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By Catherine Temple
Special to MidWeek
Saturday evening I was working at my computer, when I heard the tinkling of the Feng Shui chimes in my kitchen.
It was a strange sound, as I was alone in the house with my two cats, and my dog, so I got up to investigate and the chimes were gently swinging back and forth. A rather pleasant sound I must say, albeit somewhat disturbing as to the reason.
I then noticed the Tiffany lamp in the entrance hall swinging back and forth, and the same thing for the lamp in the dining room. It struck me we were having an earthquake. Obviously not a big one, but it did go on for more than just a few seconds.
The next morning I read on line that there was a 7.7 in Haida Gwaii. Well now that is something to worry about. Haida Gwaii is only 450 kilometres north of us. Weve all heard the stories about the big one coming our way, or we have seen on the news the devastating effect even a 6.5 can perform on the unsuspecting. Disconcerting, considering this is not the only warning we have received in recent years.
Was it not at this time last year that we felt the ground moving? There wasnt too much reported damage done, the schools were evacuated and a friend of mines chimney separated from her house, that was just a little expensive to rectify, but it certainly was not life threatening. But it could have been.
Take it up a few notches; position the epicenter closer to home on a 7.7, thats a big one, or mirror the devastating earthquake that rocked Strathcona Park, with devastation raining all the way to Read Island in 1946 at 7.2.
When Strathcona Park was shaken and it was not the first time; millions of tons of rock broke away from one of the 7,000 foot peaks of Mount Colonel Foster and avalanched down the side of the mountain, landing in what is now called Landslide Lake. Rock and debris filled the lake and overflowed the banks, creating a fresh water tidal wave that breached the shoreline and thundered down the Elk River Valley, carrying with it thousands of tons of trees, bushes and rock. You can still witness the effects of that quake today. Here we are 60 years later and this episode lays testament to the devastation an earthquake can cause, it also makes for an interesting hike along the Elk River Trail.
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Shaking a reminder of '46 quake
MANILA, Philippines It seems that the feng shui masters prediction about President Benigno Aquino IIIs love life for this year is not that accurate.
During the annual Presidential Forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP), Aquino once again compared his love life or lack of it to sugar-free cola, saying that it is still zero.
It can be recalled that last September, Aquino compared the stages of his love life to Coca-Cola, which varies from regular to light to zero.
Early this year, a local newspaper said the countrys bachelor President went from Coke Zero to kimchi following his short-lived romance with Korean TV personality Grace Lee.
His other past dates include celebrity stylist Liz Uy, stockbroker Len Lopez, and Valenzuela City councilor Shalani Soledad, who is now married to Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo.
Cold Christmas?
Hong Kong-based feng shui master Joseph Chau Kam Shing, who has been practicing feng shui for over 30 years, said last January that Aquino is likely to get hitched this year if he is willing to get married.
This year, he will have a love life if he is willing to get married The First Lady is coming out, Chau said in a press conference.
While most Filipinos thought Lee would be the one, she and Aquino suddenly parted ways, with the President saying that they are just friends.
Just last month, Aquino hinted that he may have a cold Christmas this year, saying that he will only have arroz caldo to keep him warm for the holidays.
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TOKYO The screening of Chinese film Feng Shui will go ahead at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) Monday night as scheduled despite a a last-minute no-show by the film's cinematographer at a press conference and a request to pull it from the lineup.
Director Wang Jing and actor Jiao Gang canceled their visits to Tokyo, and one of the Chinese production companies has asked its screening to be pulled due to recent Chinese-Japanese political tensions over a territorial dispute.
Who sent the statement requesting the withdrawal was unclear, it was unsigned and therefore we didn't take it as an official notification, said TIFF programming director Nobushige Toshima, referring to a communication received on Friday. We have now received an official request to withdraw the film, but we are planning to go ahead with the screening as planned.
Explained Toshima: Yesterday we were told the cinematographer would attend the press conference and answer questions. He is in Japan, and we were talking about how we would handle the press conference. However, he has now told us he needed permission from the production company in order to engage in any promotional activities."
That permission was evidently not forthcoming.
A statement from the young cinematographer was read out at the press conference. I came to TIFF as a cinematographer, as one of the crew who made this film. I'm very sorry, but I'm not able to speak on behalf of the production company. I hope people can still enjoy the film.
Rumors have been circulating that the film was being pulled from the festival by its producers over recent political tensions between China and Japan over a group of small, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The islands, known by the Chinese as Diaoyu, and by the Japanese as Senakaku, are claimed by both sides and have burst into the spotlight again recently after a plan by the Japanese government to buy them from their private owners sparked an angry reaction in China.
However, the film is still scheduled to have its world premiere at TIFF, with the Chinese production companies involved reportedly divided over whether it should bow in Tokyo in the current climate.
TIFF is a film festival, it is not a place for politics, it's a place for cultural exchange," said Toshima in response to a question from The Hollywood Reporter about whether going ahead with the screening despite the request to halt it might further raise tensions at a sensitive time in the relations between China and Japan. "If it's a great film, it doesn't matter if it's from China or not. Both sides signed an agreement to screen the film, and we will show the film according to that agreement.
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TOKYO The screening of Chinese film Feng Shui will go ahead at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) Monday night as scheduled despite a a last-minute no-show by the film's cinematographer at a press conference and a request to pull it from the lineup.
Director Wang Jing and actor Jiao Gang canceled their visits to Tokyo, and one of the Chinese production companies has asked its screening to be pulled due to recent Chinese-Japanese political tensions over a territorial dispute.
Who sent the statement requesting the withdrawal was unclear, it was unsigned and therefore we didn't take it as an official notification, said TIFF programming director Nobushige Toshima, referring to a communication received on Friday. We have now received an official request to withdraw the film, but we are planning to go ahead with the screening as planned.
Explained Toshima: Yesterday we were told the cinematographer would attend the press conference and answer questions. He is in Japan, and we were talking about how we would handle the press conference. However, he has now told us he needed permission from the production company in order to engage in any promotional activities."
That permission was evidently not forthcoming.
A statement from the young cinematographer was read out at the press conference. I came to TIFF as a cinematographer, as one of the crew who made this film. I'm very sorry, but I'm not able to speak on behalf of the production company. I hope people can still enjoy the film.
Rumors have been circulating that the film was being pulled from the festival by its producers over recent political tensions between China and Japan over a group of small, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The islands, known by the Chinese as Diaoyu, and by the Japanese as Senakaku, are claimed by both sides and have burst into the spotlight again recently after a plan by the Japanese government to buy them from their private owners sparked an angry reaction in China.
However, the film is still scheduled to have its world premiere at TIFF, with the Chinese production companies involved reportedly divided over whether it should bow in Tokyo in the current climate.
TIFF is a film festival, it is not a place for politics, it's a place for cultural exchange," said Toshima in response to a question from The Hollywood Reporter about whether going ahead with the screening despite the request to halt it might further raise tensions at a sensitive time in the relations between China and Japan. "If it's a great film, it doesn't matter if it's from China or not. Both sides signed an agreement to screen the film, and we will show the film according to that agreement.
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Tokyo International Film Festival to Screen 'Feng Shui' Despite Request to Withdraw Film
The Bottom Line
A commanding performance from Yang Bingyan anchors director Wang Jings grim assessment of modern city life in mainland China.
Wang Jing
Yan Bingyan, Jiao Gang, Chen Gang
The yoke of poverty proves an enduring burden in Feng Shui, Chinese director Wang Jings compassionate study of a working-class womans struggle to improve her status during the sharp economic rise of the 1990s. Stepping outside his social-issues wheelhouse with this piercing family drama, the director reveals a keen eye for high-stakes interpersonal conflict and the inner torment roiling within ordinary people.
Older audiences will appreciate the measured, conventional storytelling, elevated by a stunning central performance from veteran Beijing-born actress Yang Bingyan, who is rarely off-screen and convincingly roams the emotional gamut. Her devastating portrayal of a woman undone by a preoccupation with success makes this Mandarin-language production a solid booking for further Asia-centric festivals following its premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
With 2009s Invisible Killer, a murder mystery highlighting the destructive power of the internet, and 2010s Vegetate, which took a critical look at Chinas pharmaceutical industry, Wang Jing has built a reputation for taking on pressing social issues. Condemnation of the wrenching social transformations which accompanied the countrys rapid economic growth is common among Chinese auteurs, but here it is used to background a drama that is resolutely individual in its focus.
Li Baoli (Yang) works as a shopkeepers helper in the heavily populated central Chinese city of Wuhan. Shes a tortured soul, racked by anguish and indeterminate rage, which manifests itself in torrents of abuse and scorn heaped upon her husband and her studious young son. In short, shes a shrew.
She continues to berate her milquetoast husband Ma Xuewu (Jiao Gang) even as his steady job as a factory team leader provides them with the means to move into a well-appointed highrise apartment where, she is momentarily pleased to discover, they have the luxury of their own bathroom.
Wu Nans screenplay, based on a novel by Fang Fang, keeps Baolis inner dialogue from us so we are sometimes at as much of a loss to fathom her emotional thrashing about as her family and friends are. Making this protagonist sympathetic is a Herculean task, but Yang (Memory of Love, Close to Me) rises to the challenge, giving us glimpses of the panic behind her agitation and the steely determination she musters just to carry on.
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