am on the 18th, juga di El Gala Hall. Sumollah ataupun LET's SUMO (japanese title) juga akan di mainkan on the 21st September di Solaria Cinema 1 at 4.00pm and again on the 24th Sept at the Nishitetsu Hall at 1.15pm

Kodok-kodok di Malaysia kalau u all ada member kat sini... please holla kat depa kalau nak tengok something from home. If they come tomorrow, we can meet up and borak or buka sesama.
Today i watched the presentation of 'Season's Change' from Thailand at the Solaria cinema
Gua dan orang-orang jepun yang mukanya blur.
Aktres filem Thai 'Season's change'
Inilah Solaria Cinema hall 1 yang dipenuhi about 200 people yang menonton filem thai itu
Gua di depan lokasi 'kelab jiwa luka, tempat' gua, pacai dan awie selalu lepak lepas shooting dan berkongsi masaalah. di seberang jalang Nishitetsu Grand Hotel.

Miss my family at home. Hope everyone is ok. My phone charger still belum sampai mama.
Hope the rest of you are all safe and happy. Chow chin chow. Assalamualaikum.

Power to the People

Afdlin

Selamat berpuasa dari Fukuoka, Japan.

Assalamualaikum dan harapnya semua sihat-sihat belaka. Hari ini adalah, hari pembukaan festival filem Fukuoka dan saya berasa amat nervous sekali untuk mempertontonkan filem saya ini kepada masyarakat Jepun, walaupun Sumolah is out of competition. It's been a year since the last time i was in fukuoka and it is nice to be back. Festival filem Fukuoka tahun ini bertemakan 'wanita dan tarian' dan Filem Malaysia yang berada in competition adalah filem Dancing Bells dari Deepak Kumaran Menon. I hope he does well. It will be great for Malaysia.
Fukuoka currently is quite hot and dry but walking down the streets of tenjin in downtown Fukuoka brings back so much fond memories of shooting Sumolah here. The Fukuoka film commission which helped us a lot during the shooting of Sumolah, has invited Sumolah to be presented to the residents of the city of Fukuoka.
Yesterday i met with Mr. Ariga from Touch Planning (himself a film director having recently shot a movie based on a Manga) and he has agreed to be our sales agent in Japan. This is great news for us and Malaysia as it is not easy to get a sales agent to believe in a relatively unknown Malaysian film. Since there is many other forms of deployment of a film besides the cinema here in japan, he believes he can make some headway with our film to also be released on the dvd market which is huge (because there is no piracy in japan) , the internet, broadband tv, video on demand etc. This is exciting news, plus i have also brought some Malaysian movies for him to consider from Mamat Khalid, Ahmad Izham, Bade. I hope to bring more movies in time to come.

Bilik ku yang agak kemas. Amazing.
The Mayor of Fukuoka giving his welcoming speech.
The ballroom of the Solaria Nishitetsu Hotel
Karyawan-karyawan dari seluruh Asia. Festival ini hanya terbuka untuk Asian Filmmakers sahaja.
Gua besama pelakon filem Vietnam 'The White Silk Dress'
Bersama Pegarah dan Producer Jepun bagi filem 'Fuckin' Runaway' (mind my french), Keita Motohashi dan Osamu Yanagisawa
Bersama Festival Director, Hariki Yasuhiro
Bersama Pengarah filem Thai 'Season's Change' Nithiwat Tharatorn
Kyoko my ad-hoc interpreter and Takayama san, what a friendly and funny politician.
The restaurant that i had supper with my new japanese friends.
The many people i've met from the organising committee who have seen the movie, really loves the movie. They actually thought it was very funny. Tonight i had supper with the guy who is running for Mayor of Fukuoka, Mr Takayama Hiromitsu, who seem to have taken a liking to me mainly because I am Malaysian. Most of our conversation revolves around how he is such an admirer of Tun Mahathir and how he loves Malaysia because the people have warm hearts.... hmm.. masih lagi ke?... Are we still like that? Or are we too becoming too money hungry that we have stop being the legendary gentleman of Asia. I will keep you guys updated as the days go by.

Mope power to the people

Afdlin Shauki

Thank you Michi and Tomoko fo helping organise the schedule and also your wonderful contribution to Sumolah. Whatever success it receives is also because of your efforts.

i miss you mia and anais. i want to huggy huggy you and kissy kissy you guys. Mama, what i want cannot write here.

1000 apologies, Pulau Perhentian takde service internet, Here we go baby!

Teaser Poster of the upcoming Los dan faun. KICK ASS
A Tenang moment
Eat, sleep, dive.
Love it!


Hi gang this is afdlin shauki checking in after a long break. I have been going through many new phases in my life and i am sure the future will be great. First of all i'd just like to say that i am sorry for what happened on the 27th August an urgent matter arose, a friend needed help so i had to be there for him, so i spent some time scuba diving on an island with Hans Isaac who is currently not feeling so hot after his breakup with his former girlfriend. Since gua pun baru habis intensif stress di studio shooting actorlympics so bolehlah pi but little that i know on the island especially the resort which i stayed at, which was the Arwana, takde connection internet yang boleh diharap. So i am sorry for the missed date.... but to those of you who had nasty things to say about my absence, i didn't start this blog for you, i started it for myself.. so if you don't like whats happening here there is a billion other blogsites which may interest you. So bring your hate elsewhere, this blog is for happy cheerful people. its people yang berhati bacin macam ni yang make me sick to blog anyways... but hey that's life on the net right.

There is much on my mind lately and the change that i have been talking about is that i don't want to work non-stop like before. You see i am a workaholic and i realise that because i put all i have in everything i do, my relationship with my family suffers. Of course i keep telling myself that the reason i work so hard is for them anyways but the real reason i work so hard is that i fear i won't be able to provide for them and thus lose what we have. But i have realised that i don't want to miss out on my family's life so i will try and be a more balanced person. Although many people want me to start my new projects like BIGFOOT : HANTU SEJARANG GIGI, BAIK PUNYA CILOK 2 & AH-LONG BUKIT BERUNTUNG THE MOVIE, i have decided to just take my time to start it. Watch the market a bit. i have decided to take it easier and put my family more in the front seat. Yes i have been spending more time with wifey and kiddies on a regular basis. Started tutoring Mia (8yrs) on her homework more regularly and helping lil Anais (4yrs) on her writing... because she s a bit shy of me... so far i am enjoying myself and stress levels are at an all time low.

The only thing that i am working on is Los dan Faun. Trying to get it ready so that it can get released by the year's end. I like this movie. it's fun and gila.

I have to say honestly that what happened to SUMOlah was very hard to swallow. It did take the wind out of my sails a bit and i needed to recover from the dissapointing box-office sales. I am a bit weary about making movies on my own again but i do belief if there are still people who believe in my movies i should and must fight for them.

How am i gonna be different from now on.

New Afdlin (the changes i am trying to implement) - 1. One month must have one holiday trip with family and one on my own. 2. Work only if the project is groundbreaking, exciting or interesting enough, must not take precedence over first change. 3. Changing lifestyle - eating habits and exercise in order to be healthier and possibly lose some more weight 4. work with younger talents to impart practical knowledge of film and entertainment industry.

Anyway below are some exclusive pictures which i would like to share with you guys revolving my life this past couple of months
Afdlin being strapped with explosives for 'brave' - this is not al-qaeda related.
Being hoisted up to do the shot. No more toilet breaks for the next couple of hours
hoisted 80 feet on the crane. nak terkencing pun ada
Another angle.
ketika launching brave di Bangkok. All cast and production team
with the hot thai actress Kratae Supaksorn
All the main action heroes and baddies of the film.
The Malaysian press that we brought to Bangkok to visit the set.
Awie's sparring partner on Brave, EX.
Pemandangan Monte Carlo di waktu petang
AT the road which was also the track at monte Carlo one day before the formula one Grand Prix
In Los Angeles in front of the real Oscars at Paramount Studios
The simpsons movie set.
With the production assistant/ interpreter that was taking care of me in Bangkok during Brave.
Team Cuci, posing on the rooftop of Marinara for movie directed about high rise window washers
yes budak gemuk ni did all his own stunts.
Another freakingly amazing view of Monte Carlo.
At the Gare Du Monte Carlo. interesting lighting.
Brad and Angelina yang sempat gua rakamkan di Cannes
Mr Shauki in an Awesome tangkap sendiri punya MC shot.
Pemandangan / view of the towns at the South of France.
for the first time in Cannes Indonesia had her own booth and they managed to generate a lot of interest in their cinema. Malaysia when ah?
Taiwan represent!! at Cannes
Japan represent!
Anak sedara gua yang baru Fahrin. CUTE GILER!
Inilah gambar Pengantin gua. Skandal jangan tak skandal.
This movie should be something else. SEPI is my first serious role in a dramatic movie. Standby tissue satu kotak
with my wonderful co-star, vanidah... what an excellent actress she is and to think dia cakap dia takut nak keje dengan gua... I am not worthy.
With my old pal and also co-star of SEPI, Nasha Aziz

These are some of the things that have been happening in my life and i really do believe that this year will be an exciting one for the entertainment industry. i still fight on eventhough i have taken some heavy blows this year. But i believe that i will bounce back. Not many people are given the same opportunities like me and i am very bersyukur kepadaNYa for all that HE has given.

Today i am leaving for BANGKOK to attend the launch of BRAVE and SUMOlah there. After that a flight straight from Bangkok to PENANG for the Malaysian Film Festival. SUMOlah has got 7 nominations, alhamdulillah insya' allah sangkutlah satu. Tapi kalau tak sangkut pun takpe dapat makan nasi kandaq Line Clear pun dah cukup baik dah. Congrats to Yasmin for Mukhsin, Shumi for Waris Jari Hantu dan Zarina for Chermin you guys deserve all the nominations. A bit upset that Kabil Kushry Kabil Igam not allowed for nominations... just watched it last weekend, not a bad movie... Rusdi Ramli was excellent in it. I think he will win best actor this year.

Power to the People

Afdlin Shauki

PS. Waaa i never realised so many people actually give a shit about my blog sampai marah2 kan. chill out dudes, maybe i'll actually get paid to blog one day. Then i'll blog non-stop ok. :)
PS2. Anne u make me blush.