{"id":1563,"date":"2009-07-26T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2009-07-29T22:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:05:50","slug":"yasmin-ahmad-at-tedxkl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/26\/yasmin-ahmad-at-tedxkl","title":{"rendered":"Yasmin Ahmad at TEDxKL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yasmin_Ahmad\">Yasmin Ahmad<\/a> passed away recently, and I guess I was lucky to hear her speak. Her inspiring talk was given at TEDxKualaLumpur, on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> June 2009 and in my books, was the <b>best<\/b> talk of TEDxKL.<\/p>\n<p>There is supposed to be video, but that never made it online as of yet, so while this isn&#8217;t a transcript, these are excerpted from my notebook. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you choose an actor? <b>charisma<\/b>. You need to display charisma.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to let go &#8211; &#8220;empty yourself&#8221;. The advice here is to create great stuff, then move back. Its the key to happiness. This is a common mantra in Zen Buddhism.<\/li>\n<li><b>Observe<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Remove one&#8217;s arrogance, and once self importance. You&#8217;ll then be part of something larger.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything about film making. I just empty myself.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Her talk garnered many laughs from the crowd. She didn&#8217;t stick around for TEDxKL much, rushing on to her next gig, but I think her talk certainly moved people in the audience. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had the chance to watch any of her movies yet (I was just a fan of her inter-racial 1Malaysia <i>muhibbah<\/i> styled-ads). Surprised I was that none of them made it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/06\/movies-august-2007\">Malaysian Film Festival<\/a> held two years ago in Melbourne. They&#8217;re high on my to-buy-and-watch list now, so I do hope the local Speedy has her DVDs in stock.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update: (30\/07\/2009)<\/b> Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0_f_3FiiTYk\">video<\/a> from the talk has made it online!<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0_f_3FiiTYk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Yasmin%20Ahmad%20at%20TEDxKL&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F07%2F26%2Fyasmin-ahmad-at-tedxkl&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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