Life is taking an amazing turn for me this year, and I'm getting more and more excited every day. I've already jumped right in to work with the Sumo-lah! team on Sunday. And while feeling overwhelmed by the amount of homework I've to catch up on - my stack of papers including the film script I have to read is piling to almost 3 inches high now! - I feel liberated and ready to take on the challenges ahead of me!

The feeling of liberation doesn't just extend to my creative freedom, but also my web presence here which I am now allowed more freedom to reveal myself. As some of you would've read, my previous employer had barred me from talking about anything related to my work in my blog, and I had to follow on with trying not to reveal even my name.

But with Sumo-lah!, almost everyone in the team has a blog and so does the director! It's just awesome that Afdlin believes in how the web is a media form in its own right and that blogs are a wonderful tool to attract fans to a first hand production experience. Besides, the entertainment industry, namely filmmaking in this case, is about the people who watch it and without our audience, who do we have to show it to anyway?

So for information sake, I am a Line Producer with the film. And though my six years of television production has mainly been creative (from writing to directing), this challenge of assisting in producing such an amazing film is something I'm thoroughly excited about! It's something I haven't officially done before in either capacity. It makes it even more worthwhile knowing that everyone in the team has the same drive and passion for work. This in its entirety is already motivating and rejuvenating the previously burnt out artist in me.