World Trade Center.

Went to watch “World Trade Center” this morning at West Mall. The movie was OK, and it was not what I expected it to be. I kinda expected it to be those kind of film where you would associate the big American ego with the tragic event, but instead it was something more of the struggle to survive for the people associated with the event, how they tried their very best to stay alive. The thing that struck me about the movie was perhaps that people’s will to live sometimes can be pretty amazing. It was a refreshing break from those 911-related films where they tried to mock the American government. I like the fact that the film was trying to focus on the people who were in the centre of everything when it happened. It’s worth catching – it wasn’t exactly a breathtaking film, but it was still very intriguing and engaging.

Now waiting for “The Departed” next week. They all said Martin Scorsese made a real great movie out from the script of “The Infernal Affairs”, and that certainly sounds very exciting.

ZQJ.

Yeap, today’s ZQJ, which is Zhong Qiu Jie, which is Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon was really bright and big tonight. Nice.

Anyway I was in school today for a CISAA talk by Roger Lim, a SOC (or DISCS as it was then known as) alumni who is the founder and president of his own company Webvisions. I first (and last) met Roger in Shanghai during one of those SSBA Forums and it was nice to hear from him today about being an entrepreneur. He said the four most important things about being an entrepreneur, besides all those that they keep on harping about, were integrity, vision, loving what you do and understanding customer needs. I think that was really very true. Sometimes I guess when people say that you need things like passion and commitment to be an entrepreneur, it may not necessarily be a complete picture. I think the part about understanding customer needs was really essential, cos I think without that, you can have all the commitment and passion in the world and you still can’t get your business on the track because no one would come to you! There were also a lot of other pointers to take back at the end of the talk, and some of them were really things that sometimes we may miss out as we surge forward to try to become entrepreneurs. One of them is “you can take an old idea, repackage it, and sell it as something new” as companies like BreadTalk and Kopitiam are doing exactly those things. What’s so new about selling bread and running a coffee shop? It’s more about packaging an old idea to make it attractive. Sounds simple, but I think that’s damn true. Now maybe I can start thinking about how to package my raw business idea into something attractive. Haha.

After the talk I went over to SRC to watch the netball girls take on SDE – and we came away as winners! It was nice to see the girls playing with more possession and confidence, though I do have some reservations about the referees. I mean, I appreciate that they were really playing fair and going by the book, but to two teams of relative non-players was there really a need to be so strict with some of the calls? I think it ended up only frustrating both teams and made the game to be totally chopped. It was like every 20 seconds there will be a whistle call, and the game was totally not flowing – which probably also explained why the game was such a low-scoring one. But because one of the referees appeared to be pretty cute I’m going to forgive them for that. Haha.

Weekend. Probably means more work for me – though I still want to catch a movie one of these days. Everyone have fun for your weekend!