Musings of an Idiot

Racist Rants and Posters

I am excited about the posters, i got them printed and laminated and they look niceee.. i will be putting them up at britomart early next week...that is also the time when i will be getting my medical results and also utting in the papers for work permit renewal. I will be putting up the posters on the site when Brett returns back to Dunedin.

The intro course finished today and it was also the last day for all editors/directors {well not quite}. All the projects are now on tape, barring a couple of dramas which are still lagging on. Paula's short movie which she did for OSA was nice and powerful. Enjoyed that a lot. Benji is going all nicely with the editing. He has now done the scruff cut and tomorrow we will be having a complete viewing and then decide where to go from there. He is doing some wicked stuff with the movie and it is going in directions that I was hoping for.

And the racist rant that i mentioned in the heading earlier - well it so happened that we went to 'Harbour Arms' - a pub two roads down from the school, to have a drink for Rhys's farewell before he moves down to Wellington. We were having a couple of drinks, before a maori guy who was really pissed, invited himself to our table and started started saying rude things to the ladies on the tables and then went into a violent verbal racist rant. All of us simply left the place to avoid any further embarassment and situation. It really left me more surprised than shaken. All the maori people I know are so generous and welcoming and such nice people that it almost becomes a shame when people like that drunk guy give everyone a bad name. No matter what anyone says there is a bit of racist tension underneath all the normality. Brought back the small incidents of racism which happened at the beginning of 2003. I can't comprehend why people can be so stuck about race or religion. Anyway..all i can say about the whole incident is that it was sad.

South Seas Singapore has been launched - as in the press releases have come out and the building has been finalised as well, so it is an exciting phase in south seas history. Surprisngly the encouragement for such a practical and training orientated course is more in singapore than here in NZ, where the government is being extra hard on private training institutions, making life as difficult as can be. I think NZ tends to go to extremes in each case - same as immigration, first they tightened the knot so much that people stopped applying for immigration altogether and now they have just loosened the rules up so much that they will not get as many good applicants. But anyway who cares for the rantings of a madman.

Off for now. Will tell you when I put up the posters on the website.
Ciao
amit

posted by Amit @ 10:10 PM