Me: I don’t think Yasmin Ahmad would like it much that they’re calling her “the director”…
Because, please if you don’t mind, she is so much more than a director. I aspire to her levels of living a life brimmed with joie de vivre and an unswerving faith in god, this world, and being Malaysian.
Yasmin Ahmad was buried early this afternoon. The Malaysian Insider has a report from the funeral.
The Star has been posting tributes to the story teller sent in from around the world.
The New Straits Time carries the obituary.
In the final entry of her blog, published just four days ago, Yasmin posted a piece by Puccini from his Turandot which she was hoping to use in her latest project, “Wasurenagusa”. It’s rather ironic then, to learn that Puccini died before he could complete Turandot. I don’t have a point, I’m just moping..
Ending this with an interview she gave on July 21st, 2009: