Living Quietly

Kafka said, "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

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I'm back to KL. Arrived this morning at 7am. Malaysia is brighter and warmer than what I remember, but foods are great as ever.

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What do I know.

I always feel I live clumsily. Clumsy is the word. I suppose.

I thought I would learn by age. When I get older, I would eventually understand the meaning of all these and find a way to live.

I am 29.

I often talk about my older age with certain romanticism. An age when you are wiser and more content. You have done whatever you want to do, and you live quietly, examine your own past. You would be more at ease with yourself. And also with the rest of your own kind.

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Tan Chui Mui was born 9 OCT 1978 in Sungai Ular, a small fishing village in Kuantan, Malaysia.

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Mui, after watching a film in Cinematheque, Paris.

Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui has been selected for the 14th session of Cinefondation Cannes Residency, along with 5 other young filmmakers from around the world. Ahe would be developing her new script, LIVING QUIETLY. She is the only representative selected from Asia. The residency is organised by the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

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